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18th Century Timeline

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1. Famine across the Sahel - half the population of Timbuktu died.






2. Louis XIV dies - leaving France greatly enlarged but deep in debt - The Regency takes power under Philippe d'Orleans






3. Polish revolt






4. Gurkhas conquered Nepal.






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






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






7. First Anglo-Maratha War






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






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






10. War of the Polish Succession.






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






12. Famine in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands.






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






14. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






15. TheFirst Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud






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






17. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






19. Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire






20. 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






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






22. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






23. The Bengal famine of 1770 killed one third of the Bengal population.






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






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






26. Battle of Plassey signaled the beginning of formal British rule inIndia after years of commercial activity under the auspices of the EastIndia Company.






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






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






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






30. The Constitutional Act (Or Canada Act) creates the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada in British North America.






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






32. End of Japan's Genroku period.






33. Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan.






34. 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.






35. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






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






38. Treaty of Utrecht end the War of the Spanish Succession






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






40. The Netherlands - Britain and France sign the Triple Alliance






41. Famine across the Sahel - half the population of Timbuktu died.






42. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






43. The Haitian Revolution






44. King Gustav III of Sweden was assassinated by a conspiracy of noblemen.






45. United States Declaration ofIndependence adopted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.






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






47. Napoleon staged a coup d'






48. Revolt in the Vend






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






50. Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism incompatible