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18th Century Timeline

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1. Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery






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






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






4. Ashanti Empire is formed under Osei Kofi Tutu I






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






6. Inconfid






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






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






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






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






11. Kingdom of Mysore conquers the Kingdom of Keladi






12. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






13. Kingdom of Mysore conquers the Kingdom of Keladi






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






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






16. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands






17. The Lisbon earthquake






18. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






19. 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.






20. Revolt in the Vend






21. Great Frost of 1709 - coldest winter in 500 years.






22. Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin Methodism in England






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






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






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






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






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






28. War of the Austrian Succession






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






30. Charles XII of Sweden flees to Ottoman Empire after Peter I of Russia defeats his army at the Battle of Poltava.






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






32. The 'Great Disaster'






33. TheFirst Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud






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






35. Louis XIV dies - leaving France greatly enlarged but deep in debt - The Regency takes power under Philippe d'Orleans






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






37. First Anglo-Maratha War






38. Napoleon's invasion and partition of the Republic of Venice ended over 1000 years of independence for the Serene Republic.






39. Spanish attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






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






41. Pugachev's Rebellion was the largest peasant revolt in Russia's history.






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






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






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






45. The South Sea Bubble






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






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






48. 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.






49. Napoleon's invasion and partition of the Republic of Venice ended over 1000 years of independence for the Serene Republic.






50. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails