Meanwhile…

The American and French revolutions

1775 – 1799

Conquest by French revolutionary troops

1794

The White Lotus Rebellion

1796-1804

The Enlightenment

ca. 1715 – 1789

Opstand van de Witte Lotus daagt het Qing-gezag uit

1794-1804

Financial decline and corruption

jaren 1780

The Canton System and the Macartney Mission

1793

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

Invention of the Smallpox Vaccine

1796

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