Meanwhile…

Het Loo Palace: classicist splendour for the stadtholder

circa 1686

Loss of capital status to Saint Petersburg

1712

Qianlong Emperor and the territorial heyday of the Qing empire

circa 1760

wars and competition with England

1652-1784

The Battle of Plassey and the beginning of British colonial rule in India

1757

The Enlightenment

ca. 1715 – 1789

Manor houses and country estates of the colonial elite

ca. 1680 n.Chr.

agricultural revolution in Europe

ca. 1700 – 1770

Increasing corruption and smuggling among VOC personnel

jaren 1760-1770

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

The invention of calculus

circa 1670-1684

European naturalists begin scientific study of coral

1725

Invention of the Spinning Jenny

1764

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