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18th Century Timeline
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1. War of the Spanish Succession was a conflict which involved most of Europe.
1742
1766
1701
1715
2. EastIndia Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle Opium into China.
1773
1787
1707
1703
3. Battle of Plassey signaled the beginning of formal British rule inIndia after years of commercial activity under the auspices of the EastIndia Company.
1736
1763
1793
1757
4. Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin Methodism in England
1771
1714
1729
1789
5. The Treaty of Paris formally ends the American War ofIndependence.
1711-1715
1703
1795
1783
6. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails
1710-1711
1796
1704
1744
7. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia
1796
1740
1722
1707
8. Great Northern War between Tsarist Russia and the Swedish Empire
1795
1730
1700-1721
1762
9. Kangxi Emperor of China dies
1703
1710-1711
1722
1783
10. First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.
1788
1725
1794
1738
11. NorthwestIndian War between the United States and Native Americans
1799
1732
1785
1718
12. The Second Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia
1740
1707
1748
1770
13. French commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and British commander James Wolfe die during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
1740
1769
1759
1713
14. First Jacobite rebellion breaks out - British halt Jacobite advance at the Battle of Sheriffmuir; Battle of Preston
1707
1771
1779
1715
15. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.
1779
1792
1770
1706
16. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.
1721
1707
1795
1740
17. Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish
1762
1738
1772
1798
18. Gurkhas conquered Nepal.
1727
1768
1715
1770
19. United States Declaration ofIndependence adopted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
1707
1776
1766
1781
20. Pinckney's Treaty between the United States and Spain granted the Mississippi Territory to the US.
1766
1793
1795
1788
21. War of 27 years between the Marathas and Mughals ends inIndia.
1783
1792
1722
1707
22. Cotton mills were first opened in England
1754
1772
1727
1742
23. First French Quaker community established in Cong
1754
1720
1715
1788
24. Slavery abolished in Russia. Peter the Great converted the household slaves into house serfs
1718-1730
1707
1760
1723
25. 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.
1772
1754
1740
1761
26. Russo-Turkish War.
1735
1793
1744
1701
27. American Revolutionary War
1738
1794
1775
1781
28. The Partitions of Poland ended the Polish
1790
1772
1711-1715
1769
29. The Constitutional Act (Or Canada Act) creates the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada in British North America.
1735
1769
1740
1791
30. 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.
1738
1789
1785
1792
31. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands
1756
1744
1755
1741
32. Polish revolt
1794
1715
1760
1787
33. Handel's first opera - Almira - premieres.
1739
1790
1705
1796
34. Maratha Empire fights Britain and Raghunathrao's forces during theFirst Anglo-Maratha War
1772
1798
1705
1721
35. 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
1781
1796
1726
1715
36. Treaty of Nystad signed - ending the Great Northern War.
1793
1707
1721
1748
37. The largest yellow fever epidemic in American history killed as many as 5000 people in Philadelphia
1763
1793
1740
1795
38. Ashanti Empire is formed under Osei Kofi Tutu I
1738
1797
1771
1701
39. George III became King of Britain.
1709
1718
1760
1775
40. Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism incompatible
1715
1738
1702
1756
41. Establishment of the French-backed Batavian Republic in present-day Netherlands.
1723
1791
1795
1735
42. The Haitian Revolution
1762
1796
1791
1738
43. Peak of the Little Ice Age
1721
1789
1750
1771
44. Peak of the Little Ice Age
1744
1750
1735
1724
45. Charles XII of Sweden flees to Ottoman Empire after Peter I of Russia defeats his army at the Battle of Poltava.
1762
1709
1772
1730
46. Famine in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands.
1768
1769
1770
1700-1721
47. Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark.
1708
1772
1796
1758
48. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.
1722
1762
1796
1790
49. Treaty of Utrecht end the War of the Spanish Succession
1710-1711
1797
1725
1713
50. Kangxi Emperor bans Christian missionaries because of Pope Clement XI's decree
1775
1778
1770
1721