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Russian Famine
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Map of the Myriad Countries of the World
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Elizabeth I of England dies
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The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria ends
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Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
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Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy)
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The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth conquers Moscow
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth -
King Henry IV of France is assassinated by François Ravaillac.
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Ottoman Empire fights Russia in the Russo-Turkish War.
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The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
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Fight over Jakarta
Dutch East India Company, English East India Company, and Sultanate of Banten all fighting over port city of Jayakarta. VOC forces storm the city and withstand a months-long siege by the combined English, Bantenese, and Jayakartan forces. They are relieved by Jan Pieterszoon Coen and a fleet of nineteen ships out of Ambon. Coen had burned Jepara and its EIC post along the way. The VOC levels the old city of Jayakarta and builds its new headquarters, Batavia, on top of it. -
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Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
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As chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
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Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
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The first opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice.
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Naval Battle of the Downs
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civil wars throughout Scotland, Ireland, and England.
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The Portuguese Restoration War
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The Irish Rebellion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Rebellion_of_1641
(Irish: Éirí Amach 1641) began as an attempted coup d'état by Irish Catholic gentry, who tried to seize control of the English administration in Ireland to force concessions for Catholics. The coup failed and the rebellion developed into an ethnic conflict between Irish Catholics on one side, and English and Scottish Protestants on the other -
René Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy.
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Irish Confederate Wars (Part of Three Kingdoms Wars)
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English Civil War
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Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
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Great Plague of Seville.
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The Peace of Westphalia
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Fronde civil war in France
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The Khmelnytsky Uprising – a Cossack rebellion in Ukraine which turned into a Ukrainian war of liberation from Poland.
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The Deluge wars leave Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in ruins.
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The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
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King Charles I is executed
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The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Ireland
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Battle of Worcester.
English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory
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The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
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The Commonwealth of England ends
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Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
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The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
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The Great Fire of London.
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The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English battleships laid up in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent. At the time, the fortress of Upnor Castle and a barrier chain called the "Gillingham Line" were supposed to protect the English ships.
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The Great Turkish War
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The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands.
The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
France occupied large parts of the Spanish Netherlands, and Franche-Comté, both then provinces of Spain. The name derives from an obscure law known as the Jus Devolutionis, used by Louis XIV to claim they "devolved" to him by right of marriage to Maria Theresa of Spain. -
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The Third Anglo-Dutch War
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Franco-Dutch War.
France had the support of England and Sweden, while the Dutch were supported by Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark. The war began in May 1672 when France invaded the Netherlands and nearly overran it, an event still referred to as het Rampjaar or 'Disaster Year'.
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Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
between the Tsardom of Russia and Ottoman Empire, caused by Turkish expansionism in the second half of the 17th century.
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Treaty of Nijmegen ends various interconnected wars among France, the Dutch Republic, Spain, Brandenburg, Sweden, Denmark, the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, and the Holy Roman Empire.
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The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
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War of 27 Years between the Marathas and Mughals ends in India.
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Chateau de Versailles becomes principal residence for Louis 14
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The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the second Siege of Vienna.
took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683[1] after the imperial city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The battle was fought by the Holy Roman Empire led by the Habsburg Monarchy and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, both under the command of King John III Sobieski, against the Ottomans and their vassal and tributary states.
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Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
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The Seige of Derry
the first major event in the Williamite War in Ireland. The siege was preceded by a first attempt against the town by Jacobite forces on 7 December 1688 that was foiled when 13 apprentices shut the gates. This was an act of rebellion against James II.
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The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England, England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
the deposition and replacement of James II and VII as ruler of England, Scotland and Ireland by his daughter Mary II and his Dutch nephew and Mary's husband, William III of Orange, which took place between November 1688 and May 1689. The outcome of events in all three kingdoms and Europe, the Revolution was quick and relatively bloodless, though establishing the new regime took much longer and led to significant casualties.
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The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
The Grand Alliance is the name commonly used for the anti-French coalition formed on 20 December 1689 between England, the Dutch Republic and the Archduchy of Austria.
