Test your basic knowledge |

18th Century Timeline

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Qing Dynasty Chinese court painters recreate Zhang Zeduan's classic panoramic painting - Along the River During Qingming Festival.






2. First Anglo-Maratha War






3. 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.






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






5. 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.






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






7. British ejected Dutch from Ceylon.






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






9. Establishment of the French-backed Batavian Republic in present-day Netherlands.






10. First Anglo-Maratha War






11. Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire






12. Anglo-Mysore Wars






13. Controversy over William Wood's halfpence leads to the Drapier's Letters and begins the Irish economic independence from England movement






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






15. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






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






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






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






19. The Second Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia






20. Kangxi Emperor of China dies






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






22. Xhosa Wars between British and Boer settlers and the Xhosas in South African Republic






23. The Great Plague of Marseille






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






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






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






27. The Second Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia






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






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






30. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






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






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






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






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






35. The Lisbon earthquake






36. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






37. The R






38. Cotton mills were first opened in England






39. Napoleon staged a coup d'






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






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






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






43. Famine in Ireland killed ten per cent of the population






44. George III became King of Britain.






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






50. The Great Plague of Marseille