Clara the rhinoceros tours Europe
A celebrity rhino tours Europe for 17 years
In 1741 a Dutch captain brought Clara the rhinoceros from India and toured her around Europe for 17 years in a huge carriage. Kings came to see her, artists painted her, and Paris ladies wore their hair à la rhinocéros.
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In 1749 fashionable Parisian ladies wore their hair à la rhinocéros. The cause was Clara, a rhino whom a Dutch captain toured around Europe for 17 years, from Berlin and Vienna to Versailles and Venice. Share →
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1721 Proclamation of the Russian Empire — 20 years earlier
- 1762 Accession of Catherine the Great — 21 years later
- 1764 Founding of the Hermitage — 23 years later
Middle East
- 1722 Fall of Isfahan — 19 years earlier
- 1747 Ahmad Shah Durrani founds the Afghan state — 6 years later
Asia
- 1755–1758 The Dzungar genocide — 14 years later
- 1757 Battle of Plassey — 16 years later
- 1761 Third Battle of Panipat — 20 years later
Alive at the time
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 56)
- Voltaire (aged 47)
- Benjamin Franklin (aged 35)
- Mikhail Lomonosov (aged 30)
- James Cook (aged 13)
- Catherine the Great (aged 12)
- George Washington (aged 9)
- Vitus Bering (aged 60)
- Tokugawa Yoshimune (aged 57)
- Nader Shah (aged 53)