The Nine Years' War (1688–1697) was a conflict between Louis XIV of France and a European coalition of the Holy Roman Empire (led by Austria), the Dutch Republic, Spain, England, and Savoy. It was fought in Europe and the surrounding seas, in North America, and in India. It is sometimes considered the first global war -
The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire.
also referred to as the Battle of Rinrory by contemporaries, took place on 27 July 1689 during the First Jacobite Rising between a Jacobite force of Scots and Irish and those of the new Williamite government. The Jacobites won a stunning victory but suffered heavy casualties, their commander, John Graham, Viscount Dundee, being killed in the final minutes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Killiecrankie -
The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day North Macedonia, Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed, and the rebels are defeated.
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The Bill of Rights
a landmark Act in the constitutional law of England that sets out certain basic civil rights and clarifies who would be next to inherit the Crown. Lays down limits on the powers of the monarch and sets out the rights of Parliament, including the requirement for regular parliaments, free elections, and freedom of speech in Parliament.[
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Famine in France kills 2 million
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Battle of the Boyne
between the forces of the deposed King James II of England and Ireland, VII of Scotland, versus those of King William III. The battle took place across the River Boyne close to the town of Drogheda in the Kingdom of Ireland, modern-day Republic of Ireland, and resulted in a victory for William. This turned the tide in James's failed attempt to regain the British crown and ultimately aided in ensuring the continued Protestant ascendancy in Ireland. -
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The Mughal Empire nearly bans the East India Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai.
The Ganj-i-Sawai (Persian/Hindustani: گنج سواہی, Ganj-i-Sawai, in English "Exceeding Treasure", often anglicized as Gunsway) was an armed Ghanjah dhow (trading ship) belonging to the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb which, along with her escort Fateh Muhammed, was captured on 7 September 1695 by the English pirate Henry Every en route from present day Mocha, Yemen to Surat, India.
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Famine in Finland wipes out almost one-third of the population.
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Grand Embassy of Peter the Great
The primary goal of the mission was to strengthen and broaden the Holy League, Russia's alliance with a number of European countries against the Ottoman Empire in the Russian struggle for the northern coastline of the Black Sea. The tsar also sought to hire foreign specialists for Russian service and to acquire military weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Embassy_of_Peter_the_Great -
Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
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Great Northern War between the Russian and Swedish Empires.
a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were Peter I of Russia, Frederick IV of Denmark–Norway and Augustus II the Strong of Saxony–Poland–Lithuania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_War -
Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I.
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The War of the Spanish Succession is fought, involving most of continental Europe
triggered by the November, 1700 death of the childless Charles II of Spain, the last Habsburg monarch of Spain. His closest heirs were members of the Austrian Habsburg and the French Bourbon families. . Related conflicts include Rákóczi's War of Independence in Hungary, the Camisard revolt in Southern France, Queen Anne's War in North America, and minor struggles in Colonial India. -
The Daily Courant and The Norwich Post become the first daily newspapers in England.
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Camisard Rebellion in France.
Camisards were Huguenots (French Protestants) of the rugged and isolated Cévennes region and the Vaunage in southern France. In the early 1700s, they raised an insurrection against the persecutions which followed Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, making Protestantism illegal.
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Sait Petersburg founded by Peter the Great
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The Rákóczi Uprising against the Habsburg Monarchy.
the first significant attempt to topple the rule of the Habsburgs over Hungary. The war was fought by a group of noblemen, wealthy and high-ranking progressives and was led by Francis II Rákóczi. The insurrection was unsuccessful, closed by Treaty of Szatmár, however the Hungarian nobility managed to partially satisfy Hungarian interests. -
The first English-language edition of the Arabian Nights is published.
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The Act of Union is passed, merging the Scottish and English Parliaments,
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Mount Fuji erupts in Japan for the first time in 10000 years.
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The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies and English Company Trading to the East Indies merge to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies.
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Famine kills one-third of East Prussia's population.
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The Great Frost of 1709 marks the coldest winter in 500 years.
