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18th Century Timeline

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1. Turlough O'Carolan - famous Irish harper - died.






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






3. Gurkhas conquered Nepal.






4. Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.






5. First Anglo-Maratha War






6. Russo-Persian War






7. War of the Polish Succession.






8. Kansei Reforms instituted in Japan by Matsudaira Sadanobu.






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






10. British colonel James Wolfe issues the Wolfe's Manifesto






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






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






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






14. Pope Clement XII issues the Eminenti Apostolatus Specula prohibiting Catholics from becoming Freemasons.






15. The 'Great Disaster'






16. The Fulani nomads took complete control of Fuuta Jallon and set up the first of many Fulani jihad states to come






17. First Anglo-Maratha War






18. Revolt in the Vend






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






20. The Fulani nomads took complete control of Fuuta Jallon and set up the first of many Fulani jihad states to come






21. Pinckney's Treaty between the United States and Spain granted the Mississippi Territory to the US.






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






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






24. The White Lotus Rebellion against the Manchu Dynasty in China.






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






26. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






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






28. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.






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






30. Maratha Empire fights Britain and Raghunathrao's forces during theFirst Anglo-Maratha War






31. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






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






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






34. Qing Dynasty Chinese court painters recreate Zhang Zeduan's classic panoramic painting - Along the River During Qingming Festival.






35. War of the Austrian Succession






36. Polish revolt






37. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






38. The Treaty of Paris formally ends the American War ofIndependence.






39. The Lisbon earthquake






40. The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the EastIndies and English Company Trading to the EastIndies merged to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the EastIndies.






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






42. First Great Awakening takes place in Great Britain and North America.






43. Treaty of Constantinople is signed - partitioning Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.






44. Maratha Empire defeated at Battle of Panipat






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






46. Russo-Turkish War.






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






48. Mungo Park - backed by the African Association - is the first European to set eyes on the Niger River in Africa.






49. 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.






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