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18th Century Timeline

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1. Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.






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






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






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






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






6. Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark.






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






8. Great Northern War between Tsarist Russia and the Swedish Empire






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






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






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






12. The Great Plague of Marseille






13. Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I






14. Burmese conquered the Ayutthaya kingdom.






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






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17. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






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






19. Ashanti Empire is formed under Osei Kofi Tutu I






20. Cotton mills were first opened in England






21. American Revolutionary War






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






23. Upper Canada bans slavery.






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






25. Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.






26. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






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






28. The Bengal famine of 1770 killed one third of the Bengal population.






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






30. The Haitian Revolution






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






32. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






33. War of 27 years between the Marathas and Mughals ends inIndia.






34. Ottoman Empire fights Russia in the Russo-Turkish War






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






36. 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






37. Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.






38. Russo-Turkish War






39. Seven Years' War fought among European powers in various theaters around the world.






40. New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution as the 9th state - and by the terms of Article VII it is in effect.






41. Zand dynasty founded in Iran






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






43. Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery






44. Kangxi Emperor of China dies






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






46. The Lisbon earthquake






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






48. Maratha Empire defeated at Battle of Panipat






49. The Partitions of Poland ended the Polish






50. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.