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Dutch East India Company
The Dutch East India Company, also known as the Dutch East India Company, was established on March 20, 1602.when the States General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to conduct business in Asia.It was the first multinational corporation in the world and the first company to publish its profits. -
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its full title is The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha or, in Spanish, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha. -
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Franco-Dutch War
The Franco-Dutch War, was a war that took place between France, Münster, Cologne and England against the United Provinces, which was later joined by Spain,the Holy Roman Empire and the Elector of Brandenburg to form the Quadruple Alliance. The war ended with the Treaties of Nijmegen by which France obtained the Franche-Comté of Spain and definitively became the first military, maritime and commercial power in Europe -
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War of the Spanish Succession
War of the Spanish Succession begins-the last of Louis XIV's wars for domination of the continent. The Peace of Utrecht (1714) will end the conflict and mark the rise of the British Empire. Called Queen Anne's War in America, it ends with the British taking New Foundland, Acadia, and Hudson's Bay Territory from France, and Gibraltar and Minorca from Spain. -
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3 years war
Three Years' War may refer to: Father Rale's War (1722–1725), between the New England colonies and the Wabanaki Confederacy. First Schleswig War (1848–1851), between Denmark and Prussia rooted over the Schleswig-Holstein Question. Gosannen War, fought in the 1080s in Mutsu Province on the Japanese island of Honshū -
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels.
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire[1][2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it". -
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Luis XIV
Louis XVI (1754–1793) was the last king of France (reigning from 1774 to 1792) before the monarchy was abolished during the French Revolution (1789–99). -
James Watt invents the steam engine.
James Watt invents the steam engine. Britain imposes the Stamp Act on the American colonists.