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English: Photographers caption: "The 1763 Monument on Square of the Revolution in Georgetown, Guyana, was designed by local artist Philip Moore. It commemorates Cuffy, leader of the 1763 slave rebellion on the Bernice sugar plantation."
1763 Monument on Square of the Revolution in Georgetown, Guyana, designed by Guyanese artist Philip Moore. Cuffy, also known as Kofi Badu, [1] also spelled as Coffij, Coffy, Cuffy, Kofi, or Koffi (died in 1763), was an African Akan man who was captured in West Africa and stolen for slavery to work on the plantations of the Dutch colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana.
The Berbice Rebellion was a slave rebellion in Guyana [3] that began on 23 February 1763 [2] and lasted to December, with leaders including Coffij.The first major slave revolt in South America, [4] it is seen as a major event in Guyana's anti-colonial struggles, and when Guyana became a republic in 1970 the state declared 23 February as a day to commemorate the start of the Berbice slave revolt.
Here on October 8, 1763, John Snyder and his wife, Anna Margaret Wotring, with their three children, and Jacob Alleman's wife and child were killed by Indians. Their bodies were buried 200 yards south of this spot. John Jacob Mickley's children, Henry and Barbara, killed the same day, were buried half a mile to the east.
The Salon of 1763 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris. It was held during the Ancien Régime era and was overseen by the Académie Royale. Staged during the reign of Louis XV it took place the same years as the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years War. Many of the works featured were Rococo in style.
On April 7, 2001, the Umana Yana, along with the African Liberation Monument, was gazetted as one of Guyana's National Monuments. [2] "Umana Yana" is a Wai-Wai word meaning "Meeting place of the people". [1] Renovated in 2010, on September 9, 2014 the Umana Yana was gutted by fire and destroyed.
A monument with a plaque that reads “The Very Large Donald J. Trump Monument” recently erected in the French Hill Section of the Donald J. Trump State Park Nov. 4, 2024 in Yorktown Heights, NY.
Silang revolt monument in Corregidor. On September 10, 1763, Silang attempted to besiege Vigan but the Spanish retaliated, forcing her into hiding. [4] She retreated once more to Abra, where the Spanish later captured her. On September 20, 1763, Silang and her troops were executed by hanging in Vigan's central plaza. [4]