Meanwhile…

Kyōhō reforms under shogun Yoshimune

circa 1716-1745

Qianlong Emperor and the territorial heyday of the Qing empire

circa 1760

The Battle of Plassey and the beginning of British colonial rule in India

1757

The Enlightenment

ca. 1715 – 1789

Jesuits Expelled from Spanish and Portuguese Empires

1767-1773

agricultural revolution in Europe

ca. 1700 – 1770

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

spread of variolation against smallpox

rond 1720

Invention of the Spinning Jenny

1764

Capoeira develops among enslaved Africans in Brazil

around the 16th to 19th century

First European Contact and Early Written Accounts of Haka

1642–1770

Corsets and Panniers Define the Rococo Silhouette

circa 1750

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden