Oceans became highways, gunpowder empires rose, and the scientific revolution began. These articles cover the three centuries in which the world's regions first became one system.
National Army Museum dates the Battle of Plassey to June 23, 1757. A 1772-73 inquiry then examined the payments Robert Clive took from Mir Jafar.
· 1757He came aboard Endeavour on July 13, 1769, at Banks's request, spoke to Māori for Cook in New Zealand, drew a chart of islands and died at Batavia in 1770.
· 1769Cook's journal records a musket fired between two Gweagal men at Botany Bay; Banks put the number of spears taken afterward at forty or fifty.
· 1770Qianlong's monument, translated by Amiot in 1776, records the Torghuts' eight-month march from the Volga to the Ili in 1771; counts of the dead disagree.
· 1771Lancashire machines from 1764, the Cromford mill of 1771, high wages and cheap coal explain why cotton factories appeared first in the English Midlands and North.
· 1771Bligh's own account of the dawn of April 28, 1789, the 3618-mile boat voyage to Timor, and the Portsmouth court-martial of 1792 that hanged three men.
· 1789
