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18th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






5. Upper Canada bans slavery.






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






7. Inconfid






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






9. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






10. EastIndia Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle Opium into China.






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






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






13. Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination. Smallpox killed an estimated 400000 Europeans each year during the 18th century (including five reigning monarchs).






14. The 'Great Disaster'






15. Spanish military embarks on the Villasur expedition from Mexico and travel into the Great Plains






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






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






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






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






20. Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.






21. The Daily Courant and The Norwich Post becomes the first daily newspapers in England.






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






23. The world's first copyright legislation - Britain's Statute of Anne - becomes effective






24. Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession andFirst Carnatic War






25. British ejected Dutch from Ceylon.






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






27. The Second Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia






28. Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.






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






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






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






32. Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan.






33. Upper Canada bans slavery.






34. Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'






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






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






37. 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






38. TheFirst Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia






39. American Revolutionary War






40. The world's first copyright legislation - Britain's Statute of Anne - becomes effective






41. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands






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






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






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






45. Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire






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






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






48. 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.






49. Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin Methodism in England






50. The Lisbon earthquake