Meanwhile…

Kyōhō reforms under shogun Yoshimune

circa 1716-1745

Declaration of Independence of the United States

1776-07-04

Independence of Haiti

1804-01-01

wars and competition with England

1652-1784

Consequences of the Seven Years' War for Asian trade

1756-1763

beginning of the Haitian Revolution

1791-08-22

The Enlightenment

ca. 1715 – 1789

Opstand van de Witte Lotus daagt het Qing-gezag uit

1794-1804

agricultural revolution in Europe

ca. 1700 – 1770

Increasing corruption and smuggling among VOC personnel

jaren 1760-1770

Dissolution of the VOC

1799-12-31

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

European naturalists begin scientific study of coral

1725

Invention of the Smallpox Vaccine

1796

Cugnot builds the first self-propelled steam vehicle

1769

Invention of the Electric Battery

1800

First European Contact and Early Written Accounts of Haka

1642–1770

Corsets and Panniers Define the Rococo Silhouette

circa 1750

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

Great Tenmei famine and peasant uprisings

circa 1782-1788