Meanwhile…

Qianlong Emperor and the territorial heyday of the Qing empire

circa 1760

The American and French revolutions

1775 – 1799

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

Jesuits Expelled from Spanish and Portuguese Empires

1767-1773

Opstand van de Witte Lotus daagt het Qing-gezag uit

1794-1804

agricultural revolution in Europe

ca. 1700 – 1770

Austerity in times of economic decline

circa 1780

The Canton System and the Macartney Mission

1793

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

Invention of the Smallpox Vaccine

1796

Cugnot builds the first self-propelled steam vehicle

1769

The Montgolfier brothers make mankind take flight

1783-11-21

Invention of the Electric Battery

1800

Capoeira develops among enslaved Africans in Brazil

around the 16th to 19th century

First European Contact and Early Written Accounts of Haka

1642–1770

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