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18th Century Timeline

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1. The French Revolution






2. The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the EastIndies and English Company Trading to the EastIndies merged to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the EastIndies.






3. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






4. The R






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






6. Russo-Persian War






7. Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism incompatible






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






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






10. Napoleon staged a coup d'






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






12. Great Britain and Spain dispute the Nootka Sound during the Nootka Crisis.






13. Saint Petersburg founded by Peter the Great. Russian capital until 1918.






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






15. First French Quaker community established in Cong






16. United States of Belgium proclaimed following the Brabant Revolution.






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






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






19. First Anglo-Maratha War






20. Famine kills one-third of East Prussia's population.






21. Inconfid






22. Camisard Rebellion in France.






23. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






24. Peak of the Little Ice Age






25. Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.






26. Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt






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






28. Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church






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






30. Saint Petersburg founded by Peter the Great. Russian capital until 1918.






31. The Plague Riot in Moscow.






32. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands






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






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






35. Qajar dynasty founded in Iran after replacing the Zand dynasty.






36. Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery






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






38. Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I






39. The Great Plague of Marseille






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






41. The Third Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia.






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






43. Nader Shah defeated the Mughals at the Battle of Karnal and sacked Delhi.






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






45. Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession andFirst Carnatic War






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






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






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






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






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