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18th Century Timeline

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1. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






2. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






3. The Great Plague of Marseille






4. Qajar dynasty founded in Iran after replacing the Zand dynasty.






5. War of 27 years between the Marathas and Mughals ends inIndia.






6. Tarabai establishes rival Maratha Empire government in Kolhapur against Chattrapati Shahu






7. Upper Canada bans slavery.






8. Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is killed by Robert Maynard in a North Carolina inlet on the inner side of Ocracoke Island






9. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






10. Spanish missionaries established the first of 21 missions in California.






11. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






12. The Partitions of Poland ended the Polish






13. Richard Arkwright and his partners build the world's first water-powered mill at Cromford.






14. First Great Awakening takes place in Great Britain and North America.






15. Mahmud I takes over Ottoman Empire after the Patrona Halil revolt - ending the Tulip period.






16. Battle of Montenotte. Engagement in the War of theFirst Coalition. Napoleon Bonaparte's first victory as an army commander.






17. TheFirst Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia






18. Jay's Treaty concluded between Great Britain and the United States - by which the Western outposts in the Great Lakes are returned to the U.S. - and commerce between the two countries is regulated.






19. Freed slaves from London founded Freetown in present-day Sierra Leone.






20. The South Sea Bubble






21. The R






22. Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War and Third Carnatic War






23. Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.






24. Burmese conquered the Ayutthaya kingdom.






25. Inconfid






26. American Revolutionary War






27. Establishment of the French-backed Batavian Republic in present-day Netherlands.






28. Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'






29. Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.






30. Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments - thus establishing the Kingdom of Great Britain.






31. Famine in Ireland killed ten per cent of the population






32. War of the Spanish Succession - French troops defeated at the Battles of Ramilies and Turin.






33. The Great Upheaval - forced population transfer of the French Acadian population from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick






34. Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination. Smallpox killed an estimated 400000 Europeans each year during the 18th century (including five reigning monarchs).






35. The largest yellow fever epidemic in American history killed as many as 5000 people in Philadelphia






36. War of 27 years between the Marathas and Mughals ends inIndia.






37. Peak of the Little Ice Age






38. Kansei Reforms instituted in Japan by Matsudaira Sadanobu.






39. War of the Austrian Succession






40. Ottoman Empire fights Russia in the Russo-Turkish War






41. Freed slaves from London founded Freetown in present-day Sierra Leone.






42. Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire






43. British attempt to capture St. Augustine - Florida but lose to the Spanish during the Siege of St. Augustine






44. Russo-Persian War






45. Great Britain and Spain dispute the Nootka Sound during the Nootka Crisis.






46. The Irish Rebellion failed to overthrow British rule in Ireland.






47. Great Northern War between Tsarist Russia and the Swedish Empire






48. The Third Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia.






49. Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans at the Battle of Nu'uanu.






50. James Cook becomes first European on the Hawaiian Islands.