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18th Century Timeline

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1. Anglo-Spanish War






2. Dutch EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






4. The Marseillaise officially adopted as the French national anthem.






5. Spanish military embarks on the Villasur expedition from Mexico and travel into the Great Plains






6. Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans at the Battle of Nu'uanu.






7. Camisard Rebellion in France.






8. Outbreak of indigenous rebellion led by T






9. War of the Polish Succession.






10. The Great Plague of Marseille






11. American Revolutionary War






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






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






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






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






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






17. Polish revolt






18. Famine in Ireland killed ten per cent of the population






19. Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia






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






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






22. Inconfid






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






24. Spanish military embarks on the Villasur expedition from Mexico and travel into the Great Plains






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






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






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






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






29. First Jacobite rebellion breaks out - British halt Jacobite advance at the Battle of Sheriffmuir; Battle of Preston






30. War of the Austrian Succession






31. The South Sea Bubble






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






33. 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.






34. Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I






35. First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.






36. British ejected Dutch from Ceylon.






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






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






39. Controversy over William Wood's halfpence leads to the Drapier's Letters and begins the Irish economic independence from England movement






40. The Second Carnatic War fought between the British - the French - the Marathas - and Mysore inIndia






41. Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.






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






43. First Anglo-Maratha War






44. The Qianlong Emperor of China oversaw a huge expansion in territory.






45. Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact






46. Russo-Turkish War






47. Peak of the Little Ice Age






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






49. James Cook becomes first European on the Hawaiian Islands.






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







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