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18th Century Timeline

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1. Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire






2. British colonel James Wolfe issues the Wolfe's Manifesto






3. Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish






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






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






6. The South Sea Bubble






7. Cotton mills were first opened in England






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






9. First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.






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






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






12. Napoleon staged a coup d'






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






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






15. Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery






16. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.






17. The Fulani nomads took complete control of Fuuta Jallon and set up the first of many Fulani jihad states to come






18. George III became King of Britain.






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






20. Russo-Turkish War.






21. 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






22. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






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






24. Kangxi Emperor of China dies






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






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






27. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands






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






29. Revolt in the Vend






30. Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish






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






32. First French Quaker community established in Cong






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






34. Tipu Sultan was killed in a battle with the British forces.






35. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






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






37. James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia






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






39. Mungo Park - backed by the African Association - is the first European to set eyes on the Niger River in Africa.






40. Kingdom of Mysore conquers the Kingdom of Keladi






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






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






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






44. First French Quaker community established in Cong






45. Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.






46. Stamp Act introduced into the American colonies by the UK Parliament.






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






48. John Harrison H4 and Larcum Kendall K1 Marine chronometers are used to measure longitude by James Cook on his Second voyage (1772






49. Peak of the Little Ice Age






50. King Gustav III of Sweden was assassinated by a conspiracy of noblemen.