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18th Century Timeline
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1. Anglo-Spanish War
1708
1739
1727
1736
2. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.
1779
1799
1739
1772
3. Pinckney's Treaty between the United States and Spain granted the Mississippi Territory to the US.
1722
1798
1795
1740
4. The Marseillaise officially adopted as the French national anthem.
1799
1795
1772
1722
5. Spanish military embarks on the Villasur expedition from Mexico and travel into the Great Plains
1720
1738
1793
1722
6. Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans at the Battle of Nu'uanu.
1772
1791
1795
1754
7. Camisard Rebellion in France.
1738
1772
1762
1702
8. Outbreak of indigenous rebellion led by T
1780
1735
1793
1754
9. War of the Polish Succession.
1733
1796
1748
1705
10. The Great Plague of Marseille
1714
1775
1720
1766
11. American Revolutionary War
1772
1769
1792
1775
12. Battle of Montenotte. Engagement in the War of theFirst Coalition. Napoleon Bonaparte's first victory as an army commander.
1796
1770
1757
1722
13. War of the Spanish Succession - French troops defeated at the Battles of Ramilies and Turin.
1706
1756
1762
1716
14. Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments - thus establishing the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1795
1796
1707
1799
15. EastIndia Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle Opium into China.
1799
1706
1779
1773
16. Robert Walpole became the first Prime Minister of Great Britain (de facto)
1744
1701
1741
1721
17. Polish revolt
1700-1721
1732
1739
1794
18. Famine in Ireland killed ten per cent of the population
1740
1779
1760
1772
19. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia
1701
1787
1740
1791
20. John Harrison H4 and Larcum Kendall K1 Marine chronometers are used to measure longitude by James Cook on his Second voyage (1772
1775
1795
1748
1740
21. Saint Petersburg founded by Peter the Great. Russian capital until 1918.
1703
1735
1798
1740
22. Inconfid
1788
1796
1707
1707
23. Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination. Smallpox killed an estimated 400000 Europeans each year during the 18th century (including five reigning monarchs).
1796
1769
1715
1730
24. Spanish military embarks on the Villasur expedition from Mexico and travel into the Great Plains
1767
1720
1712
1744
25. Qajar dynasty founded in Iran after replacing the Zand dynasty.
1794
1709
1776
1792
26. War of 27 years between the Marathas and Mughals ends inIndia.
1707
1762
1796
1772
27. Accession of George I - Elector of Hanover - to the throne of Great Britain
1715
1714
1760
1778
28. French commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and British commander James Wolfe die during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
1759
1789
1701
1703
29. First Jacobite rebellion breaks out - British halt Jacobite advance at the Battle of Sheriffmuir; Battle of Preston
1722
1785
1715
1722
30. War of the Austrian Succession
1796
1740
1799
1770
31. The South Sea Bubble
1776
1773
1720
1772
32. Tarabai establishes rival Maratha Empire government in Kolhapur against Chattrapati Shahu
1713-1714
1781
1701
1748
33. 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.
1702
1754
1787
1707
34. Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I
1718-1730
1709
1762
1701
35. First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.
1788
1730
1794
1736
36. British ejected Dutch from Ceylon.
1718-1730
1796
1772
1715
37. Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is killed by Robert Maynard in a North Carolina inlet on the inner side of Ocracoke Island
1791
1718
1710
1792
38. The assassination of the 14th Tu'i Kanokupolu - Tuku?aho - plunges Tonga into half a century of civil war.
1799
1715
1720
1738
39. Controversy over William Wood's halfpence leads to the Drapier's Letters and begins the Irish economic independence from England movement
1722
1754
1793
1792
40. The Second Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia
1718-1730
1748
1732
1790
41. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.
1727
1781
1707
1783
42. Handel's first opera - Almira - premieres.
1705
1772
1709
1726
43. First Anglo-Maratha War
1739
1775
1718
1797
44. The Qianlong Emperor of China oversaw a huge expansion in territory.
1735
1738
1771
1718-1730
45. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact
1787
1794
1790
1730
46. Russo-Turkish War
1768
1770
1787
1742
47. Peak of the Little Ice Age
1792
1744
1718-1730
1750
48. Great Britain and Spain fight the War of Jenkins' Ear in the Caribbean.
1701
1754
1707
1739
49. James Cook becomes first European on the Hawaiian Islands.
1772
1776
1744
1778
50. Charles XII of Sweden flees to Ottoman Empire after Peter I of Russia defeats his army at the Battle of Poltava.
1775
1709
1771
1793
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