Timeline of the 18th Century
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1700 -The Great Northern War (1700-1721), paralleled the War of the Spanish Succession.
1701 -The Settlement Act of 1701 establishing the supremacy of Parliament in England. - William III of England heads the second Grand Alliance, which became involved in the War of the Spanish Succession. - Britain obtains an Iroquois "deed" to western lands purportedly conquered by the Iroquois though later abandoned by them under pressure from enemies.
1702 - William III (William of Orange), died on 19 March, 1702 from complications after being thrown from his horse - Queen Anne succeeds to throne of England - Start of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe - Beginning of Queen Anne’s War (1702-1713), second of the four North American wars waged by the British and French
1704 - Capture of Gibraltar by British forces 24, July - August 12, Battle of Blenheim, Bavaria
1706 - 23 May, French are defeated at the Battle of Ramillies near the Belgian village of Ramillies-Offus, forcing them to withdraw from the Netherlands.
1707 - April 25, British defeat at Almanza in Spain - Act of Union, which created Great Britain by finally fully uniting England and Scotland.
1708 - July 11, British victory over French at Battle of Oudenarde - September, British capture of Minorca
1709 - September 11, Battle of Malplaquet, French defeated in the bloodiest battle of the war at the French village of Malplaquet
1711 - August 5, Marlborough forces the "Non Plus Lines."
1712 - New York Slave Rebellion, in which Native and African slaves united.
1713 - April 11, Peace of Utrecht, treaty of which recognizes Iroquois as British subjects.
1714 - King George I arrives in England as the reigning monarch.
1715 - Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland - November 13, defeat of the Jacobites at the Battle of Sheriffmuir.
1724 - Most Tulpehocken Delawares migrate to Ohio Valley. - Thomas Pelham-Holles, duke of Newcastle is appointed secretary of state for the British ministry’s southern department, with responsibility to supervise the American colonies. His policy is known as "solitary neglect."
1727 - June 11, George II succeeds his father George I - Death of Sir Issac Newton. - A Shawnee band migrates from the upper Delaware Valley to the Ohio country.
1730 - French instigate a massacre of the Fox nation which reduced them as an independent force.
1732 - Colony of Georgia founded by Royal Charter.
1736 - Alliance between colony of Pennsylvania and the Iroquois grand council.
1737 - William Penn’s sons dispossess the Delawares of the “forks of Delaware” by the Walking Purchase.
1738 - William Johnson arrives in New York from Ireland in order to take charge of uncle Sir Peter Warren’s New York estates.
1739 -The "War of Jenkins’s Ear,"   a trade war between Great Britain and Spain, developing due to British attempts to circumvent the Peace of Utrecht.
1740s - Many Senecas and Cayugas migrate from New England to the southern shores of Lake Erie and become known as Mingos.
1742 - Start of the War of Austrian Succession
1743 - June 27, Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria, the last engagement in which a British monarch ( King George II )participated in person.
1744 - King George’s War (1744 - 1748 ), 15 March, third of four North American wars waged by the British and French  - Iroquois give the British permission to build a blockhouse at the Forks of the Ohio. - 16 June- 7July - Treaty at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, between Iroquois nations of Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca, on the one side, and British colonies of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania on the other. - George Crogan establishes trading post at Mingo town of Cuyahoga. His soon becomes a political power among the Ohio Indians.
1745 - May 11, "Battle of Fontenoy" in Flanders, French defeat combined army of British, Dutch and Austrian troops - Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises the Highlanders in what is called the "Jacobite Rebellion" - 30 September, Royalist John Campbell, looses his army to Jacobite victory at the "Battle of Prestonpans" - George Montagu Dunk, second earl of Halifax, is appointed president of the lords commissioners for trade and plantations (board of trade) - Massachusetts governor William Shirley directs campaign that captures Louisbourg, but the fort is returned to the French by the peace treaty.
