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18th Century Timeline

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1. Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'






2. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






3. Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark.






4. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






5. NorthwestIndian War between the United States and Native Americans






6. Cotton mills were first opened in England






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






8. Kangxi Emperor of China dies






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






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






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






12. Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination. Smallpox killed an estimated 400000 Europeans each year during the 18th century (including five reigning monarchs).






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






14. Russo-Persian War






15. Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan.






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






17. George Vancouver explores the world during the Vancouver Expedition.






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






19. War of the Austrian Succession






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






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






22. Peak of the Little Ice Age






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






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






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






26. First French Quaker community established in Cong






27. Bartholomew Roberts is killed in a sea battle off the African coast






28. Upper Canada bans slavery.






29. The Plague Riot in Moscow.






30. The Haitian Revolution






31. Russo-Turkish War






32. 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.






33. Russo-Turkish War






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






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






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






37. Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt






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






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






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






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






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






43. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






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






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






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






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






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






49. Handel's first opera - Almira - premieres.






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