Meanwhile…

Founding of Batavia

1619-05-30

Ligdan Khan dies and the Northern Yuan falls to the Qing

1634-1635

Great Peace of Montreal

1701-08-04

Siege of Batavia by the Sultanate of Mataram

1629

Siege by the Bishop of Münster during the Rampjaar (Disaster Year)

1672

Sikhism Founded by Guru Nanak's Successors Institutionalized

1604-1699

The Enlightenment

ca. 1715 – 1789

Founding of Fort Zeelandia on Formosa

1624

the peak of the Golden Age

rond 1670

Cotton Textile Boom Reshapes Indian and European Markets

circa 1700

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

Descartes verenigt algebra en meetkunde

1637

The invention of calculus

circa 1670-1684

Invention of the Mechanical Calculator

1642

Blaise Pascal introduces public transport in Paris

1662

Capoeira develops among enslaved Africans in Brazil

around the 16th to 19th century

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

house arrest and late works

1634-1642