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18th Century Timeline

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1. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






2. Pugachev's Rebellion was the largest peasant revolt in Russia's history.






3. Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish






4. Russo-Turkish War.






5. War of the Austrian Succession






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






7. 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.






8. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands






9. Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism incompatible






10. Tuscarora War between British - Dutch - and German settlers and the Tuscarora people of North Carolina






11. The Constitutional Act (Or Canada Act) creates the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada in British North America.






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






13. Controversy over William Wood's halfpence leads to the Drapier's Letters and begins the Irish economic independence from England movement






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






15. Louis XIV dies - leaving France greatly enlarged but deep in debt - The Regency takes power under Philippe d'Orleans






16. Second Jacobite Rebellion began by Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland






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






18. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






19. Famine across the Sahel - half the population of Timbuktu died.






20. The Second Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia






21. Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery






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






23. James Cook claims the East Coast of Australia (New South Wales) for Great Britain.






24. Famine kills one-third of East Prussia's population.






25. The South Sea Bubble






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






28. Battle of Plassey signaled the beginning of formal British rule inIndia after years of commercial activity under the auspices of the EastIndia Company.






29. Controversy over William Wood's halfpence leads to the Drapier's Letters and begins the Irish economic independence from England movement






30. After Aurangzeb's death - the Mughal Empire enters a long decline and the Maratha Empire slowly replaces it.






31. The Fulani nomads took complete control of Fuuta Jallon and set up the first of many Fulani jihad states to come






32. The world's first copyright legislation - Britain's Statute of Anne - becomes effective






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






34. Seven Years' War fought among European powers in various theaters around the world.






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






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






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






38. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






39. Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church






40. First Anglo-Maratha War






41. Seven Years' War fought among European powers in various theaters around the world.






42. George Washington elected President of the United States. Served until 1797.






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44. Outbreak of indigenous rebellion led by T






45. The White Lotus Rebellion against the Manchu Dynasty in China.






46. War of the Spanish Succession was a conflict which involved most of Europe.






47. Camisard Rebellion in France.






48. United States of Belgium proclaimed following the Brabant Revolution.






49. Saint Petersburg founded by Peter the Great. Russian capital until 1918.






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