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18th Century Timeline

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1. James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia






2. Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish






3. Famine in Iceland caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano.






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






5. Kangxi Emperor bans Christian missionaries because of Pope Clement XI's decree






6. Cotton mills were first opened in England






7. James Cook claims the East Coast of Australia (New South Wales) for Great Britain.






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






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






10. Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark.






11. Russo-Turkish War






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






13. Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire






14. Zand dynasty founded in Iran






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






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






17. Gurkhas conquered Nepal.






18. The South Sea Bubble






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






20. Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark.






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






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






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






24. Upper Canada bans slavery.






25. Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments - thus establishing the Kingdom of Great Britain.






26. Spanish missionaries established the first of 21 missions in California.






27. Establishment of the French-backed Batavian Republic in present-day Netherlands.






28. 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.






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






30. The French Revolution






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






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






33. Russo-Turkish War






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






36. Revolt in the Vend






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






38. Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan.






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






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






41. Famine in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands.






42. Saint Petersburg founded by Peter the Great. Russian capital until 1918.






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






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






45. Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery






46. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






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






48. Revolt in the Vend






49. Ahmed Shah Durrani founded the Durrani Empire in modern day Afghanistan






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