What events changed the world and Chinese history in the 17th century?

The biggest changes of the century are in the following aspects:

Economically: the development of capitalist economy, the industrial revolution in the 60s of the 18th century first occurred in Britain, and had an epoch-making significance.

Politically: the early era of bourgeois revolution came, bourgeois revolutions occurred in Britain, the United States, and France, and the capitalist system was established;

Ideologically: the Renaissance reached its peak, the Reformation, the Enlightenment developed, gradually freed from the shackles of medieval theology, and capitalist ideas were widely disseminated.

The most important point is that under the influence of the global view of history, the whole world has begun to move from dispersion to wholeness.

According to the American historian Stavrianos, the century was a period in which the Western world rose and became dominant, and the gap between East and West widened.

Britain completed the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century and became the world's factory at that time.

1701: England.

inventing the seeder; In 1764, Hargreaves invented the "Jenny spinning machine", marking the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Britain; 1765: Hargre River invented the Jenny loom. 1769:

Watt's improvement of the steam engine at Newquinmen was successful. Richard Arkwright invents the hydrolom machine. In 1771, the first hydraulic spinning mill was established in Arkwright, England.

Marks the birth of the modern factory; In 1782, Watt developed the "universal steam engine". Open up a new "steam age"; 1788: The first iron bridge in British history was built.

In the 18th century, the Qing Empire, the Mughal Empire.

French Empire, Ottoman Turkey.

Austrian Empire, Russian Empire.

are in the prime of life.

In the 18th century, English clothing formed its own distinctive characteristics and was famous in European countries, and its influence was second only to that of French clothing.

Chinese tea was introduced to England in the mid-17th century and was quickly accepted by consumers. By the middle of the 18th century, everyone from the princes and nobles to the peddlers and pawns had to drink tea, and some even arrived"It is better not to eat than to drink tea"degree.

Industrial Revolution French Revolution North American independence Seven Years' War between Britain and France.

The United States became independent and the Industrial Revolution began.

In the decades from the end of the 17th century to the mid-18th century, England and France fought many wars. Among them, the Seven Years' War, which took place between 1756 and 1763, was the most important. This war was a melee in which Britain and France were the two belligerents and many countries in Europe were involved, and the war was fought both in Europe and overseas.

In the end, Britain emerged victorious.

The greatest invention of the 17th century, the invention of the microscope (the discovery of microorganisms).The first to observe the microorganism was the Dutchman Antory van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723).In 1676, he built the world's first microscope (about 40 270 times magnification) with self-grinding lenses, and observed and described various forms of microorganisms for the first time from rainwater, pond water and other specimens, providing strong evidence for the existence of microorganisms and laying the foundation for the establishment of microbial morphology.

The greatest invention of the 18th century – the steam engine.