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18th Century Timeline

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1. Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I






2. Kangxi Emperor of China dies






3. NorthwestIndian War between the United States and Native Americans






4. Great Britain and Spain fight the War of Jenkins' Ear in the Caribbean.






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






6. 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.






7. Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark.






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






9. American Revolutionary War






10. Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.






11. The French Revolution






12. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






13. James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia






14. Battle of Montenotte. Engagement in the War of theFirst Coalition. Napoleon Bonaparte's first victory as an army commander.






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






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






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






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






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






20. Russo-Turkish War






21. Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church






22. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






24. Camisard Rebellion in France.






25. Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.






26. Anglo-Spanish War






27. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






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






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






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






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






32. Kangxi Emperor of China dies






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






34. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






35. Qing Dynasty Chinese court painters recreate Zhang Zeduan's classic panoramic painting - Along the River During Qingming Festival.






36. Imam Sheikh Mansur - a Chechen warrior and Muslim mystic - led a coalition of Muslim Caucasian tribes from throughout the Caucasus in a holy war against the Russian invaders.






37. James Cook claims the East Coast of Australia (New South Wales) for Great Britain.






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






39. Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.






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






41. Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan.






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






43. 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.






44. War of the Austrian Succession






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






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






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






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






50. Upper Canada bans slavery.







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