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18th Century Timeline

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1. Maratha Empire defeated at Battle of Panipat






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






3. Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments - thus establishing the Kingdom of Great Britain.






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






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






6. Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish






7. Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.






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






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






10. Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War and Third Carnatic War






11. Zand dynasty founded in Iran






12. Pinckney's Treaty between the United States and Spain granted the Mississippi Territory to the US.






13. Ashanti Empire is formed under Osei Kofi Tutu I






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






15. Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands






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






17. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






18. Nader Shah defeated the Mughals at the Battle of Karnal and sacked Delhi.






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






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






21. Gurkhas conquered Nepal.






22. French commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and British commander James Wolfe die during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.






23. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






24. The Great Upheaval - forced population transfer of the French Acadian population from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick






25. George III became King of Britain.






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






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






28. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






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






30. Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire






31. Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt






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






33. Xhosa Wars between British and Boer settlers and the Xhosas in South African Republic






34. Russo-Turkish War.






35. John Harrison H4 and Larcum Kendall K1 Marine chronometers are used to measure longitude by James Cook on his Second voyage (1772






36. Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.






37. Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish






38. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






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






40. French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails






41. War of the Polish Succession.






42. Treaty of Constantinople is signed - partitioning Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.






43. 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






44. Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.






45. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






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






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






48. NorthwestIndian War between the United States and Native Americans






49. Famine in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands.






50. Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism incompatible