Meanwhile…

Founding of Jamestown

1607-05-14

Het Loo Palace: classicist splendour for the stadtholder

circa 1686

The failed Amherst mission

1816

Siege of Batavia by the Sultanate of Mataram

1629

Pueblo Revolt

1680-08-10

Conquest by French revolutionary troops

1794

Trial before the Roman Inquisition

1633

The Enlightenment

ca. 1715 – 1789

Founding of the VOC

1602-03-20

Manor houses and country estates of the colonial elite

ca. 1680 n.Chr.

Increasing corruption and smuggling among VOC personnel

jaren 1760-1770

Discovery of lunar mountains and the moons of Jupiter

1610

The invention of calculus

circa 1670-1684

Invention of the Smallpox Vaccine

1796

Improvement of the telescope

1609

Blaise Pascal introduces public transport in Paris

1662

Fulton's Clermont sails up the Hudson

1807-08-17

Capoeira develops among enslaved Africans in Brazil

around the 16th to 19th century

Corsets and Panniers Define the Rococo Silhouette

circa 1750

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

Horses reach the Great Plains of North America

circa 1600

house arrest and late works

1634-1642

The eruption of Tambora and the 'Year Without a Summer'

april 1815