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18th Century Timeline

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1. King Gustav III of Sweden was assassinated by a conspiracy of noblemen.






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






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






4. United States Declaration ofIndependence adopted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.






5. Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism incompatible






6. Russo-Turkish War






7. Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.






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






9. Napoleon's invasion and partition of the Republic of Venice ended over 1000 years of independence for the Serene Republic.






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






11. Charles XII of Sweden flees to Ottoman Empire after Peter I of Russia defeats his army at the Battle of Poltava.






12. War of the Polish Succession.






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






14. The Haitian Revolution






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






16. Treaty of Nystad signed - ending the Great Northern War.






17. The Great Plague of Marseille






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






19. The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the EastIndies and English Company Trading to the EastIndies merged to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the EastIndies.






20. Polish revolt






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






22. Afghans conquered Iran - overthrowing the Safavid Shah Sultan Husayn






23. Napoleon staged a coup d'






24. Ashanti Empire is formed under Osei Kofi Tutu I






25. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






26. British ejected Dutch from Ceylon.






27. Treaty of Constantinople is signed - partitioning Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.






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






29. 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.






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






31. Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark.






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






33. James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia






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






35. Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan.






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






37. Great Britain and Spain fight the War of Jenkins' Ear in the Caribbean.






38. Peak of the Little Ice Age






39. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






40. Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'






41. War of the Austrian Succession






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






43. Napoleon staged a coup d'






44. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






45. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






46. 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






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






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






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






50. Inconfid