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18th Century Timeline

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1. Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination. Smallpox killed an estimated 400000 Europeans each year during the 18th century (including five reigning monarchs).






2. Napoleon staged a coup d'






3. Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark.






4. Russo-Persian War






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






6. City of New Orleans founded by the French in North America






7. Peak of the Little Ice Age






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






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






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11. The Great Plague of Marseille






12. Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.






13. Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.






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






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






16. NorthwestIndian War between the United States and Native Americans






17. Great Frost of 1709 - coldest winter in 500 years.






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






19. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands






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






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






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






23. Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments - thus establishing the Kingdom of Great Britain.






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






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






26. Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish






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






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






29. George Vancouver explores the world during the Vancouver Expedition.






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






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






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






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34. Quasi-War between the United States and France.






35. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






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






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






39. The Daily Courant and The Norwich Post becomes the first daily newspapers in England.






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






41. Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery






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






44. Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination. Smallpox killed an estimated 400000 Europeans each year during the 18th century (including five reigning monarchs).






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






46. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






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






48. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






49. Turlough O'Carolan - famous Irish harper - died.






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