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18th Century Timeline
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1. Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire
1795
1718-1730
1711-1715
1781
2. British colonel James Wolfe issues the Wolfe's Manifesto
1735
1758
1796
1771
3. Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish
1772
1793
1789
1750
4. The White Lotus Rebellion against the Manchu Dynasty in China.
1702
1748
1796
1788
5. The largest yellow fever epidemic in American history killed as many as 5000 people in Philadelphia
1789
1744
1741
1793
6. The South Sea Bubble
1729
1797
1781
1720
7. Cotton mills were first opened in England
1718
1772
1785
1742
8. Kangxi Emperor bans Christian missionaries because of Pope Clement XI's decree
1721
1727
1795
1780
9. First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.
1788
1727
1735
1759
10. Freed slaves from London founded Freetown in present-day Sierra Leone.
1794
1772
1763
1787
11. Treaty of Utrecht end the War of the Spanish Succession
1756
1713
1739
1794
12. Napoleon staged a coup d'
1744
1799
1720
1798
13. Tuscarora War between British - Dutch - and German settlers and the Tuscarora people of North Carolina
1711-1715
1715
1794
1707
14. French commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and British commander James Wolfe die during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
1759
1793
1768
1740
15. Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery
1708
1747
1741
1723
16. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.
1706
1762
1709
1713-1714
17. The Fulani nomads took complete control of Fuuta Jallon and set up the first of many Fulani jihad states to come
1725
1702
1701
1701
18. George III became King of Britain.
1738
1740
1760
1775
19. EastIndia Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle Opium into China.
1783
1773
1769
1723
20. Russo-Turkish War.
1799
1735
1793
1701
21. 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
1721
1766
1726
1707
22. Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground.
1795
1738
1707
1760
23. TheFirst Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia
1744
1701
1740
1781
24. Kangxi Emperor of China dies
1722
1704
1770
1750
25. Pope Clement XII issues the Eminenti Apostolatus Specula prohibiting Catholics from becoming Freemasons.
1738
1756
1741
1787
26. The Great French War started as the French Revolutionary Wars which lead into the Napoleonic Wars.
1795
1758
1792
1741
27. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands
1794
1716
1793
1741
28. Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans at the Battle of Nu'uanu.
1740
1719
1707
1795
29. Revolt in the Vend
1780
1793
1792
1772
30. Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish
1772
1702
1790
1718
31. Ahmed Shah Durrani founded the Durrani Empire in modern day Afghanistan
1747
1732
1779
1798
32. First French Quaker community established in Cong
1703
1788
1718
1792
33. George Washington elected President of the United States. Served until 1797.
1720
1772
1789
1718-1730
34. Tipu Sultan was killed in a battle with the British forces.
1707
1799
1748
1791
35. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails
1707
1795
1778
1744
36. Slavery abolished in Russia. Peter the Great converted the household slaves into house serfs
1720
1702
1709
1723
37. James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia
1748
1769
1740
1772
38. Forty-seven Ronin attack Kira Yoshinaka and then commit seppuku in Japan.
1785
1702
1762
1707
39. Mungo Park - backed by the African Association - is the first European to set eyes on the Niger River in Africa.
1722
1796
1792
1701
40. Kingdom of Mysore conquers the Kingdom of Keladi
1763
1748
1769
1789
41. The Netherlands - Britain and France sign the Triple Alliance
1768
1799
1717
1781
42. EastIndia Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle Opium into China.
1740
1770
1773
1776
43. The Daily Courant and The Norwich Post becomes the first daily newspapers in England.
1701
1721
1796
1795
44. First French Quaker community established in Cong
1788
1722
1775
1723
45. Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.
1793
1783
1701
1773
46. Stamp Act introduced into the American colonies by the UK Parliament.
1765
1796
1785
1705
47. Famine across the Sahel - half the population of Timbuktu died.
1738
1756
1721
1769
48. John Harrison H4 and Larcum Kendall K1 Marine chronometers are used to measure longitude by James Cook on his Second voyage (1772
1730
1775
1721
1754
49. Peak of the Little Ice Age
1760
1740
1740
1750
50. King Gustav III of Sweden was assassinated by a conspiracy of noblemen.
1767
1718-1730
1793
1792