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18th Century Timeline

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1. Quasi-War between the United States and France.






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






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






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






5. 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.






6. War of the Spanish Succession - The French defeat a combined Dutch-Austrian force at the Battle of Denain






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






8. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






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






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






11. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






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






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






15. War of the Spanish Succession - The French defeat a combined Dutch-Austrian force at the Battle of Denain






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






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






18. Treaty of Constantinople is signed - partitioning Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.






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






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21. Napoleon staged a coup d'






22. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.






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






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






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






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






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






28. Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I






29. End of Japan's Genroku period.






30. 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.






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32. The Netherlands - Britain and France sign the Triple Alliance






33. Second Jacobite Rebellion began by Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland






34. 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.






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






36. Anglo-Spanish War






37. Camisard Rebellion in France.






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






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






40. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






41. Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire






42. Burmese conquered the Ayutthaya kingdom.






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






44. Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.






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






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






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






48. Gurkhas conquered Nepal.






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






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