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18th Century Timeline

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






2. Anglo-Spanish War






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






4. Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan.






5. Anglo-Mysore Wars






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






7. Upper Canada bans slavery.






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






9. The Plague Riot in Moscow.






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






12. Famine in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands.






13. The Partitions of Poland ended the Polish






14. End of Japan's Genroku period.






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






16. Famine in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands.






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






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






19. Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I






20. Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession andFirst Carnatic War






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






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






23. The Lisbon earthquake






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






25. Forty-seven Ronin attack Kira Yoshinaka and then commit seppuku in Japan.






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






27. The 'Great Disaster'






28. The Lisbon earthquake






29. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






30. Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.






31. Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.






32. Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.






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






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






35. The South Sea Bubble






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






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






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






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






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41. Revolt in the Vend






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43. Accession of George I - Elector of Hanover - to the throne of Great Britain






44. Napoleon's invasion and partition of the Republic of Venice ended over 1000 years of independence for the Serene Republic.






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






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






47. Pugachev's Rebellion was the largest peasant revolt in Russia's history.






48. Qing Dynasty Chinese court painters recreate Zhang Zeduan's classic panoramic painting - Along the River During Qingming Festival.






49. Imam Sheikh Mansur - a Chechen warrior and Muslim mystic - led a coalition of Muslim Caucasian tribes from throughout the Caucasus in a holy war against the Russian invaders.






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