 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1477 |
| | | Ptolemy's concept of the world, with the Atlantic stretching to China and India, is printed in Bologna – fifteen years before Columbus sails west | |
| |
|
| 1497 |
| | | John Cabot, searching for a trade route to China, probably reaches Newfoundland | |
| |
|
| 1557 |
| | | The Portuguese establish a trading post on Macao, a small peninsula off the south coast of China | |
| |
|
| c. 1575 |
| | | Soft-paste porcelain, in imitation of true porcelain from China, is successfully created for the Medici in Florence | |
| |
|
| 1583 |
| | | The Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives in China, and becomes the first western student of Chinese civilization | |
| |
|
| c. 1595 |
| | | The writings of Matteo Ricci introduce Kung Fu Tzu to Europe under a Latin version of his name - Confucius | |
| |
|
| 1614 |
| | | An edict is passed expelling Jesuit missionaries from Japan, and ordering their converts to revert to Buddhism | |
| |
|
| 1644 |
| | | The last Ming emperor hangs himself, and China acquires a new and final dynasty - the Qing | |
| |
|
| 1683 |
| | | The Qing emperor orders all Chinese men to shave their heads, leaving only a long pigtail | |
| |
|
| c. 1690 |
| | | Chinoiserie becomes the new craze in Europe, after Jesuit reports of the Chinese civilization | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |