Great Events from History: The 18th century, 1701-1800 [1] 1587653087, 9781587653087

Table of contents :
Contents
Publisher’s Note
Contributors
Keyword List of Contents
List of Maps, Tables, and Sidebars
Maps of the Eighteenth Century
1700’s
18th century, Expansion of the Atlantic Slave Trade
c. 1701, Oman Captures Zanzibar
1701, Plumier Publishes L’Art de tourner
1701, Tull Invents the Seed Drill
c. 1701-1721, Great Northern War
c. 1701-1750, Bach Pioneers Modern Music
February 4, 1701-February 4, 1703, Revenge of the Forty-Seven Ronin
May 26, 1701-September 7, 1714, War of the Spanish Succession
June 12, 1701, Act of Settlement
July 9, 1701, Marsh Builds Ireland’s First Public Library
1702 or 1706, First Arabic Printing Press
May 15, 1702-April 11, 1713, Queen Anne’s War
July 24, 1702-October 1, 1704, Camisard Risings in the Cévennes
1703-1711, Hungarian Revolt Against Habsburg Rule
May 27, 1703, Founding of St. Petersburg
June 20, 1703, Chikamatsu Produces The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
1704, Newton Publishes Optics
1704-1712, Astronomy Wars in England
1704-1757, Javanese Wars of Succession
August 13, 1704, Battle of Blenheim
1705, Halley Predicts the Return of a Comet
1705-1712, Newcomen Develops the Steam Engine
February, 1706-April 28, 1707, Act of Union Unites England and Scotland
March 23-26, 1708, Defeat of the “Old Pretender”
1709, Darby Invents Coke-Smelting
c. 1709, Invention of the Piano
1709-1747, Persian-Afghan Wars
June 27, 1709, Battle of Poltava
September 11, 1709, Battle of Malplaquet
1710’s
November 20, 1710-July 21, 1718, Ottoman Wars with Russia, Venice, and Austria
March 1, 1711, Addison and Steele Establish The Spectator
September 22, 1711-March 23, 1713, Tuscarora War
December, 1711, Occasional Conformity Bill
1712, Philip V Founds the Royal Library of Spain
1712, Stamp Act ,
April 6, 1712, New York City Slave Revolt
April 13-August 11, 1712, Second Villmergen War
August, 1712, Maya Rebellion in Chiapas
1713, Founding of Louisbourg ,
April 11, 1713, Treaty of Utrecht
August 3, 1713, Foundation of the Spanish Academy
September 8, 1713, Papal Bull Unigenitus
1714, Fahrenheit Develops the Mercury Thermometer
1714- 1762, Quest for Longitude
January 7, 1714, Mill Patents the Typewriter
March 7, 1714, and September 7, 1714, Treaties of Rastatt and Baden
Summer, 1714-1741, Fox Wars
1715-1737, Building of the Karlskirche
September 6, 1715-February 4, 1716, Jacobite Rising in Scotland
1718, Bernoulli Publishes His Calculus of Variations
1718, Geoffroy Issues the Table of Reactivities
1718-1730, Tulip Age
1719-1724, Stukeley Studies Stonehenge and Avebury
April 25, 1719, Defoe Publishes the First Novel
1720’s
1720, Financial Collapse of the John Law System
May, 1720-December, 1721, Last Major Outbreak of Plague
September, 1720, Collapse of the South Sea Bubble
December, 1720, Japan Lifts Ban on Foreign Books
1721-1742, Development of Great Britain’s Office of Prime Minister
1721-1750, Early Enlightenment in France
1722, Réaumur Discovers Carbon’s Role in Hardening Steel
April 5, 1722, European Discovery of Easter Island
1723, Stahl Postulates the Phlogiston Theory
1724, Foundation of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
1725, Flamsteed’s Star Catalog Marks the Transition to Modern Astronomy
1725-November, 1794, Persian Civil Wars
October, 1725, Vico Publishes The New Science
1726, Swift Satirizes English Rule of Ireland in Gulliver’s Travels
1726-1729, Voltaire Advances Enlightenment Thought in Europe
May, 1727-1733, Jansenist “Convulsionnaires” Gather at Saint-Médard
