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18th Century Timeline

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1. Russo-Persian War






2. Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.






3. Russo-Turkish War






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






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






6. Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt






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






8. Napoleon staged a coup d'






9. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






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






11. First Anglo-Maratha War






12. James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia






13. Bartholomew Roberts is killed in a sea battle off the African coast






14. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






15. War of the Polish Succession.






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






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






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






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






20. Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.






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






22. British ejected Dutch from Ceylon.






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






24. Kansei Reforms instituted in Japan by Matsudaira Sadanobu.






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






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






27. The Great Plague of Marseille






28. Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin Methodism in England






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






30. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






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






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






33. 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.






34. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






35. Ashanti Empire is formed under Osei Kofi Tutu I






36. The Netherlands - Britain and France sign the Triple Alliance






37. The Treaty of Paris formally ends the American War ofIndependence.






38. The Treaty of Paris formally ends the American War ofIndependence.






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






40. Revolt in the Vend






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






42. Revolt in the Vend






43. Russo-Turkish War.






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






45. The Lisbon earthquake






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.






49. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






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