1746 - 28 January, Jacobite victory at the Battle of Falkirk - Earl Loudoun flees the “rout of Moy” to the safety of Skye, and sits out the rest of the Jacobite rising - 27 April, William Augustus, duke of Cumberland, defeats Scots rebels at the "Battle of Culloden", braking the Jacobite Rebellion - He is made captain general of the British army. 
1747 - July 2, Battle of Lauffeld, British and Allied defeat -  October 24th, Formation of the Ohio Company of Virginia - June, William Johnson instigates a Mohawk raid against Montreal in defiance of Iroquois grand council’s neutrality policy. The raiders are ambushed with great losses. Benjamin Franklin organizes a military association for Pennsylvania’s defense.
1748 - October 18, Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle ends War of Austrian Succession (known in British colonies as “King George’s War”) - 11 August, Conrad Weiser journeys to the Ohio country to treat with region’s Indians - Shawnees and  Iroquois grand council appoints Tanaghrisson as “Half King” over the Ohio Indians and gives Scarouady supervision over the Shawnees - Benjamin Franklin retires from management of his printing business - Louisbourg returns to France.
1749 - 11 January, Ohio Company’s petitions King George for a grant of lands, and proposes to build a fort there - 16 March, King George II orders grant to the Ohio Company - June 1, François Piquet founds La Présentation, a  Sulpician mission Oswegatchie (Ogdensburg), N.Y.), it draws many Iroquois to the French - 15 June – 9 November, Captain Céleron de Blainville leads an expedition to the Ohio country to restore New France’s authority, but fails in efforts. - Halifax is established and constructed in Acadia [Nova Scotia] as a counter measure to Fortress Louisbourg.
1750 - 11 September, 1750 - 29 March 1752, Christopher Gist arranges for a treaty at Logstown - William Johnson attempts to prevent Conrad Wiser from treating with the Iroquois - French raid against rebellious Shawnees fails to subdue them -  Virginians treat with Ohio Indians at Logstown, get confirmation from Mingos of land at Lancaster in 1744 - Commissioners appointed to negotiate disputed by Britain and France - British build Fort Lawrence, French counter with Fort Beauséjour at disputed border between Nova Scotia and Acadia.
1750-51 - La Galissonière, governor-general of New France, repeatedly warns the French ministry of two necessities: (1) to preserve the loyalty of the India tribes; (2) to preserve the lifeline between Canada and Louisiana from British interception
1751 - July, Johnson resigns post as New York’s agent in charge of Indian affairs, is later elected a member of Pennsylvania assembly. Thomas Penn and brother refuse the assembly’s unanimous request to contribute to expense of Indian affairs “or any other public expense.”
1752- Britain adopts the Georgian calendar. - William Law publishes, "The Way to Divine Knowledge." - Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening conductor. - 21 June, A party of Chippewas, Potawatomies, and Ottawas, led by Charles Langlade, attack the Indian village of Picawillany, destroy Croghan's trading post, killing one British trader, and taking others prisoner. - Marquis Duquesne arrives at Quebec to be governor-general of New France. - Commissioner William Shirley recalled from futile negotiations in Paris
1753 - 1 February,  French troops dispatched from Canada take the Ohio Valley, and begin construction of three forts. - Virginia Governor Hamilton receives a letter stating that French and Mohawks attacked a trading post of John Findly at a place called 'Kentucky'. - George Washington is sent to the French commander in the Ohio country to protest their occupation of disputed lands. - In England land tax is instituted. - Halifax Revives Britain’s claim to the Ohio country through “right of conquest” by “subject” Iroquois. - Benjamin Franklin is awarded the Coply gold medal of the Royal Society for his experiments with electricity, he is appointed by the crown as deputy postmaster general of the British colonies in North America.