October 21, 1727, Treaty of Kiakhta
January 29, 1728, Gay Produces the First Ballad Opera
July, 1728-1769, Russian Voyages to Alaska
1729, Gray Discovers Principles of Electric Conductivity
November 9, 1729, and February, 1732, Treaty of Seville
1730’s
1730-1739, First Maroon War
c. 1732, Society of Dilettanti Is Established
June 20, 1732, Settlement of Georgia
December 7, 1732, Covent Garden Theatre Opens in London
1733, De Moivre Describes the Bell-Shaped Curve
1733, Du Fay Discovers Two Kinds of Electric Charge
1733, Kay Invents the Flying Shuttle
October 10, 1733-October 3, 1735, War of the Polish Succession
November 23, 1733, Slaves Capture St. John’s Island
1735, Hadley Describes Atmospheric Circulation
Beginning 1735, Linnaeus Creates the Binomial System of Classification
May, 1735-1743, French Scientists Explore the Amazon River
August 4, 1735, Trial of John Peter Zenger
1736, Gentleman"s Magazine Initiates Parliamentary Reporting
1736-1739, Russo-Austrian War Against the Ottoman Empire
1737, Revival of the Paris Salon
September 19, 1737, Walking Purchase
1738, Bernoulli Proposes the Kinetic Theory of Gases
May 15, 1738, Foundation of St. Petersburg’s Imperial Ballet School
November 18, 1738, Treaty of Vienna
1739-1740, Hume Publishes A Treatise of Human Nature
1739-1741, War of Jenkins’s Ear
1739-1742, First Great Awakening
September 9, 1739, Stono Rebellion
September 18, 1739, Treaty of Belgrade
1740’s
1740, Maclaurin’s Gravitational Theory
1740-1741, Richardson’s Pamela Establishes the Modem Novel
May 31, 1740, Accession of Frederick the Great
October 20, 1740, Maria Theresa Succeeds to the Austrian Throne
December 16, 1740-November 7, 1748, War of the Austrian Succession
1741, Leadhills Reading Society Promotes Literacy
1742, Celsius Proposes an International Fixed Temperature Scale
1742, Fielding’s Joseph Andrews Satirizes English Society
April 13, 1742, First Performance of Handel’s Messiah
1743-1744, D’Alembert Develops His Axioms of Motion
January 24, 1744-August 31, 1829, Dagohoy Rebellion in the Philippines
1745, Lomonosov Issues the First Catalog of Minerals
August 19, 1745-September 20, 1746, Jacobite Rebellion
October, 1745, and January, 1746, Invention of the Leyden Jar
1746, Roebuck Develops the Lead-Chamber Process
1746, Zahir al-TJmar Creates a Stronghold in Galilee
1746-1754, Carnatic Wars
1746-1755, Johnson Creates the First Modern English Dictionary
1747, Marggraf Extracts Sugar from Beets
1748, Agnesi Publishes Analytical Institutions
1748, Bradley Discovers the Nutation of Earth’s Axis
1748, Euler Develops the Concept of Function
1748, Excavation of Pompeii
1748, Montesquieu Publishes The Spirit of the Laws
1748, Nollet Discovers Osmosis -
1748-1755, Construction of Istanbul’s Nur-u Osmaniye Complex
October 18, 1748, Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
1749-1789, First Comprehensive Examination of the Natural World
June 10, 1749, Sacid Becomes Ruler of Oman
1750’s
1750, Treaty of Madrid
1750- 1792, China Consolidates Control over Tibet
March 20, 1750-March 14, 1752, Johnson Issues The Rambler
1751, Maupertuis Provides Evidence of “Hereditary Particles”
1751-1772, Diderot Publishes the Encyclopedia
1752-March, 1756, Mayer’s Lunar Tables Enable Mariners to Determine Longitude at Sea
1752-1760, Alaungpaya Unites Burma
June, 1752, Franklin Demonstrates the Electrical Nature of Lightning
1753, Lind Discovers a Cure for Scurvy
1754, Biisching Publishes A New System of Geography
1754, Condillac Defends Sensationalist Theory
May 28, 1754-February 10, 1763, French and Indian War
