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| 1700 |
(1) Charles II of Spain dies; Leaves inheritance to Dauphin of France
(2) Great Northern War begins
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| 1701 |
(1) Prussia becomes a kingdom
(2) War of the Spanish Succession begins
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| 1702 |
William III dies; Netherlands regain status as true republic
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(1) 47 Ronin assassinate Kira Yoshinaka in Japan
(2) The first regular English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, published for first time
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| 1703 |
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Sir Isaac Newton becomes chairman of the Royal Society
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| 1704 |
Battle of Blenheim
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| 1706 |
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Benjamin Franklin born
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| 1707 |
Act of Union between Scotland and England creates Kingdom of Great Britain
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| 1708 |
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J.S. Bach appointed as chamber musician at the court in Weimar
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| 1709 |
Battle of Poltava
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| 1710 |
English conquer French colony at Nova Scotia
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| 1711 |
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David Hume born
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| 1712 |
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John Arbuthnot creates John Bull to represent Britain
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| 1713 |
Treaty of Utrecht; all states except Austria make peace with France
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| 1714 |
War of the Spanish Succession ends
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George the I, 1st Hanoverian King of England
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| 1715 |
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Louis XIV dies
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| 1716 |
Edward Teach, or "Blackbeard," begins two years of piracy in the Caribbean
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| 1717 |
Prince Eugene and the Battle of Belgrade
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The Mississippi Scheme leads to increased settlement in Louisiana
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| 1718 |
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Voltaire imprisoned for criticizing the French aristocracy
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| 1719 |
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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| 1720 |
Emperor Kangxi restricts European traders to Guangzhou
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The South Sea Company Act and the "South Sea Bubble" in Great Britain
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| 1721 |
Great Northern War ends
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| 1722 |
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Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
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| 1723 |
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Christopher Wren dies
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St John Passion by Bach
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| 1724 |
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Immanuel Kant born
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| 1725 |
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Peter the Great dies
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Cassanova born
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| 1726 |
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Voltaire exiled from France
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| 1727 |
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Edmund Burke born
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Isaac Newton dies
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American Philosophical Society established
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| 1728 |
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James Cook born
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| 1729 |
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Jonathan Swift publishes A Modest Proposal
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| 1730 |
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Glasite sect founded in Scotland
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| 1731 |
Treaty of Vienna
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| 1733 |
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The Great Awakening begins in America
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Georgia colony founded by James Oglethorpe
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| 1735 |
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Euler-Maclaurin formula developed
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| 1736 |
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James Watt born
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| 1737 |
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Edward Gibbon born
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| 1738 |
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John Wesley, George Whitefield & Methodism
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| 1739 |
Nadir Shah and the capture of New Delhi
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William Bartram born
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Moravians established in America
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| 1740 |
First Silesian War; Frederick II of Prussia conquers Austrian province of Silesia
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The Messiah by Handel
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| 1741 |
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Anders Celsius develops develops a centigrade thermometer scale
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| 1742 |
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Edmund Halley born
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| 1743 |
Treaty of Worms between Great Britain, Austria, and Sardinia
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| 1744 |
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Mohammed Ibn Saud founds first Saudi State
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| 1745 |
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Jacobite Rebellions begins
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| 1746 |
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Battle of Culloden
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Goya born
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| 1747 |
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First venereal disease clinic opened at London Lock Hospital
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| 1748 |
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends War of Austrian Succession
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| 1750 |
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(1) Bach dies
(2) The Great Awakening ends in America
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| 1751 |
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Pennsylvania legislature grants charter for first hospital in the American colonies
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| 1752 |
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Benjamin Franklin and electricity
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Political Discourses by David Hume
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| 1753 |
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Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod
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| 1754 |
French and Indian War begins
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| 1755 |
(1) Braddock defeated at Fort Duquesne
(2) Acadians exiled
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(1) Voltaire in Geneva
(2) Montesquieu born
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| 1756 |
Seven Years' War begins
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born
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| 1757 |
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Edmund Blake born
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| 1758 |
