The founding of the British East India Company
The founding of the British East India Company
The facts
| Dates | AD 1600 |
|---|---|
| Source | Printed on the chart |
Where this sits on the chart
The founding of the British East India Company falls 5604 years out from Creation at the centre. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.
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Who else was alive
Zapotecs (Monte Alban, Mixtla)AD 1500Michelangelo finishes the Sistine Chapel ceilingAD 1512The Protestant ReformationAD 1517The publication of Copernicus’s heliocentric theoryAD 1543Galileo Galilei confirms the heliocentric theoryAD 1632The Industrial RevolutionAD 1760 – AD 1840The establishment of the United States Postal ServiceAD 1775The American Declaration of IndependenceAD 1776
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