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18th Century Timeline

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1. The Plague Riot in Moscow.






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






3. Cotton mills were first opened in England






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






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






6. Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism incompatible






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






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






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






10. Stamp Act introduced into the American colonies by the UK Parliament.






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






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






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14. Jay's Treaty concluded between Great Britain and the United States - by which the Western outposts in the Great Lakes are returned to the U.S. - and commerce between the two countries is regulated.






15. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






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






18. 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






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






20. Kansei Reforms instituted in Japan by Matsudaira Sadanobu.






21. British attempt to capture St. Augustine - Florida but lose to the Spanish during the Siege of St. Augustine






22. Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church






23. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands






24. Outbreak of indigenous rebellion led by T






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






26. The Haitian Revolution






27. Russo-Turkish War.






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






29. Burmese conquered the Ayutthaya kingdom.






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






31. Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is killed by Robert Maynard in a North Carolina inlet on the inner side of Ocracoke Island






32. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.






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






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






35. Great Northern War between Tsarist Russia and the Swedish Empire






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






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






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






40. Treaty of Nystad signed - ending the Great Northern War.






41. The largest yellow fever epidemic in American history killed as many as 5000 people in Philadelphia






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






43. Spanish attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






44. Revolt in the Vend






45. Russo-Turkish War.






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






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






48. British ejected Dutch from Ceylon.






49. George III became King of Britain.






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