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Foundation of Bamako (approximate date).
Angola: The small kingdom of Cassange, located between the Ndongo and the kingdom Lounda is inhabited by the people Imbagala. It controls the course higher of the Kwango and is used as intermediary between the Portuguese and the people of central Africa of 1650 than 1850.
Beginning of the traditional period maori E in the island of the South of the New Zealand.
the French settle with Cayenne in the years 1650.
Plus 200 000 Lutherans are expelled of Bohemia after 1650.

Rembrandt changes style, adopts colors plus sharp, painted great compositions with more force
Cromwell control surface the England (until in 1658)

Art & culture

the most important universities in Germany are side protesting Iéna, Wittemberg and Leipzig and on the catholic side Cologne, Vienna and Ingolstadt.
Fall of the publication of the books in Germany: 600 titles per annum against 1600 at the beginning of the century.

Vis-a-vis the failure of Pertharite in 1651, Corneille gives up the theater for several years. It will join again with the tragedy in 1659, with Oedipus . It is devoted, of 1652 with 1656, with the verse translation of the Imitation of Jesus-Christ

“monetary Food shortage” in Europe (1650 - 1730) due to a fall of gold coming from America.

the Hanseatic trade, which accounted for the 3/4 of the traffic with the Baltique and the Norway in 1620, does not correspond any more but to the third under the effect of Dutch competition.

Starting from second half of the 17th century, the Habsbourg will more frequently intervene in their possessions in order to protect the peasants from excesses of the system seigneurial, and thus to increase the profitability of the ground according to the data of the mercenary attitude. In spite of that, the drudgery is maintained, including for the construction of “castles baroques” in the countryside, then with the mode. The breeding is between the hands of the lord who imports pedigree animals Swiss and Dutch and the practice in an intensive way. The forests are often ecclesiastical properties and one begins the systematic exploitation of it: those of the Wienerwald, possessions of the sovereign, are used with construction of boats and cars.

the fall of the birthrate in England causes a real wage increase. Agricultural technological advances involve an improvement of the output. A widening of the economic market starts. The retail business develops quickly.

the Italy account 11,5 million inhabitants about 1650 - 1660. The Plain of the Po with lost more than 22% of its population since 1600. The Peste S punctured from 10 to 15% of the population. The cities rather than the campaigns more seem to have suffered, in particular with Venice.

Two million inhabitants to the United Provinces. Amsterdam borders the 150 000 inhabitants.
the Netherlanders control 80% of the trade of Spanish wool. The exchanges with France (wine of Bordeaux in particular) exceed 36 million books.
the Dutchmen practice an increasingly intensive agriculture (abandonment of the fallow, rotations, amendments, manures obtained by the increase in the breeding, regroupings).

the Swedish State, impoverished by the wars, is in the obligation to alienate the grounds of the crown which pass to the nobility. The properties of the Swedish nobility extend then on 72% from the grounds (22% in 1550, 30% in 1700).
the Danish nobility has 44% of the grounds (75% at the end of the 18th century).

In the middle of the century, Algiers account 150 000 inhabitants, of which 15 000 old Inhabitants of Algiers, 40 000 renegades, 25 000 Morisques, 10 000 Levantines, 5 000 Turks, of 5 with 6 000 Jews, 3 000 Blacks and more 35 000 Christian slaves. One speaks there Turkish, Arabic, the Berber one and the “Lingua franca”, formed of the mixture of several languages.

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Simple: 1650s

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