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18th Century Timeline

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






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






4. Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'






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






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






7. City of New Orleans founded by the French in North America






8. 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






9. Russo-Turkish War






10. Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.






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






12. Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire






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






14. The R






15. The Lisbon earthquake






16. Kangxi Emperor of China dies






17. The assassination of the 14th Tu'i Kanokupolu - Tuku?aho - plunges Tonga into half a century of civil war.






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






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






20. Kangxi Emperor of China dies






21. War of the Austrian Succession






22. 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.






23. Establishment of the Sikh Confederacy along the present-dayIndia-Pakistan border.






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






25. The Qianlong Emperor of China oversaw a huge expansion in territory.






26. Maratha Empire defeated at Battle of Panipat






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






28. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






29. Camisard Rebellion in France.






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






31. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands






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






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






34. 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.






35. The French Revolution






36. Zand dynasty founded in Iran






37. Upper Canada bans slavery.






38. Famine in Iceland caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano.






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






40. Serfdom abolished in the Austrian monarchy (first step; second step in 1848)






41. The South Sea Bubble






42. The Partitions of Poland ended the Polish






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






44. First Anglo-Maratha War






45. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.






46. Revolt in the Vend






47. The assassination of the 14th Tu'i Kanokupolu - Tuku?aho - plunges Tonga into half a century of civil war.






48. Revolt in the Vend






49. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands






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