Meanwhile…

Kyōhō reforms under shogun Yoshimune

circa 1716-1745

Declaration of Independence of the United States

1776-07-04

Independence of Haiti

1804-01-01

The Battle of Plassey and the beginning of British colonial rule in India

1757

Conquest by French revolutionary troops

1794

The Enlightenment

ca. 1715 – 1789

Opstand van de Witte Lotus daagt het Qing-gezag uit

1794-1804

Cotton Textile Boom Reshapes Indian and European Markets

circa 1700

agricultural revolution in Europe

ca. 1700 – 1770

The Canton System and the Macartney Mission

1793

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

European naturalists begin scientific study of coral

1725

Invention of the Smallpox Vaccine

1796

Cugnot builds the first self-propelled steam vehicle

1769

Invention of the Electric Battery

1800

First European Contact and Early Written Accounts of Haka

1642–1770

Corsets and Panniers Define the Rococo Silhouette

circa 1750

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

Great Tenmei famine and peasant uprisings

circa 1782-1788