A map showing the various peoples of Asia in the seventeenth century.
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The Pepper Trade
China Begins Shipping Tea to Europe
Rise of the Manchus
Li Zicheng’s Revolt
End of the Ming Dynasty
Manchus Take Beijing
Zheng Pirates Raid the Chinese Coast
Height of Qing Dynasty
First Widespread Smallpox Inoculations
Rebellion of the Three Feudatories
Treaty of Nerchinsk Draws Russian-Chinese Border
British Establish Trading Post in Canton
Mughal Court Culture Flourishes
Dutch Dominate Southeast Asian Trade
Europeans Settle in India
Shah Jahan Builds the Taj Mahal
British East India Company Establishes Fort Saint George
Reign of Aurangzeb
Portugal Cedes Bombay to the English
Founding of the Marāthā Kingdom
Singh Founds the Khalsa Brotherhood
Age of Mercantilism in Southeast Asia
Dutch Defeat the Portuguese in Bantam Harbor
Ottoman-Ṣafavid Wars
Murad IV Rules the Ottoman Empire
Ṣafavid Dynasty Flourishes Under ՙAbbās the Great
Reign of Shah ՙAbbās II
Persecution of Iranian Jews
Japan Admits Western Traders
Tokugawa Shogunate Begins
Okuni Stages the First Kabuki Dance Dramas
Neo-Confucianism Becomes Japan’s Official Philosophy
Siege of Ōsaka Castle
Japanese Ban Christian Missionaries
Promulgation of the Buke Shohatto and Kinchū Narabini Kuge Shohatto
Edo’s Floating World District
Japan’s Seclusion Policy
Shimabara Revolt
Edo Rebellions
Ietsuna Shogunate
Work Begins on Japan’s National History
Meireki Fire Ravages Edo
Reign of Tsunayoshi as Shogun
Genroku Era
Great Jelālī Revolts
Janissary Revolt and Osman II’s Assassination
Great Fire of Constantinople and Murad’s Reforms
Shabbetai Tzevi’s Messianic Movement Begins
Civil War Ravages Vietnam
