The Daily Courant and The Norwich Post become the first daily newspapers in England.
1703 CE
Saint Petersburg is founded by Peter the Great; it is the Russian capital until 1918.
1705 CE
George Frideric Handel composed his first opera, Almira, when he was 19 years old.
1706 CE
The first English-language edition of the Arabian Nights is published.
1707 CE
The Acts of Union, passed by the English and Scottish Parliaments in 1707, led to the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
1707 CE
Mount Fuji erupts in Japan for the first time in 10000 years.
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| Mt.fuji from R469 in Yuno, Japan |
1707 CE
The Mughal–Maratha Wars were fought between the Maratha Empire and the Mughal Empire from 1680 to 1707 (India).
1708-9
Famine kills one-third of East Prussia's population.
1710 CE
The Statute of Anne, also known as the Copyright Act 1710, is regulated by the government and courts, rather than by private parties.
1710-11
Ottoman Empire fights Russia.
1714 CE
George I, Elector of Hanover becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland. Early in his reign, he appeared to be unable to speak English.
The Jacobite risings, or the War of the British Succession, were a series of uprisings, rebellions, and wars in Great Britain and Ireland occurring between 1688 and 1746.
1716 CE
The Sikh Confederacy (from 1716-1799) was a collection of small to medium sized political Sikh states, governed by barons, along the present-day India-Pakistan border.
1720 CE
The economic bubble, a British stock market mania, which ruined thousands of investors, became known as the South Sea Bubble.
1722 CE
The Afghan conquest of Iran. Afghans ousted from Iran 1729.
1729
The Methodist revival began in England with a group of men, including John Wesley and his younger brother Charles, as a movement within the Church of England.
1733 CE
Letters on the English, written by Voltaire, based on his experiences living in England between 1726 and 1729, was published first in English in 1733.
1740-1
Famine in Ireland kills ten percent of the population.
1741 CE
Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery.
1742 CE
The first water-powered cotton mill, Marvel's Mill, begins operation in England. |
| "The Cotton Mill on the River Nen", from Noble and Butlin's 1746 map of Northampton - the earliest known pictorial representation of a cotton mill. |
1744 CE
The First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud.
1750
The Little Ice Age was a period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period.
1754-1763 CE
The French and Indian War, is fought in colonial North America, mostly by the French and their allies against the English and their allies.
1755 CE
Richard Cantillon, an Irish-French economist is credited with the discovery of economic theory and the first to consider the critical role of entrepreneurship in the economy.
1756 CE
The Seven Years' War was a global war fought between 1756 and 1763. It involved all five European great powers of the time plus many of the middle powers and spanned five continents.
1757 CE
The Battle of Plassey signals the beginning of formal British rule in India.
1762-1796 CE
Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.
1770 CE
In 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast of Australia, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain.
1770 CE
The Bengal famine of 1770 kills one-third of the Bengal population.1769 CE
Mayer Rothschild and his five sons established an international banking dynasty from humble beginnings in Frankfurt, Germany and invented modern banking.
1771 CE
Richard Arkwright, the pioneer of the factory system, combined power, machinery, semi-skilled labour and the new raw material of cotton to create mass-produced yarn.
1776 CE
The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
1776 CE
Scottish moral philosopher, Adam Smith, publishes The Wealth of Nations, which described the industrialised capitalist system that was replacing the mercantilist system.
1778 CE
James Cook becomes the first European to land on the Hawaiian Islands. Cook is killed by Hawaiian natives at Kealakekua Bay in the following year. |
| Replica of the sailing ship Endeavor by James Cook, Dennis4trigger |
779–1879
Xhosa Wars between British and Boer settlers.
1783 CE
The French Montgolfier Brothers were the inventors of the first practical hot air balloon.
1783 CE
The Treaty of Paris, signed by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. 1776 CE
English Bill of Rights, 1776
1787 CE
The United States Constitution is written.1788 CE
The first settlement at Sydney, Australia, in 1788, consisted of about 850 convicts and their naval guards and officers, led by Governor Arthur Phillip.
1789 CE
George Washington is elected the first President of the United States.
1789 CE
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789. This human rights document emerged largely from the ideals of the Enlightenment.
1789 CE
The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies beginning in 1789 and ending in 1799.
1792 CE
The New York Stock & Exchange Board is founded.
1803 CE
The French Revolutionary Wars lead into the Napoleonic Wars, which last from 1803–1815.
1793 CE
The last king of France, Louis XVI, before the French Revolution of 1789, was married to Marie Antoinette and both were executed for treason by guillotine in 1793. |
| Portrait of Marie-Antoinette of Austria, 1775 |
1794 CE
Darug people of the Hawkesbury and Penrith, NSW, raid farms and murder settlers until Governor Macquarie dispatchs troops from the British Army 46th Regiment in 1816. The Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars.  |
| Aboriginal method of attack with boomerang under cover of shield, National Museum of Australia |
1796 CE
English country doctor, Edward Jenner, introduced the vaccine for smallpox. Jenner called his new method "vaccination" after the Latin word for cow.
1799 CE
Napoleon stages a coup d'état and becomes First Consul of France.
1799 CE
In 1799, the 14th Tuʻi Kanokupolu, Tukuʻaho was murdered, which sent Tonga into a civil war for fifty years.