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18th Century Timeline

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1. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






2. The R






3. First Jacobite rebellion breaks out - British halt Jacobite advance at the Battle of Sheriffmuir; Battle of Preston






4. War of the Austrian Succession






5. Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession andFirst Carnatic War






6. Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'






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






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






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






10. Outbreak of indigenous rebellion led by T






11. First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.






12. The assassination of the 14th Tu'i Kanokupolu - Tuku?aho - plunges Tonga into half a century of civil war.






13. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






15. French commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and British commander James Wolfe die during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.






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






17. Cotton mills were first opened in England






18. The French Revolution






19. Mungo Park - backed by the African Association - is the first European to set eyes on the Niger River in Africa.






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






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






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






23. United States Constitution was written in Philadelphia and submitted to the states for ratification.






24. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






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






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






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






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






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






30. Kingdom of Mysore conquers the Kingdom of Keladi






31. First Anglo-Maratha War






32. Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.






33. British colonel James Wolfe issues the Wolfe's Manifesto






34. Pinckney's Treaty between the United States and Spain granted the Mississippi Territory to the US.






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






36. Kangxi Emperor of China dies






37. 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.






38. Cotton mills were first opened in England






39. The R






40. Maratha Empire defeated at Battle of Panipat






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






42. The Great French War started as the French Revolutionary Wars which lead into the Napoleonic Wars.






43. Treaty of Utrecht end the War of the Spanish Succession






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






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






46. Serfdom abolished in the Austrian monarchy (first step; second step in 1848)






47. Tipu Sultan was killed in a battle with the British forces.






48. The Marseillaise officially adopted as the French national anthem.






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






50. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.