Meanwhile…

The American and French revolutions

1775 – 1799

The failed Amherst mission

1816

The Waterstaatsstijl: sobriety and state authority

circa 1840

Conquest by French revolutionary troops

1794

Latin American wars of independence

1810-1825

the Taiping Rebellion

1850-1864

Opstand van de Witte Lotus daagt het Qing-gezag uit

1794-1804

Robert Owen advocates for 'eight hours' labour, eight hours' recreation, eight hours' rest'

1817

Bahá'í Faith Emerges from Persian Bábism

1860s

Financial decline and corruption

jaren 1780

California Gold Rush

1848-1855

Invention of the Smallpox Vaccine

1796

Galois and the birth of group theory

1832

The Montgolfier brothers make mankind take flight

1783-11-21

steam on the rails: the railway revolution

1825-09-27

India's first railway line: Bombay-Thane

1853-04-16

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

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

april 1815

The Great Stink forces London into action

1858