The Great Frost, as it was known in England, or Le Grand Hiver ("The Great Winter"), as it was known in France, was an extraordinarily cold winter in Europe in late 1708 and early 1709,[1] and was the coldest European winter during the past 500 years.[2] The severe cold occurred during the time of low sunspot activity known as the Maunder Minimum.
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Hotak dynasty founded in Afghanistan.
an Afghan monarchy of the Ghilji Pashtuns,[2][3] established in April 1709 by Mirwais Hotak after leading a successful revolution against their declining Persian Safavid overlords in the region of Loy Kandahar ("Greater Kandahar") in what is now southern Afghanistan. It lasted until 1738 -
Charles XII of Sweden flees to the Ottoman Empire after Peter I of Russia defeats his army at the Battle of Poltava.
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The world's first copyright legislation, Britain's Statute of Anne, takes effect.
Prior to this, copying restrictions were authorized by the Licensing of the Press Act 1662. These were enforced by the Stationers' Company, a guild of printers given the exclusive power to print—and the responsibility to censor—literary works. The censorship led to public protest; as the act had to be renewed at two-year intervals, authors and others sought to prevent its reauthorisation. 1694 Parliament refused to renew the Licensing Act, ending the Stationers' monopoly & press restrictions. -
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Tuscarora War between British, Dutch, and German settlers and the Tuscarora people of North Carolina.
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The first shipment of coffee from Java reaches Amsterdam.
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The Treaty of Utrecht ends the War of the Spanish Succession.
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Accession of George I, Elector of Hanover, to the throne of Great Britain.
He was the first British monarch of the House of Hanover.
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Louis XIV dies, leaving France greatly enlarged but deep in debt; The Regency takes power under Philippe d'Orleans.
the period in French history between 1715 and 1723, when King Louis XV was a minor and the country was governed by Philippe d'Orléans, a nephew of Louis XIV of France, as prince regent. -
Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism incompatible.
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The first Jacobite rising breaks out; the British halt the Jacobite advance at the Battle of Sheriffmuir; Battle of Preston.
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The Netherlands, Britain and France sign the Triple Alliance.
against Spain, attempting to maintain the agreement of the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. The three states were concerned about Spain becoming a superpower in Europe. As a result of this, militarisation took place, causing great havoc to civilians. This enraged Spain and other states, leading to brinkmanship. It became the Quadruple Alliance the next year with the accession of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. -
Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is killed by Robert Maynard in a North Carolina inlet on the inner side of Ocracoke Island.
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Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire.
is a period in Ottoman history from the Treaty of Passarowitz on 21 July 1718 to the Patrona Halil Revolt on 28 September 1730. This was a relatively peaceful period, during which the Ottoman Empire began to orient itself towards Europe. -
The Spanish attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails.
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South Sea bubble
a British joint-stock company founded in 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the national debt. To assist generating income, the company was granted a monopoly to trade with the islands in the "South Seas" and South America. Britain was involved in the War of the Spanish Succession and Spain and Portugal controlled most of South America. There was no realistic prospect of trade, and the Company never realised any significant profit from its monopoly. -
Spanish military embarks on the Villasur expedition, traveling north from Mexico into the Great Plains.
Spanish military expedition intended to check New France's growing influence on the North American Great Plains, led by Lieutenant-General Pedro de Villasur. Pawnee and Otoe Indians attacked the expedition in Nebraska, killing 36 of the 40 Spaniards, 10 of their Indian allies, and a French guide. The survivors retreated to their base in New Mexico. -
The Great Plague of Marseille.
The last major outbreak of bubonic plague in western Europe. Arriving in Marseille, France in 1720, the disease killed a total of 100,000 people: 50,000 in the city during the next two years and another 50,000 to the north in surrounding provinces and towns. While economic activity took only a few years to recover, as trade expanded to the West Indies and Latin America, it was not until 1765 that the population returned to its pre-1720 level. -
Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of Great Britain (de facto).
the exact dates of Walpole's dominance, dubbed the "Robinocracy",[2] are a matter of scholarly debate, the period 1721–1742 is often used. He dominated the Walpole–Townshend ministry, as well as the subsequent Walpole ministry, and holds the record as the longest-serving British prime minister in history -
The Treaty of Nystad is signed, ending the Great Northern War.
