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18th Century Timeline

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






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






3. War of the Spanish Succession was a conflict which involved most of Europe.






4. Tipu Sultan was killed in a battle with the British forces.






5. Accession of George I - Elector of Hanover - to the throne of Great Britain






6. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






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






8. Anglo-Spanish War






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






10. First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.






11. American Revolutionary War






12. First Anglo-Maratha War






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






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






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






16. Cotton mills were first opened in England






17. John Harrison H4 and Larcum Kendall K1 Marine chronometers are used to measure longitude by James Cook on his Second voyage (1772






18. Spanish attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






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






20. Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt






21. John Harrison H4 and Larcum Kendall K1 Marine chronometers are used to measure longitude by James Cook on his Second voyage (1772






22. Camisard Rebellion in France.






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






24. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






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






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






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






28. The Haitian Revolution






29. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






30. The Constitutional Act (Or Canada Act) creates the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada in British North America.






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






32. After Aurangzeb's death - the Mughal Empire enters a long decline and the Maratha Empire slowly replaces it.






33. Burmese conquered the Ayutthaya kingdom.






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






35. Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.






36. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.






37. Gurkhas conquered Nepal.






38. Napoleon staged a coup d'






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






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






42. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






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






44. Xhosa Wars between British and Boer settlers and the Xhosas in South African Republic






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






46. Tipu Sultan was killed in a battle with the British forces.






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






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






49. Slavery abolished in Russia. Peter the Great converted the household slaves into house serfs






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