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18th Century Timeline

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1. Inconfid






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






3. The Haitian Revolution






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






5. Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark.






6. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






7. Spanish attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






8. The Great Plague of Marseille






9. Outbreak of indigenous rebellion led by T






10. George Vancouver explores the world during the Vancouver Expedition.






11. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






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






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






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






15. Gurkhas conquered Nepal.






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






17. Kangxi Emperor of China dies






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






19. Outbreak of indigenous rebellion led by T






20. Russo-Turkish War.






21. NorthwestIndian War between the United States and Native Americans






22. Ottoman Empire fights Russia in the Russo-Turkish War






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire






31. Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I






32. Inconfid






33. Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I






34. Ottoman Empire fights Russia in the Russo-Turkish War






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






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






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






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






39. Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery






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






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






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






43. Cotton mills were first opened in England






44. Afghans conquered Iran - overthrowing the Safavid Shah Sultan Husayn






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






46. Famine in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands.






47. Kansei Reforms instituted in Japan by Matsudaira Sadanobu.






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






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






50. Zand dynasty founded in Iran