|
Year |
|
| 1700 |
(1)
Great Northern War begins
(2) Charles II (Spain) dies
|
| 1701 |
(1)
Prussia becomes a kingdom
(2) Spanish Succession, War of the begins
|
| 1704 |
Battle of Blenheim
|
| 1706 |
Pierre d'Iberville dies
|
| 1707 |
England and Scotland united
|
| 1708 |
William Pitt born
|
| 1709 |
Battle of Poltava
|
| 1710 |
(1)
Port Royal Captured
(2) English take Nova Scotia
|
| 1712 |
(1)
Frederick the Great born
(2) George Grenville born
|
| 1713 |
John Stuart born
|
| 1714 |
(1)
George the I, 1st Hanoverian King of England
(2) War of Spanish Succession begins
|
| 1715 |
Louis XIV dies
|
| 1717 |
Prince Eugene and the Battle of Belgrade
|
| 1720 |
William Cavendish born
|
| 1721 |
Great Northern War begins
|
| 1722 |
John Burgoyne born
|
| 1725 |
Peter the Great dies
|
| 1728 |
Horatio Gates born
|
| 1729 |
William Howe born
|
| 1731 |
Treaty of Vienna
|
| 1732 |
George Washington born
|
| 1735 |
(1)
John Adams born
(2) Paul Revere born
|
| 1736 |
(1)
Patrick Henry born
(2) Kau-Tsung born
|
| 1737 |
Alexander Stewart born
|
| 1738 |
(1)
Charles Cornwallis born
(2) George III born
|
| 1739 |
(1)
Nadir Shah and the capture of New Delhi
(2) Persians sack Delhi
|
| 1740 |
First Silesian War
|
| 1742 |
Nathanael Greene born
|
| 1743 |
(1)
Thomas Jefferson born
(2) Spencer Compton dies
|
| 1744 |
William Bainbridge born
|
| 1745 |
(1)
Jacobite Rebellions begins
(2) Robert Walpole dies
|
| 1746 |
(1)
Battle of Culloden
(2) The Young Pretender defeated at Culloden
|
| 1754 |
(1)
Henry Pelham dies
(2) French and Indian War begins
(3) Francis Rawdon born
|
| 1755 |
(1)
Braddock defeated at Fort Duquesne
(2) Alexander Hamilton born
(3) Acadians exiled
|
| 1756 |
(1)
Black Hole of Calcutta
(2) Seven Years' War begins
|
| 1757 |
(1)
Lafayette born
(2) Battle of Plassey
|
| 1758 |
Maximilien Robespierre born
|
| 1759 |
(1)
Battle of Quebec
|
| 1762 |
Catherine II usurps Russian throne
|
| 1763 |
(1)
Pontiac's conspiracy
(2) Seven Years' War ends
(3) French and Indian War ends
|
| 1764 |
William Cavendish dies
|
| 1765 |
Colonists oppose Stamp Act
|
| 1766 |
Josef Radetzky born
|
| 1767 |
Andrew Jackson born
|
| 1768 |
Thomas Pelham-Holles dies
|
| 1769 |
(1)
Arthur Wellesley born
(2) Napoleon Bonaparte born
|
| 1770 |
(1)
George Canning born
(2) George Grenville dies
|
| 1772 |
Poland partitioned
|
| 1773 |
Boston Tea Party
|
| 1774 |
Louis XVI assumes French throne
|
| 1775 |
(1)
German peasants revolt
(2) American Revolution begins
(3) Battle of Lexington and Concord
(4) Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
(5) Battle of Bunker Hill
|
| 1776 |
(1)
Battle of Trenton
(2)
Battle of Valcour Island
(3)
Battle of Harlem Heights
(4)
Battle of White Plains
(5) American Declaration of Independence
|
| 1777 |
(1)
Burgoyne defeated at Saratoga
(2)
Battle of Princeton
(3)
Battle of Oriskany
(4)
Battle of Brandywine
(5)
Battle of Germantown
(6)
Henry Clay born
|
| 1778 |
William Pitt dies
|
| 1779 |
(1)
American Navy achieves first victory
(2)
Battle of Savannah
(3)
Battle of Flamborough Head
|
| 1780 |
(1)
Battle of Charleston
(2)
Battle of Camden
|
| 1781 |
(1)
Battle of Yorktown
(2)
Battle of Cowpens
(3)
Battle of Guilford Courthouse
(4)
Battle of Hobkirk's Hill
(5)
Battle of Eutaw Springs
(6)
Battle of Chesapeake Bay
|
| 1782 |
(1)
Battle of Battle of the Saintes
(2) Americans and British discuss peace
|
| 1783 |
(1)
Treaty of Versailles ends American Revolution
(2) Sheikhs of Khalifa begin rule of Bahrain
|
| 1784 |
Treaty of Constantinople
|
| 1786 |
(1)
Shays Rebellion
(2)
David Pollock born
(3)
Winfield Scott born
(4)
Nathanael Greene dies
|
| 1787 |
(1)
John Crittenden born
(2) U. S. Constitution drafted and signed
|
| 1788 |
Bread riots erupt in France
|
| 1789 |
(1)
George Washington inaugurated 1st U. S. President
(2) Storming of the Bastille
(3)
Wars of the
German States begins
|
| 1791 |
(1)
Bill of Rights ratified in America
(2) Haitian Revolution
(3)
James Buchanan born
|
| 1792 |
(1)
John Stuart dies
(2)
John Burgoyne dies
(3)
Battle of Valmy
(4) Jacobins seize power in France
(5)
French Revolutionary Wars begins
|
| 1793 |
Louis XV executed, Murat murdered
|
| 1794 |
(1)
French Reign of Terror
(2) England suspends Habeas Corpus
(3)
Maximilien Robespierre dies
(4)
Alexander Stewart dies
|
| 1796 |
(1)
Catherine the Great dies
(2) George Washington's Farewell Address
(3) Napoleon rises to power; marries Josephine
(4) French take Italy
(5) Kau-Tsung dies
(6) Qajar dynasty rules Iran (1796 - 1925)
(7)
Battle of Arcola
(8)
Battle of Castiglione
(9) British conquer Ceylon
|
| 1797 |
Battle of Rivoli
|
| 1798 |
(1)
Battle of the Nile
(2) Samuel Cooper born
(3) Richard Delafield born
(4) Ethan Hitchcock born
|
| 1799 |
George Washington dies
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