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18th Century Timeline

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






3. The enormous Chinese encyclopedia Gujin Tushu Jicheng of over 100 million written Chinese characters in over 800000 pages is printed in 60 different copies using copper-based Chinese movable type printing






4. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.






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






6. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






7. Burmese conquered the Ayutthaya kingdom.






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






9. End of Japan's Genroku period.






10. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






11. Spanish attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






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






13. Pope Clement XII issues the Eminenti Apostolatus Specula prohibiting Catholics from becoming Freemasons.






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






15. Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.






16. Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.






17. George III became King of Britain.






18. Nader Shah defeated the Mughals at the Battle of Karnal and sacked Delhi.






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






20. Robert Walpole became the first Prime Minister of Great Britain (de facto)






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






22. First Anglo-Maratha War






23. Imam Sheikh Mansur - a Chechen warrior and Muslim mystic - led a coalition of Muslim Caucasian tribes from throughout the Caucasus in a holy war against the Russian invaders.






24. The 'Great Disaster'






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






26. Nader Shah assumed title of Shah of Persia and founded the Afsharid dynasty. Ruled until his death in 1747.






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






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






29. Maratha Empire defeated at Battle of Panipat






30. Ahmed Shah Durrani founded the Durrani Empire in modern day Afghanistan






31. Anglo-Mysore Wars






32. EastIndia Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle Opium into China.






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






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






35. James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia






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






37. The Bengal famine of 1770 killed one third of the Bengal population.






38. Revolt in the Vend






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






40. Maratha Empire defeated at Battle of Panipat






41. War of the Austrian Succession






42. Forty-seven Ronin attack Kira Yoshinaka and then commit seppuku in Japan.






43. Revolt in the Vend






44. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






45. Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'






46. The French and Indian War - Fought in the U.S. and Canada mostly between the French and their allies and the English and their allies. The North American chapter of the Seven Years' War.






47. NorthwestIndian War between the United States and Native Americans






48. Establishment of the Sikh Confederacy along the present-dayIndia-Pakistan border.






49. Stamp Act introduced into the American colonies by the UK Parliament.






50. Outbreak of indigenous rebellion led by T







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