Peter I of Russia had occupied all Swedish possessions on the eastern Baltic coast: Swedish Ingria (where he began to build the soon-to-be new Russian capital of St. Petersburg in 1703), Swedish Estonia and Swedish Livonia (which had capitulated in 1710), and Finland. King Frederick I of Sweden formally recognized the transfer of Estonia, Livonia, Ingria, and Southeast Finland to Russia in exchange for two million silver thaler, while Russia returned the bulk of Finland to Swedish rule. -
Kangxi Emperor bans Christian missionaries because of Pope Clement XI's decree.
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Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Bartholomew Roberts is killed in a sea battle off the African coast.
Born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate who raided ships off the Americas and West Africa between 1719 and 1722. He was the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy as measured by vessels captured,[1] taking over 400 prizes in his career.[2] He is also known as Black Bart (Welsh: Barti Ddu), but this name was never used in his lifetime.[3] -
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nown in Russian historiography as the Persian campaign of Peter the Great,[9] was a war between the Russian Empire and Safavid Iran, triggered by the tsar's attempt to expand Russian influence in the Caspian and Caucasus regions and to prevent its rival, the Ottoman Empire, from territorial gains in the region at the expense of declining Safavid Iran. -
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Controversy over William Wood's halfpence leads to the Drapier's Letters and begins the Irish economic independence from England movement.
The collective name for a series of seven pamphlets written between 1724 and 1725 by the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Jonathan Swift, to arouse public opinion in Ireland against the imposition of a privately minted copper coinage that Swift believed to be of inferior quality. William Wood was granted letters patent to mint the coin, and Swift saw the licensing of the patent as corrupt. representing Ireland as constitutionally and financially independent of Britain in the Letters. -
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The "Great Disaster", an invasion of Kazakh territories by the Dzungars.
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The Treaty of Constantinople is signed, partitioning Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.
The Russians and the Ottomans were engaged in a race to occupy more Iranian territories and were about to engage in a war over the occupation of Gandjeh when France intervened. In the Russo-Persian War (1722-1723), Russia had conquered swaths of Safavid Iran's territories in the North Caucasus, Transcaucasia, and northern mainland Iran, while the Ottoman Turks had invaded and conquered all Iranian territories in the west, most notably Georgia and Armenia. -
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a failed British attempt to blockade Porto Bello and a failed Spanish attempt to capture Gibraltar. It eventually ended with a return to the previous status quo ante bellum following the Treaty of Seville.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1727%E2%80%931729) -
Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin Methodism in England
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The First Great Awakening takes place in Great Britain and North America.
a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. The revival movement permanently affected Protestantism as adherents strove to renew individual piety and religious devotion. The Great Awakening marked the emergence of Anglo-American evangelicalism as a trans-denominational movement within the Protestant churches. -
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War of the Polish Succession.
A major European conflict sparked by a Polish civil war over the succession to Augustus II of Poland, which the other European powers widened in pursuit of their own national interests. France and Spain, the two Bourbon powers, attempted to test the power of the Austrian Habsburgs in western Europe, as did the Kingdom of Prussia, whilst Saxony and Russia mobilized to support the eventual Polish victor. Resulted in the accession of Augustus III. -
Letters Concerning on the English Nations, Voltaire
a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England between 1726 and 1729 (though from 1707 the country was part of the Kingdom of Great Britain). It was published first in English in 1733 and then in French the following year, where it was seen as an attack on the French system of government and was rapidly suppressed. -
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between Russia and the Ottoman Empire was caused by the Ottoman Empire's war with Persia and continuing raids by the Crimean Tatars.[1] The war also represented Russia's continuing struggle for access to the Black Sea. In 1737, Austria joined the war on Russia's side, known in historiography as the Austro-Turkish War of 1737–1739. -
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Famine across the Sahel; half the population of Timbuktu dies.
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Qing Dynasty Chinese court painters recreate Zhang Zeduan's classic panoramic painting, Along the River During Qingming Festival
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Pope Clement XII issues In eminenti apostolatus, prohibiting Catholics from becoming Freemasons.
