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18th Century Timeline

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






2. American Revolutionary War






3. Anglo-Mysore Wars






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






5. Russo-Turkish War






6. George Washington elected President of the United States. Served until 1797.






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






8. The R






9. The French Revolution






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






11. Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I






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






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






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






15. Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt






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






17. T






18. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands






19. War of the Austrian Succession






20. Polish revolt






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






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






23. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






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






25. War of the Polish Succession.






26. The Great French War started as the French Revolutionary Wars which lead into the Napoleonic Wars.






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






28. The 'Great Disaster'






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






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






31. The Great Plague of Marseille






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






33. Camisard Rebellion in France.






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






35. United States of Belgium proclaimed following the Brabant Revolution.






36. Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan.






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






38. British ejected Dutch from Ceylon.






39. Bartholomew Roberts is killed in a sea battle off the African coast






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






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






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






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






44. Polish revolt






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






46. Upper Canada bans slavery.






47. American Revolutionary War






48. The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the EastIndies and English Company Trading to the EastIndies merged to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the EastIndies.






49. Nader Shah assumed title of Shah of Persia and founded the Afsharid dynasty. Ruled until his death in 1747.






50. Qajar dynasty founded in Iran after replacing the Zand dynasty.







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