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18th Century Timeline

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1. Kansei Reforms instituted in Japan by Matsudaira Sadanobu.






2. Russo-Turkish War






3. Cotton mills were first opened in England






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






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






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






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






8. Handel's first opera - Almira - premieres.






9. Kansei Reforms instituted in Japan by Matsudaira Sadanobu.






10. George III became King of Britain.






11. Famine in Ireland killed ten per cent of the population






12. 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.






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






14. Russo-Turkish War






15. Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.






16. Inconfid






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






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






19. Polish revolt






20. United States of Belgium proclaimed following the Brabant Revolution.






21. The 'Great Disaster'






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






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






24. Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan.






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






31. Gurkhas conquered Nepal.






32. End of Japan's Genroku period.






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






34. Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt






35. First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.






36. George Washington elected President of the United States. Served until 1797.






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






38. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.






39. T






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






41. Revolt in the Vend






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






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






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






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






46. Outbreak of indigenous rebellion led by T






47. Kangxi Emperor bans Christian missionaries because of Pope Clement XI's decree






48. Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church






49. Anglo-Mysore Wars






50. American Revolutionary War