Meanwhile…

Declaration of Independence of the United States

1776-07-04

Independence of Haiti

1804-01-01

The Waterstaatsstijl: sobriety and state authority

circa 1840

Consequences of the Seven Years' War for Asian trade

1756-1763

Conquest by French revolutionary troops

1794

Battle of Ayacucho

9 december 1824

The Enlightenment

ca. 1715 – 1789

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

Increasing corruption and smuggling among VOC personnel

jaren 1760-1770

Dissolution of the VOC

1799-12-31

California Gold Rush

1848-1855

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

Gauss proves the fundamental theorem of algebra

1799

Charles Darwin publishes theory of coral reef formation

1842

Cugnot builds the first self-propelled steam vehicle

1769

Fulton's Clermont sails up the Hudson

1807-08-17

steam on the rails: the railway revolution

1825-09-27

First European Contact and Early Written Accounts of Haka

1642–1770

Corsets and Panniers Define the Rococo Silhouette

circa 1750

Sequoyah develops the Cherokee syllabary

1821

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