June 19-July 10, 1754, Albany Congress
June 5, 1755, Black Identifies Carbon Dioxide
July, 1755-August, 1758, Acadians Are Expelled from Canada
November 1, 1755, Great Lisbon Earthquake
January, 1756-February 15, 1763, Seven Years’ War
1757, Monro Distinguishes Between Lymphatic and Blood Systems
1757-1766, Haller Establishes Physiology as a Science
June 23, 1757, Battle of Plassey
November 5, 1757, Battle of Rossbach
June 8-July 27, 1758, Siege of Louisbourg
July 27, 1758, Helvétius Publishes De Vesprit
1759, Aepinus Publishes Essay on the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism
1759, Charles III Gains the Spanish Throne
1759, Wedgwood Founds a Ceramics Firm
1759-1766, Construction of the Bridgewater Canal
January, 1759, Voltaire Satirizes Optimism in Candide
January 19, 1759-August 16, 1773, Suppression of the Jesuits
October5, 1759-November 19, 1761, Cherokee War
1760’s
1760’s, Beginning of Selective Livestock Breeding
1760-1776, Caribbean Slave Rebellions :
1762, The Antiquities of Athens Prompts Architectural Neoclassicism
January, 1762-November, 1766, Mozart Tours Europe as a Child Prodigy
April, 1762, Rousseau Publishes The Social Contract
October 5, 1762, First Performance of Gluck’s Orfeo and Euridice
1763, Bayes Advances Probability Theory
1763-1767, Famine in Southern Italy
February 10, 1763, Peace of Paris
Beginning April, 1763, The North Briton Controversy
May 8, 1763-July 24, 1766, Pontiac’s Resistance
August, 1763-April, 1765, David Garrick’s European Tour
September 10, 1763, Publication of the Freeman's Journal
October 7, 1763, Proclamation of 1763
December 14 and 27, 1763, Paxton Boys’ Massacres
1764, Invention of the Spinning Jenny
July, 1764, Voltaire Publishes A Philosophical Dictionary for the Pocket
1765-1769, Watt Develops a More Effective Steam Engine
March 22, 1765-March 18, 1766, Stamp Act Crisis
February 24, 1766, Lorraine Becomes Part of France
November 12, 1766, First American Theater Opens in Philadelphia
December 5, 1766-March 16, 1769, Bougainville Circumnavigates the Globe
1767-1768, Spallanzani Disproves Spontaneous Generation
1767-1771, Invention of the Water Frame
June 29, 1767-April 12, 1770, Townshend Crisis
August, 1767-May, 1799, Anglo-Mysore Wars
August 10, 1767, Catherine the Great’s Instruction
1768-May 16, 1771, Carolina Regulator Movements
August 25, 1768-February 14, 1779, Voyages of Captain Cook
October, 1768-January 9, 1792, Ottoman Wars with Russia
October 30, 1768, Methodist Church Is Established in Colonial America
December, 1768-January 10, 1773, Bruce Explores Ethiopia
December 10, 1768, Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts Is Founded
1769, Pombal Reforms the Inquisition
July 17, 1769-1824, Rise of the California Missions
September, 1769-1778, Siamese-Vietnamese War
October 23, 1769, Cugnot Demonstrates His Steam-Powered Road Carriage
1770’s
1770, Publication of Holbach’s The System of Nature
March 5, 1770, Boston Massacre
1771, Woulfe Discovers Picric Acid
1771-1802, Vietnamese Civil Wars
August 5, 1772-October 24, 1795, Partitioning of Poland
1773, Goethe Inaugurates the Sturm und Drang Movement
1773-1788, African American Baptist Church Is Founded
September, 1773-September, 1774, Pugachev’s Revolt “
December 16, 1773, Boston Tea Party x
1774, Hansard Begins Reporting Parliamentary Debates
April 27-October 10, 1774, Lord Dunmore’s War
May 20, 1774, Quebec Act
July 21, 1774, Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji
August 1, 1774, Priestley Discovers Oxygen
September 5-October 26, 1774, First Continental Congress