Meanwhile…

Establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate and Sakoku

1603

Founding of Jamestown

1607-05-14

The Bossche Broek as a defensive landscape

16de eeuw

Cuijk during the Eighty Years' War

late 16th century AD

The Battle of Sekigahara

1600

The Protestant Reformation

1517-10-31

Jesuit Missions Spread Catholicism to Asia and the Americas

mid-1500s to 1700s

Age of Sail Global Shipping Networks

around 1650

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution

ca. 1450 – 1700

Discovery of the law of the pendulum

rond 1583

Yermak's expedition opens up the Siberian route to the east

circa 1581-1585

John Harington designs the first modern toilet

1596

Tokugawa Japan formalizes the Tōkaidō highway

1604

Ottoman Kaftans and Silk Trade Flourish

around 1550 AD

West African Kente Cloth Weaving Emerges

around 1600 AD

Kimono Standardizes as Japanese Dress

around 1650 AD

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

Horses reach the Great Plains of North America

circa 1600