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Noah Webster born
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| 1759 |
Battle of Quebec
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Handel dies
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| 1760 |
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George II dies; George III ascends to British throne
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| 1761 |
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Slave trade to and within Portugal forbidden
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| 1762 |
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Catherine II usurps Russian throne
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| 1763 |
(1) Pontiac's conspiracy
(2) Seven Years' War ends
(3) French and Indian War ends
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| 1764 |
Battle of Buxar establishes British East India Company as dominant force in India
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| 1765 |
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Colonists oppose Stamp Act
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| 1766 |
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Thomas Malthus born
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| 1767 |
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American whalers venture into Antarctic waters and begin commercial exploitation
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| 1768 |
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Philip Astley stages first modern circus
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| 1769 |
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Napoleon Bonaparte born
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Watt patents the steam engine
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| 1770 |
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George Grenville dies
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James Cook at Botany Bay
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Beethoven born
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| 1771 |
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North Carolina governor Tryon crushes Regulator forces, ending the War of the Regulation
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| 1772 |
First Partition of Poland by Prussia, Russia, and Austria
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| 1773 |
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Boston Tea Party
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Johann Pestalozzi
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| 1774 |
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Louis XVI assumes French throne
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Cotton manufacturing
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| 1775 |
(1) American Revolution begins
(2) Battle of Lexington and Concord
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German peasants revolt
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Jane Austen born
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| 1776 |
American Declaration of Independence
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(1) Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
(2) David Hume dies
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| 1777 |
Burgoyne defeated at Saratoga
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| 1778 |
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James Cook discovers Hawaii
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| 1779 |
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The Iron Bridge, the first ever made from cast-iron, completed in Shropshire
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| 1780 |
League of Armed Neutrality created by Russia, Sweden, and Denmark to protest British seizures of neutral shipping
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| 1781 |
American and French forces trap British army of Cornwallis at Yorktown
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German philosopher Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
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| 1782 |
Americans and British discuss peace
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| 1783 |
(1) Treaty of Paris ends American Revolution
(2) Sheikhs of Khalifa begin rule of Bahrain
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First balloon ride
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| 1784 |
Treaty of Constantinople
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| 1785 |
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The United States adopt the dollar, the first decimal coinage system
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| 1786 |
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Shays Rebellion
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The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart
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| 1787 |
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U. S. Constitution drafted and signed in Philadelphia
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| 1788 |
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Bread riots erupt in France
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Lord Byron born
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| 1789 |
German States, Wars of the begins
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(1) George Washington inaugurated 1st U. S. President
(2) Storming of the Bastille
(3) French Revolution Begins
(4) Protesters storm the Bastille in Paris
(5) French National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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James Fenimore Cooper born
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| 1790 |
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Benjamin Franklin dies
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| 1791 |
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(1) Bill of Rights ratified in America
(2) Haitian Revolution
(3) U. S. Bank established
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Mozart dies
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| 1792 |
(1) French Revolutionary Wars begins
(2) Battle of Valmy
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(1) Jacobins seize power in France
(2) Construction of the White House begins
(3) National Convention abolishes French monarchy and establishes a republic
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| 1793 |
Second Partition of Poland by Prussia, Russia, and Austria
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(1) French National Convention declares universal conscription in the Levée en masse
(2) Louis XVI executed by the National Convention
(3) Construction on the U. S. Capitol begins
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Cotton Gin invented by Eli Whitney
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France bans Catholicism
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| 1794 |
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(1) French Reign of Terror
(2) England suspends Habeas Corpus
(3) Maximilien Robespierre dies
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Edward Gibbon dies
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| 1795 |
(1) Napoleon Bonaparte is named Commander of the French Armies in Italy
(2) Third Partition of Poland by Prussia, Russia, and Austria; Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth destroyed
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John Keats born
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| 1796 |
(1) Napoleon assumes command of the Army of Italy; marries Josephine
(2) British conquer Ceylon
(3) Battle of Arcola; France takes control of Italy
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(1) Catherine the Great dies
(2) George Washington's Farewell Address
(3) Qajar dynasty rules Iran (1796 - 1925)
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English physician Edward Jenner gives the first successful smallpox vaccination to James Phipps.
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| 1797 |
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Edmund Burke dies
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| 1798 |
Battle of the Nile; Napoleon's army stranded in Egypt
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Principles of Population by Thomas Malthus
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| 1799 |
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(1) Delacroix born
(2) Rosetta Stone discovered
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