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18th Century Timeline

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1. Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.






2. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






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






4. Spanish attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






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






6. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






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






8. First Anglo-Maratha War






9. After Aurangzeb's death - the Mughal Empire enters a long decline and the Maratha Empire slowly replaces it.






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






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






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






13. United States Constitution was written in Philadelphia and submitted to the states for ratification.






14. Anglo-Mysore Wars






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






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






17. War of the Austrian Succession






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






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






20. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






21. British attempt to capture St. Augustine - Florida but lose to the Spanish during the Siege of St. Augustine






22. First French Quaker community established in Cong






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






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






25. Upper Canada bans slavery.






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






27. Cotton mills were first opened in England






28. Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church






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






30. Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin Methodism in England






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






32. James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia






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






34. Inconfid






35. Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination. Smallpox killed an estimated 400000 Europeans each year during the 18th century (including five reigning monarchs).






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






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






38. First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.






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






40. Turlough O'Carolan - famous Irish harper - died.






41. Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark.






42. Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I






43. Turlough O'Carolan - famous Irish harper - died.






44. War of the Spanish Succession - French troops defeated at the Battles of Ramilies and Turin.






45. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






46. 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






47. United States Constitution was written in Philadelphia and submitted to the states for ratification.






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






49. Napoleon staged a coup d'






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