1600s
1600 English East India Company founded
1607 Jamestown established in Virginia
1620s
1620 François Bernier born
1640s
1642 English Civil War
1643 The Taj Mahal completed
1648 Thirty Years' War ends
1650s
1652 Cornelis de Bruyn born
1659 Bernier arrives in India
1660s
1661 Restoration in England
1669 Bernier returns to France
1670s
1670 Bernier book published
1672 Johan de Witt attacked
1674 de Bruyn departs on first journey
1675 John Dryden's Aurang-Zebe premieres
1676 Philip Johan von Strahlenberg born
1680s
1688 Bernier dies
1689 Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia, begins modernization campaign
1690s
1693 de Bruyn returns to the Netherlands
1700s
1700 Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia at the Battle of Narva
1702 de Bruyn embarks on second journey; arrives in Russia
1706 First Javanese War of Succession, partly in response to Dutch colonization
1706 de Bruyn arrives in Java
1709 Russia defeats Sweden at the Battle of Poltava; Strahlenberg taken prisoner
1710s
1711 Strahlenberg begins travels through Siberia
1721 Strahlenberg freed; returns to Stockholm
1720s
1727 de Bruyn dies
1730s
1730 Strahlenberg's book published
1734 Rev. Andrew Burnaby born. The Marquis de Chastellux born
1740s
1741 Peter Simon Pallas born
1747 Strahlenberg dies
1749 Sir Henry St. George Liddell born
1749 Samuel Turner born
1750s
1751 Irwin's book published
1754 The New York Society Library founded
1756 French and Indian War (or Seven Years' War) begins
1757 British Empire begins official takeover of India
1759 Burnaby visits America
1759 Mary Wollstonecraft born
1760s
1762 Catherine the Great becomes ruler of Russia
1766 Irwin joins East India Company in Madras
1767 Burnaby rescues exiled Jesuits in Livorno
1768 Pallas embarks on first expedition to Siberia
1770s
1772 Chastellux's first book, On Public Happiness, published
1774 George Bogle makes first trip to Tibet
1774 Pallas returns to St. Petersburg
1775 American War of Independence begins
1775 Burnaby's book published
1777 Irwin's journey up the Red Sea
1779 Chastellux arrives in America with French forces
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1780s
1783 American War of Independence ends
1784 Crimea annexed by Russia
1781 Irwin returns to Madras
1781 George Bogle and the Panchen Lama die
1782 Turner visits Tibet
1782 Chastellux visits Monticello; Martha Wayles Jefferson dies
1785 Irwin returns to England
1786 Chastellux's book published
1786 Liddell and Consett journey to Sweden and Lapland
1786 Warren Hastings' Governor-Generalship of India ends in scandal
1787 English version of Chastellux's book published
1787 Irwin's book published
1787 Claudius Rich born
1788 The Marquis de Chastellux dies
1788 W.H. Sleeman born
1789 French Revolution begins
1789 Consett's book published
1790s
1791 Liddell dies
1792 Irwin makes journey to China
1792 Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1793 Pallas takes second expedition to Siberia
1793 Reign of Terror in France
1795 Wollstonecraft visits Scandinavia
1796 Napoleon begins rise to power
1796 Wollstonecraft's book published
1797 Wollstonecraft dies
1799 Rosetta Stone discovered in Egypt
1800s
1800 Turner's book published
1802 Turner dies
1802 English translation of Pallas' book published
1803 Rich joins East India Company
1804 Haitian Revolution overthrows French rule in West Indies
1804 Burnaby's book on Pasquale Paoli published
1807 Great Britain outlaws the slave trade
1808 Rich becomes Resident in Baghdad,begins work on site of ancient Nineveh
1809 Sleeman joins East India Company
1810s
1810 Pallas returns to Berlin
1811 Pallas dies
1811 Rich does major work at site of ancient Babylon
1812 War of 1812 in United States
1812 Burnaby dies
1817 Irwin dies
1820s
1820 Rich travels to Kurdistan and Persia
1821 Rich dies
1830s
1830 Sleeman made Superintendent for the Suppression of Thugs
1836 Rich's book published
1836 Dutch colony founded in South Africa
1836 Sleeman's Ramaseeana published
1837 Victoria becomes Queen of England
1837 Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug published
1839 American edition of Sleeman's book published
1840s
1840 Sleeman's campaign against Thugs considered successful
1850s
1856 Sleeman dies
1857 Great Mutiny or "Sepoy Rebellion" in India
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