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18th Century Timeline

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






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






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






5. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






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






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






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






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






10. Russo-Turkish War.






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






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






13. Anglo-Mysore Wars






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






15. Richard Arkwright and his partners build the world's first water-powered mill at Cromford.






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






17. Robert Walpole became the first Prime Minister of Great Britain (de facto)






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






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






21. British attempt to capture St. Augustine - Florida but lose to the Spanish during the Siege of St. Augustine






22. Russo-Turkish War






23. Battle of Plassey signaled the beginning of formal British rule inIndia after years of commercial activity under the auspices of the EastIndia Company.






24. The Lisbon earthquake






25. James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia






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






27. The Haitian Revolution






28. Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin Methodism in England






29. Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery






30. After Aurangzeb's death - the Mughal Empire enters a long decline and the Maratha Empire slowly replaces it.






31. Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.






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






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






34. Russo-Turkish War.






35. Anglo-Spanish War






36. Kansei Reforms instituted in Japan by Matsudaira Sadanobu.






37. TheFirst Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia






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






39. Afghans conquered Iran - overthrowing the Safavid Shah Sultan Husayn






40. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






41. First Anglo-Maratha War






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. War of the Polish Succession.






49. 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.






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







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