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18th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Russo-Turkish War.






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






5. George III became King of Britain.






6. The Irish Rebellion failed to overthrow British rule in Ireland.






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






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






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






10. Russo-Turkish War






11. Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish






12. The Haitian Revolution






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






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






15. Seven Years' War fought among European powers in various theaters around the world.






16. Anglo-Spanish War






17. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






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






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






20. Zand dynasty founded in Iran






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






22. 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.






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






24. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.






25. Spanish military embarks on the Villasur expedition from Mexico and travel into the Great Plains






26. Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church






27. James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia






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






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






30. Peak of the Little Ice Age






31. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






32. Camisard Rebellion in France.






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






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






35. First Anglo-Maratha War






36. The 'Great Disaster'






37. Tarabai establishes rival Maratha Empire government in Kolhapur against Chattrapati Shahu






38. British ejected Dutch from Ceylon.






39. The South Sea Bubble






40. Polish revolt






41. Russo-Turkish War






42. The 'Great Disaster'






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






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






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






46. Gurkhas conquered Nepal.






47. The White Lotus Rebellion against the Manchu Dynasty in China.






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






49. Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.






50. Ottoman Empire fights Russia in the Russo-Turkish War






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