De tijdlijn geeft een overzicht van belangrijke gebeurtenissen tussen ca 1600 - 1900 in Africa, Midden Oosten, Oost Azie, India en Zuidoost Azie en Europa.
| Africa and the Middle East | The Americas | East Asia | India and Southeast Asia | Europe | |
| 1600 |
Dutch West India Co. supplants Portuguese in West Africa, ca 1630 Dutch settle Cape Town, 1651 Rise of Ashanti Empire, founded on Gold Coast trade, ca 1700-1750 |
British settle Jamestown, 1607 Champlain founds Quebec, 1608 Dutch found New Amsterdam, 1624 Black labor allows tenfold increase in production of Carolinian rice and Virginian tobacco, ca 1730-1760 Silver production quadruples in Mexico and Peru, ca 1700-1800 |
Tokugawa Shogunate, 1600-1867 Japan expels all Europeans, 1637 Manchus establish Qing Dynasty, 1644 Height of Qing Dynasty und K'ang-hsi, 1662-1722 Height of Edo urban culture in Japan, ca 1700 |
Height of Mughal Empire und Shah Jahan, 1628-1658 British found Calcutta, 1690 Decline of Mughal Empire, ca 1700-1800 Persian invaders sack Delhi, 1739 |
Romanov Dynasty in Russia, 1613 Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 Brandenburg-Prussia unified, 1640-1688 English Civil War, 1642-1646 Louis XIV, king of France, 1643-1714 Ottomans besiege Vienna, 1683 The Glorious Revolution in England, 1688 |
| 1700 |
Approximately 11 million slaves shipped from Africa, ca 1450-1850 Dutch found Cape Colony, 1657 Rise of Ashanti, West Africa, ca 1700 Decline of the Safavid Empire under Nadi Shah, 1737-1747 |
Spain's defeat in War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714, prompts trade reform, leading to colonial dependence on Spanish goods, 18th century |
Tokugawa regime in Japan, characterized by political stability and economic growth, 1600-1867 Manchus establish Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911 Height of Qing Dynasty under Emperor Ch'ien-lung, 1736-1799 |
Mughal power contested by Hindus and Muslims, 18th century Persian invaders defeat Mughal army, loot Delhi, 1739 French and British fight for control of India, 1740-1763 |
Growth of absolutism in central and eastern Europe, ca 1680-1790 The Enlightenment, ca 1680-1800 Height of land enclosure in England, ca 1760-1810 |
| 1750 |
Sultan Selim III introduces administrative and military reforms, 1761-1808 British seize Cape Town, 1795 Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, 1798 |
"French and Indian Wars," 1756-1763 American Revolution, 1775-1783 Comunero revolution, New Granada, 1781 |
Maximum extent of Qing Empire, 1759 |
Battle of Plassey, 1757 Treaty of Paris, 1763; French colonies to Britain Cook in Australia, 1768-1771; first British prisoners to Australia, 1788 East India Act, 1784 |
Englishman James Watt produces first steam engine, 1769 Outbreak of French Revolution, 1789 National Convention declares France a republic, 1792 |
| 1800 |
Muhammad Ali founds dynasty in Egypt, 1805-1848 Slavery abolished in British Empire, 1807 Peak year of African transatlantic slave trade, 1820 |
Latin American wars of independence from Spain, 1806-1825 Brazil wins independence from Portugal, 1822 Monroe Doctrine, 1823 Political instability in most Latin American countries, 1825-1870 Mexican War, 1846-1848 |
Java War, 1825-1830 Anglo-Chinese Opium War, 1839-1842 Treaty of Nanjing, 1842: Manchus surrender Hong Kong to the British |
British found Singapore, 1819 British defeat last independent native state in India, 1848 |
Napoleonic Empire, 1804-1814 Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815 Greece wins independence from Ottoman Empire, 1829 Revolutions in France, Prussia, Italy, and Austria, 1848-1849 |
| 1850 |
Crimean War, 1853-1856 Suez Canal opens, 1869 Europeans intensify "scramble for Africa," 1880-1900 Battle of Omdurman, 1898 Boer War, 1899-1902 |
American Civil War, 1861-1865 British North America Act, 1867, for Canada Porfirio Diaz controls Mexico, 1876-1911 United States practices "dollar diplomacy" in Latin America, 1890-1920s Spanish-American War, 1898; United States gains Philippines |
Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864 Perry's arrival opens Japan to United States and Europe, 1853 Meiji Restoration in Japan, 1867 Adoption of constitution in Japan, 1890 Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895 "Hundred Days of Reform" in China, 1898 |
Great Rebellion in India, 1857-1858 French seize Saigon, 1859 Indian National Congress formed, 1885 French acquire Indochina, 1893 |
Unification of Italy, 1859-1870 Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871; foundation of German Empire Parliamentary Reform Bill, Great Britain, 1867 Second Socialist International, 1889-1914 |
| 1900 |
Union of South Africa formed, 1910 South African Native National Congress French annex Morocco, 1912 African resistance movements; Herero revolts Treaty of Sevres dissolves Ottoman Empire, 1919 |
Massive immigration from Europe and Asia to the Americas, 1880-1914 Mexican Revolution, 1910 Panama Canal opens, 1914 United States enters World War I, 1917 Mexico adopts constitution, 1917 Ford Model T introduced Mexican Revolution begins The New Deal A-Bomb developed |
Boxer Rebellion in China, 1900-1903 Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 Japanese militarism; Japan annexes Korea Chinese Revolution; fall of Qing Dynasty, 1911 Chinese Republic, 1912-1949 |
Commonwealth of Australia, 1900 Muslim League formed, 1906 Radicals make first calls for Indian independence, 1907 Amritsar massacre in India, 1919 Vietnamese and Indonesian nationalism Intensification of Indian nationalism, 1919-1947 |
Revolution in Russia, 1905 Einstein's theory of relativity V.I. Lenin and Bolshevism; Russian Revolution, 1917 Triple Entente (Britain, Russia, France), 1914-1918 World War I, 1914-1918 Treaty of Versailles, 1919 Mussolini and Hitler Spanish Civil War World War II, 1939-1945; The Holocaust; United Nations |
| 1945 |
Algerian revolution African independence Iranian Revolution, 1979 Iran-Iraq War Universal suffrage in South Africa |
Juan and Evita Peron in Argentina Rock and Roll Cuban Revolution, 1959; Fidel Castro Martin Luther King, Jr., U.S. civil rights crusade Man on the Moon, 1969 Women's liberation movement, United States The Computer Age |
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945 Chinese Communist victory; Mao Zedong |
Independence in India; Nehru Bandung Conference; neutralist movement U.S. in Vietnam |
Berlin Wall, 1961 Collapse of Communism in eastern Europe Dismantling of Berlin Wall Reunification of Germany Collapse of USSR |
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