Meanwhile…

The American and French revolutions

1775 – 1799

wars and competition with England

1652-1784

The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War

1780-1784

The Enlightenment

ca. 1715 – 1789

Increasing corruption and smuggling among VOC personnel

jaren 1760-1770

Financial decline and corruption

jaren 1780

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

Alexander Cummings patents the S-shaped trap

1775

The Montgolfier brothers make mankind take flight

1783-11-21

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