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18th Century Timeline

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1. First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.






2. The world's first copyright legislation - Britain's Statute of Anne - becomes effective






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






4. Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.






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






6. New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution as the 9th state - and by the terms of Article VII it is in effect.






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






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






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






10. War of 27 years between the Marathas and Mughals ends inIndia.






11. The French Revolution






12. Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church






13. Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin Methodism in England






14. Anglo-Spanish War






15. The 'Great Disaster'






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






17. 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.






18. Russo-Persian War






19. Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.






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






21. Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism incompatible






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






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






24. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






26. The Great French War started as the French Revolutionary Wars which lead into the Napoleonic Wars.






27. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






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






29. Kansei Reforms instituted in Japan by Matsudaira Sadanobu.






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






31. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.






32. The Great French War started as the French Revolutionary Wars which lead into the Napoleonic Wars.






33. End of Japan's Genroku period.






34. The enormous Chinese encyclopedia Gujin Tushu Jicheng of over 100 million written Chinese characters in over 800000 pages is printed in 60 different copies using copper-based Chinese movable type printing






35. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






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






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






38. Russo-Turkish War






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






40. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






41. 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.






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






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






44. Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark.






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






46. Gurkhas conquered Nepal.






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






48. Kangxi Emperor of China dies






49. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






50. Slavery abolished in Russia. Peter the Great converted the household slaves into house serfs