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18th Century Timeline

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1. Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark.






2. Ahmed Shah Durrani founded the Durrani Empire in modern day Afghanistan






3. Camisard Rebellion in France.






4. Zand dynasty founded in Iran






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






6. Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism incompatible






7. James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia






8. The French and Indian War - Fought in the U.S. and Canada mostly between the French and their allies and the English and their allies. The North American chapter of the Seven Years' War.






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






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






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






12. Outbreak of indigenous rebellion led by T






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






14. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands






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






16. James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia






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






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






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






20. The Daily Courant and The Norwich Post becomes the first daily newspapers in England.






21. First Anglo-Maratha War






22. First Anglo-Maratha War






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






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






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






26. Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church






27. New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.






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






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






30. The Plague Riot in Moscow.






31. The French and Indian War - Fought in the U.S. and Canada mostly between the French and their allies and the English and their allies. The North American chapter of the Seven Years' War.






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






33. The Lisbon earthquake






34. Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I






35. Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church






36. The Plague Riot in Moscow.






37. British colonel James Wolfe issues the Wolfe's Manifesto






38. American Revolutionary War






39. The South Sea Bubble






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






41. Accession of George I - Elector of Hanover - to the throne of Great Britain






42. George Washington elected President of the United States. Served until 1797.






43. Burmese conquered the Ayutthaya kingdom.






44. George Washington elected President of the United States. Served until 1797.






45. Treaty of Pondicherry ends Second Carnatic War and recognizes Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah as Nawab of the Carnatic.






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






47. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






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






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






50. 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.