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Great Britain and Spain fight the War of Jenkins' Ear in the Caribbean.
a conflict between Britain and Spain lasting from 1739 to 1748, mainly in New Granada and among the West Indies of the Caribbean Sea, with major operations largely ended by 1742. Its name, coined by British historian Thomas Carlyle in 1858,[2] refers to Robert Jenkins, a captain of a British merchant ship, who suffered having his ear severed when Spanish sailors boarded his ship at a time of peace. -
Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia.
ruled the Kingdom of Prussia from 1740 until 1786, the longest reign of any Hohenzollern king, at 46 years.[a] His most significant accomplishments during his reign included his military victories, his reorganization of Prussian armies, his patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment and his final success against great odds in the Seven Years' War. -
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The British captured St. Augustine, Florida but lose to the Spanish during the Siege of St. Augustine.
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Famine in Ireland kills ten percent of the population.
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involved most of the great powers and lesser powers of Europe over the issue of Maria Theresa's succession to the Habsburg Monarchy. The war included peripheral events such as King George's War (1744-1748) in British America, the War of Jenkins' Ear (which formally began on 23 October 1739), the First Carnatic War in India, the Jacobite rising of 1745 in Scotland, and the First and Second Silesian Wars. -
Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery.
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The rebellion of Juan Santos Atahualpa.
a mestizo leader of an indigenous rebellion in the Andean jungle provinces of Tarma and Jauja, near what was then Spanish Peru in the mid 18th century. What little that is known about Juan Santos is that he was from Cusco and had been given a Christian education by the Jesuits. Juan Santos himself claimed to be descended from the Inca royal family. -
Marvel's Mill, the first water-powered cotton mill, begins operation in England.
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The French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails.
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The First Carnatic War is fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India.
Involved numerous nominally independent rulers and their vassals, struggles for succession and territory, and included a diplomatic and military struggle between the French East India Company and the British East India Company. As a result, the British East India Company established its dominance among the European trading companies within India. The French company was pushed to a corner and was confined primarily to Pondichéry. Eventually led to the establishment of the British Raj. -
Second Jacobite rising is begun by Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland.
also known as the Forty-five Rebellion or simply the '45.an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart. It took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British Army was fighting in mainland Europe, and proved to be the last in a series of revolts that began in 1689, with major outbreaks in 1708, 1715 and 1719. -
The Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession and First Carnatic War.
(Treaty of Aachen) ended the War of the Austrian Succession. Agreed 1748 by Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic. Austria, Spain, Sardinia, Modena, and Genoa later acceded to the Treaty in two separate agreements. The Treaty largely failed to resolve the issues that caused the war, leading to the strategic realignment known as the Diplomatic Revolution, and the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in 1756. -
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The Second Carnatic War is fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India.
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Peak of the Little Ice Age.
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The French and Indian War, the North American chapter of the Seven Years' War, is fought in colonial North America, mostly by the French and their allies against the English and their allies.
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The Lisbon earthquake
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Demand-Supply, Richard Cantillon
an Irish-French economist and author of Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général (Essay on the Nature of Trade in General), a book considered by William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy".[4] Although little information exists on Cantillon's life, it is known that he became a successful banker and merchant at an early age. -
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The Great Upheaval forces transfer of the French Acadian population from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people from the present-day Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and northern Maine — parts of an area also known as Acadia. -
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The Seven Years' War is fought among European powers in various theaters around the world.
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The Third Carnatic War is fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India.
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The Battle of Plassey signals the beginning of formal British rule in India after years of commercial activity under the auspices of the East India Company.
A decisive victory of the British East India Company over the Nawab of Bengal and his French[1] allies on 23 June 1757, under the leadership of Robert Clive which was possible due to the defection of Mir Jafar Ali Khan, who was Siraj-ud-Daulah's commander in chief. The battle helped the Company seize control of Bengal. Over the next hundred years, they seized control of the entire Indian subcontinent and Myanmar - and briefly Afghanistan. -
British colonel James Wolfe issues Wolfe's Manifesto.
