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18th Century Timeline

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1. Mungo Park - backed by the African Association - is the first European to set eyes on the Niger River in Africa.






2. James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia






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






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






5. Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I






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






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






8. Tipu Sultan was killed in a battle with the British forces.






9. Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.






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






11. Mungo Park - backed by the African Association - is the first European to set eyes on the Niger River in Africa.






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






13. First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.






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






15. Famine in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands.






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






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






18. Camisard Rebellion in France.






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






20. 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.






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






22. The Plague Riot in Moscow.






23. Treaty of Nystad signed - ending the Great Northern War.






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






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






26. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.






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






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






29. Russo-Turkish War






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






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






32. The White Lotus Rebellion against the Manchu Dynasty in China.






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






34. Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery






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






36. 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






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






38. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






39. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






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






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






42. End of Japan's Genroku period.






43. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






44. Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.






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






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






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






48. United States Constitution was written in Philadelphia and submitted to the states for ratification.






49. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.






50. Tipu Sultan was killed in a battle with the British forces.