Meanwhile…

Kyōhō reforms under shogun Yoshimune

circa 1716-1745

The Waterstaatsstijl: sobriety and state authority

circa 1840

The height of the British Empire

rond 1920

The Chinese Massacre in Batavia

1740

The White Lotus Rebellion

1796-1804

Cancellation of the 1916 Berlin Olympic Games

1916

The Enlightenment

ca. 1715 – 1789

Opstand van de Witte Lotus daagt het Qing-gezag uit

1794-1804

Bahá'í Faith Emerges from Persian Bábism

1860s

agricultural revolution in Europe

ca. 1700 – 1770

The Canton System and the Macartney Mission

1793

Rise of the American shoe factory system

1860s-1880s

European naturalists begin scientific study of coral

1725

Galois and the birth of group theory

1832

Fibonacci numbers in natural science

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Cugnot builds the first self-propelled steam vehicle

1769

steam on the rails: the railway revolution

1825-09-27

The car for everyone: the Ford Model T

1908-10-01

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

1904 St. Louis Olympics

juli-november 1904

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

Move to Munich

1880

The Great Stink forces London into action

1858

The Anthropocene and climate change

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