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French and Indian War: French commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and British commander James Wolfe die during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
Also known as the Battle of Quebec. The battle involved fewer than 10,000 troops in total, but proved to be a deciding moment in the conflict between France and Britain over the fate of New France, influencing the later creation of Canada. The culmination of a three-month siege by the British, the battle lasted about an hour.The decisive success of the British forces and the subsequent capture of Quebec was part of what became known as the "Annus Mirabilis" in Great Britain. -
George III becomes King of Britain.
Reign marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost. Further wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France from 1793 concluded in the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. -
Marine chronometer invented.
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Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.
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The Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War and Third Carnatic War.
signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War. marked the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe.Great Britain and France each returned much of the territory that they had captured during the war, but Great Britain gained much of France's possessions in North America. -
The Stamp Act is introduced into the American colonies by the British Parliament.
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.[1][2] Printed materials included legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers, and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies, and it had to be paid in British currency, not in colonial paper money -
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Anglo-Mysore Wars
a series of wars fought during the last three decades of the 18th century between the Kingdom of Mysore on the one hand, and the British East India Company (represented chiefly by the Madras Presidency), and the Nizam of Hyderabad on the other. Resulted in the overthrow of the house of Hyder Ali and Tipu (who was killed in the fourth war, in 1799), and the dismantlement of Mysore to the benefit of the East India Company, which took control of much of the Indian subcontinent. -
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War of the Bar Confederation.
An association of Polish nobles (szlachta) formed at the fortress of Bar in Podolia in 1768 to defend the internal and external independence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth against Russian influence and against King Stanisław II Augustus with Polish reformers, who were attempting to limit the power of the Commonwealth's wealthy magnates. -
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Russo-Turkish War
a major armed conflict that saw Russian arms largely victorious against the Ottoman Empire. Russia's victory brought Kabardia, part of Moldavia, the Yedisan between the rivers Bug and Dnieper, and Crimea into the Russian sphere of influence. -
Spanish missionaries establish the first of 21 missions in California.
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James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia.
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The Bengal famine of 1770 kills one-third of the Bengal population
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James Cook claims the East Coast of Australia (New South Wales) for Great Britain
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Famine in Czech lands kills hundreds of thousands
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The Boston Massacre
British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.British troops had been stationed in the Province of Massachusetts Bay since 1768 in order to support crown-appointed officials and to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation. -
Plague Riot in Moscow
The measures undertaken by the authorities, such as creation of forced quarantines, destruction of contaminated property without compensation or control, closing of public baths, etc., caused fear and anger among the citizens. The city's economy was mostly paralyzed because many factories, markets, stores, and administrative buildings had been closed down. All of this was followed by acute food shortages, causing deterioration of living conditions for the majority of the Muscovites. -
Richard Arkwright and his partners build the world's first water-powered mill at Cromford
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Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, becoming almost an absolute monarch.
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The Partitions of Poland end the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and erase Poland from the map for 123 years.
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Maratha Empire fights Britain and Raghunathrao's forces during the First Anglo-Maratha War.
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East India Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle opium into China.
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Pugachev's Rebellion
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Boston Tea Party
A political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. American Patriots strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights. Demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. -
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American Revolutionary War.
lso known as the American War of Independence, was fought primarily between the Kingdom of Great Britain and her Thirteen Colonies in America, resulting in the overthrow of British rule in the colonies and the establishment of the United States of America -
Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt.
A name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically, usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on 1 May 1776 in Bavaria. The society's goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life, and abuses of state power. "The order of the day," they wrote in their general statutes, "is to put an end to the machinations of the purveyors of injustice, to control them without dominating them." -
The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia
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Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations.
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Captain James Cook is killed by Hawaiian natives
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Xhosa Wars
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indigenous rebellion against Spanish colonization
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The Haitian Revolution.
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Montgolfier brothers invent hot air balloon.
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Famine in Iceland, caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano.
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Russian Empire annexes the Crimean Khanate.
