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18th Century Timeline

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1. War of the Spanish Succession was a conflict which involved most of Europe.






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






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






4. Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin Methodism in England






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






6. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






7. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






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






9. Kangxi Emperor of China dies






10. First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.






11. NorthwestIndian War between the United States and Native Americans






12. The Second Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia






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






14. First Jacobite rebellion breaks out - British halt Jacobite advance at the Battle of Sheriffmuir; Battle of Preston






15. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






16. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






17. Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish






18. Gurkhas conquered Nepal.






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






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






21. War of 27 years between the Marathas and Mughals ends inIndia.






22. Cotton mills were first opened in England






23. First French Quaker community established in Cong






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






25. 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.






26. Russo-Turkish War.






27. American Revolutionary War






28. The Partitions of Poland ended the Polish






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






30. 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.






31. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands






32. Polish revolt






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






34. Maratha Empire fights Britain and Raghunathrao's forces during theFirst Anglo-Maratha War






35. 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






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






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






38. Ashanti Empire is formed under Osei Kofi Tutu I






39. George III became King of Britain.






40. Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism incompatible






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






42. The Haitian Revolution






43. Peak of the Little Ice Age






44. Peak of the Little Ice Age






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






46. Famine in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands.






47. Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark.






48. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.






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






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