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18th Century Timeline

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1. Anglo-Mysore Wars






2. Treaty of Pondicherry ends Second Carnatic War and recognizes Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah as Nawab of the Carnatic.






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






4. James Cook becomes first European on the Hawaiian Islands.






5. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






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






7. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






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






9. Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery






10. Controversy over William Wood's halfpence leads to the Drapier's Letters and begins the Irish economic independence from England movement






11. Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt






12. Revolt in the Vend






13. War of the Spanish Succession - French troops defeated at the Battles of Ramilies and Turin.






14. Serfdom abolished in the Austrian monarchy (first step; second step in 1848)






15. Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans at the Battle of Nu'uanu.






16. War of the Spanish Succession - The French defeat a combined Dutch-Austrian force at the Battle of Denain






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






18. Kansei Reforms instituted in Japan by Matsudaira Sadanobu.






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






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






21. Napoleon staged a coup d'






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






23. Richard Arkwright and his partners build the world's first water-powered mill at Cromford.






24. Burmese conquered the Ayutthaya kingdom.






25. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






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. French commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and British commander James Wolfe die during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.






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






29. The Irish Rebellion failed to overthrow British rule in Ireland.






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






31. The Marseillaise officially adopted as the French national anthem.






32. Russo-Turkish War






33. Nader Shah defeated the Mughals at the Battle of Karnal and sacked Delhi.






34. The Irish Rebellion failed to overthrow British rule in Ireland.






35. Second Jacobite Rebellion began by Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland






36. Ashanti Empire is formed under Osei Kofi Tutu I






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. The R






45. Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery






46. Camisard Rebellion in France.






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






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






49. Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin Methodism in England






50. Qajar dynasty founded in Iran after replacing the Zand dynasty.