Meanwhile…

The American and French revolutions

1775 – 1799

beginning of the Haitian Revolution

1791-08-22

Conquest by French revolutionary troops

1794

The Enlightenment

ca. 1715 – 1789

Opstand van de Witte Lotus daagt het Qing-gezag uit

1794-1804

Financial decline and corruption

jaren 1780

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

Invention of the Smallpox Vaccine

1796

Leap into the void: the first parachute jump

1797-10-22

Native American ceremonial dance traditions

from ancient times to today

Capoeira develops among enslaved Africans in Brazil

around the 16th to 19th century

Irish riverdance evolves from folk roots to global phenomenon

from the 18th century to 1994 and beyond

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

Great Tenmei famine and peasant uprisings

circa 1782-1788