Meanwhile…

Establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate and Sakoku

1603

Founding of Jamestown

1607-05-14

The Bossche Broek as a defensive landscape

16de eeuw

Cuijk during the Eighty Years' War

late 16th century AD

The Battle of Sekigahara

1600

The Protestant Reformation

1517-10-31

Jesuit Missions Spread Catholicism to Asia and the Americas

mid-1500s to 1700s

Sikhism Founded by Guru Nanak's Successors Institutionalized

1604-1699

Age of Sail Global Shipping Networks

around 1650

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution

ca. 1450 – 1700

Oñate blazes the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

1598

Tokugawa Japan formalizes the Tōkaidō highway

1604

Ottoman Kaftans and Silk Trade Flourish

around 1550 AD

West African Kente Cloth Weaving Emerges

around 1600 AD

Kimono Standardizes as Japanese Dress

around 1650 AD

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

Horses reach the Great Plains of North America

circa 1600