The 18th Century A.D. - History Summary
	Summary of Events:
	Year Event 1700 Beginning of Great Northern War (to 1713) 1701 Tull invents horse-drawn seeding drill 1701 Foundation of Yale University 1702 War of Spanish Succession begins (to 1713) 1702 England's first daily newspaper issued, The Daily Courant 1703 Foundation of St. Petersburg 1704 French defeated by Marlborough at Blenheim 1705 Introduction of ship's wheel to replace tiller 1707 Act of Union unites England and Scotland 1707 Death of Aurangzeb 1709 Swedes defeated by Peter the Great at Poltava 1714 Beginning of Hanoverian dynasty in England (George I) 1714 Gabriel Fahrenheit invents mercury thermometer 1715 Jacobite rebellion in Britain 1721 Rifle introduced into America 1735 Carolus Linnaeus publishes Systema naturae 1738 Daniel Bernoulli states law of hydrodynamics 1739 War of Jenkin's Ear between Britain and Spain 1739 Founding of Methodism by John and Charles Wesley 1740 War of Austrian Succession (to 1748) 1741 Wrought iron first used in bridge construction 1742 First performance of George Frideric Handel's Messiah 1743 French explorers reach Rocky Mountain 1745 Jacobite rebellion in Britain 1746 Benjamin Franklin begins his research into electricity 1747 Foundation of Afghanistan 1750 Death of Johann Sebastian Bach 1750 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille draws up star catalogue 1751 Denis Diderot begins work on Encyclopédie (to 1776) 1752 Gregorian Calendar adopted in Britain 1755 Publication of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary 1756 Black indentifies carbon dioxide 1756 Beginning of Seven Years War (to 1763) 1756 Black Hole of Calcutta 1757 British defeat French at Plassey 1759 Quebec captured by James Wolfe 1759 Death of Geogre Frideric Handel 1760 Identification of hydrogen by Henry Cavendish 1762 Publication of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract 1764 James Watt invents separate condenser for steam engine 1767 Mason-Dixon line established 1768 James Cook's First Voyage to the Pacific 1768 Richard Arkwright introduces spinning frame in England 1769 Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte 1770 James Bruce finds source of Blue Nile 1770 James Cook arrives in Botany Bay 1771 Carl Scheele discovers oxygen 1772 First partition of Poland between Russia and Austria 1772 Bridgewater Canal finished in England 1773 Boston Tea Party 1774 Accession of Louis XVI of France 1774 Formulation of the rules of cricket 1774 First commercial steam engine produced by James Watt and Matthew Boulton 1775 United States War of Independence begins (to 1783) 1776 American Declaration of Independence 1776 Publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations 1778 Joseph Bramah invents water-closet 1778 Death of Voltaire 1779 Samuel Crompton produces spinning mule 1781 British surrender to Washington at Yorktown 1781 Publication of Emmanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason 1781 William Herschel discovers Uranus 1781 Charles Messier produces star catalogue 1783 Britain recognizes independence of the American Colonies 1783 United Empire Loyalists settle in Canada 1783 Montgolfier brothers ascend in a balloon 1784 Henry Cort introduces puddling process for iron 1784 First official mail coach, Bristol - London 1785 Edmund Cartwright patents power loom 1786 Martin Klaproth discovers uranium 1788 British found colony in Australia 1788 Antoine Lavoisier shows air to be a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen 1789 French Revolution begins 1789 George Washington becomes first president of the United States of America 1789 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty 1789 U.S. Post Office established 1790 Luigi Galvani carries out electrical experiments 1790 First table of chemical elements presented by Antoine Lavoisier 1790 Foundation of Washington, D.C. 1790 Edmund Cartwright introduces steam-powered loom 1791 Bill of Rights ratified by U.S. Congress 1791 Unsuccessful flight of Louis XVI 1791 Death of Mozart 1791 Publication of the first part of Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man 1792 Foundation of the French Republic 1792 First settlements in New Zealand 1793 French Revolutionary Wars begin (to 1799) 1793 Execution of Louis XVI 1793 Whitney patents the cotton gin 1794 End of 'Reign of Terror' in France 1795 Park explores Niger River 1795 Direcotry established in France 1796 Edward Jenner discovers smallpox vaccine 1796 Aloys Senefelder invents lithography 1797 MacArthur introduces merino sheep to Australia 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte invades Egypt 1798 Irish rebellion suppressed 1798 Horatio Nelson defeats French at Aboukir Bay 1798 Publication of William Wordsworth's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads 1798 Publication of THomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population 1799 Death of George Washington 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte becomes first Consul 1799 Ludwig van Beethoven writes first symphony
	Source: D. Crystal, The Cambridge Factfinder (Cambridge University Press, 1998)