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The Treaty of Paris formally ends the American Revolutionary War.
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The United States Constitution is written
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Russo-Turkish War.
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First French Quaker community established in Congénies.
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First permanent European settlement established in Australia by Britain at Sydney.
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Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790).
The conflict was initiated by King Gustav III of Sweden for domestic political reasons, as he believed that a short war would leave the opposition with no recourse but to support him. Despite establishing himself as an autocrat in a bloodless coup d'état that ended parliamentary rule in 1772, his political powers did not give him the right to start a war.the war was ended by the Treaty of Värälä on 14 August. -
George Washington is elected the first President of the United States
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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Great Britain and Spain dispute the Nootka Sound during the Nootka Crisis.
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The Liège Revolution.
sometimes known as the Happy Revolution started on 18 August 1789 and lasted until the destruction of the Republic of Liège and re-establishment of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège by Austrian forces in 1791. The Liège Revolution was concurrent with the French Revolution and its effects were long-lasting and eventually led to the abolition of the Bishopric of Liège and its final annexation by French revolutionary forces in 1795. -
The Brabant Revolution.
an armed insurrection that occurred in the Austrian Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) between October 1789 and December 1790. The revolution, which occurred at the same time as revolutions in France and Liège, led to the brief overthrow of Habsburg rule and the proclamation of a short-lived polity, the United Belgian States. -
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The French Revolution
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Surprise Symphony, Haydn
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George Vancouver explores the world during the Vancouver Expedition
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The New York Stock & Exchange Board is founded.
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Polish–Russian War
fought between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Targowica Confederation (conservative nobility of the Commonwealth opposed to the new Constitution of 3 May 1791) and the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great on the other. The war took place in: northern in Lithuania and southern in what is now Ukraine.The Polish forces retreated before the numerically superior Russian forces, though they offered significantly more resistance in the south. no side scored a decisive victory.[ -
King Gustav III of Sweden is assassinated by a conspiracy of noblemen.
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Former King Louis XVI of France and his wife Marie Antoinette are guillotined
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The largest yellow fever epidemic in American history
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Revolt in the Vendée against the French Republic
at the time of the Revolution.The Vendée is a coastal region, located immediately south of the Loire River in western France. Initially, the war was similar to the 14th-century Jacquerie peasant uprising, but quickly acquired themes considered by the Jacobin government in Paris to be counter-revolutionary, and Royalist. The uprising headed by the newly formed Catholic and Royal Army was comparable to the Chouannerie, which took place in the area north of the Loire. -
Polish Revolt
The Kościuszko Uprising was an uprising against the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Prussian partition in 1794. It was a failed attempt to liberate the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from Russian influence after the Second Partition of Poland (1793) and the creation of the Targowica Confederation. -
Jay's Treaty
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The Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars
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Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination
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War of the First Coalition
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The British eject the Dutch from Ceylon.
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Trinidad put under British rule
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Napoleon's invasion and partition of the Republic of Venice
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The Irish Rebellion fails to overthrow British rule in Ireland.
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The Quasi-War is fought between the United States and France.
an undeclared war fought almost entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800, which broke out during the beginning of John Adams's presidency. After the French Monarchy was abolished in September 1792, the United States refused to continue repaying its large debt to France, which had supported the U.S. during its own War for Independence. The U.S. claimed that the debt had been owed to a previous regime. -
Napoleon stages a coup d'état and becomes First Consul of France.
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Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
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Tipu Sultan is killed in a battle with British forces.
the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore and a pioneer of rocket artillery. He introduced a new coinage system and calendar, and a new land revenue system which initiated the growth of the Mysore silk industry. He expanded the iron-cased Mysorean rockets and commissioned the military manual Fathul Mujahidin. He deployed the rockets against advances of British forces and their allies during the Anglo-Mysore Wars, including the Battle of Pollilur and Siege of Seringapatam. -
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The French Revolutionary Wars
lead into the Napoleonic Wars, which last from 1803–1815. sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution. They pitted France against Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia and several other monarchies. They are divided in two periods: the War of the First Coalition (1792–97) and the War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802).
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