1754 - St. Andrews Golf Club, is founded in Scotland. - In England, the Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufacturers is created. -Newcastle becomes head of the ministry as first lord of the Treasury - Britain and France are at war in North America; the issue is boundaries. - Captain Trent starts to build Virginia’s fort at the point where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join to make the Ohio. - Ensign Ward is left in charge. - April, Ensign Ward surrenders to Captain Contrecoeur, who completes building Fort Duquesne. 28 May, Lieutenant Colonel George Washington leads a party of Virginians and Mingos to attack a French party under Ensign Coulon de Jumonville, who is killed under circumstances called “assassination” by the French. - 26 June, Newcastle’s inner cabinet resolves to defend Britain’s northern colonies from French “invasion.”  - 4 July, Washington surrenders encampment called Fort Necessity at Great Meadows after Tanaghrisson’s Mingos desert in contempt of Washington’s leadership. Captain Robert Stobo is given as hostage. -  28-29 July, Captain Stobo smuggles plans of Fort Duquesne to Philadelphia through Delaware chiefs Shingas and Delaware George.  - September, Board of trade and ministry discuss need for unified action by colonies. - Ministry decides upon a military commander in chief to be financed by colonies. Cumberland nominates Edward Braddock.  - 8 September, News of Washington’s surrender reaches London and stimulates Newcastle to appeal for help from Cumberland. -  December, British authorizes Massachusetts governor Shirley to raise troops. .
1755 - January, Britain sends two regiments of troops to Virginia. - February, France sends seventy-eight companies to Canada. - French ministry authorizes instigation of Indians against British colonies. - General Braddock arrives in Williamsburg, Virginia. - British troops defeated by the French near Fort Duquesne in the colonies. - English colonial troops capture French commander Dieskau. - French Fort Beauséjour is taken by the English forces. - British build their first navel vessel on Lake Ontario. - Lisbon, Spain, 30,000 people die in earthquake. - Samuel Johnson publishes "Dictionary of the English Language. "
1756 - May 28, French capture Minorca. - Britain declares war on France, fighting on two fronts in India and North America. - "The Seven Years' War" (1756-63) officially began on August 29, when Frederick of Prussia invades the German State of Saxony. - This war, which was a widening of the conflict between Britain and France in North America, became a world conflict. The combatants  included Prussia and Hanover on the British side against Austria, Russia, Saxony, Spain and Sweden with France.
1757 - Fort William Henry captured and destroyed by French August 9, 1757.
1758 - In July 1758, the first British troops dispatched to Germany under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick.   - August 1, Battle of Minden in Germany - In America, - July 27, British capture French fortress of Louisbourg in Canada - Fort Duquesne is abandoned and burned by the French, the English begin construction of Fort Pitt near the site. - The Easton treaty is signed between the Pennsylvania colonial government and the Delawares, thus settling boundary questions - Appearance of Haley's comet.
1759 - September 13, Battle of Quebec, where both generals Montcalm and Wolfe lost their lives. Battle of Quiberon Bay, a decisive naval engagement.
1760 - Battle of Warburg in Germany July 31 - September 8, Amherst captures Montreal and ends French resistance in Canada.  October 25, death of King George II , he is succeeded by his grandson, George III.
1761 - Agricultural machines are displayed in London in an exhibition by the Society of Arts. - A Russian poet scientist, Mikhail Lomonosov, discovers the atmosphere of Venus. - General Amherst forbids presents of food and arms to Indians. - Senecas present a war belt to Detroit Indians, but it is rejected and disclosed to the fort commander.
1762 - Battle of Wilhelmstahl in Germany - War with Spain breaks out. Sweden and Prussia sign a Treaty of Hamburg, Prussia and Austria sign alliance - Martinique, Grenada, Havana and Manila captured by the British - British expedition captures Buenos Aries from Spain - The Sorbonne Library first opens in Paris - In Scotland, cast iron is converted into malleable iron for the first time at the ironworks in Stirlingshire - June of 1762, with the allied forces surrounding Prussia's army, theRussian empress Elizabeth dies.- Peter III takes over Russia and immediately pulls out of the war.- This turn of fate saved Britain and Prussia and allowed them to sign a peace treaty. - War belts are circulated among western Indians, encouraged by Senecas and Frenchmen. -  August 23, Major Henry Gladwin takes command of Detroit.
1763 - Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Seven years War in Europe with the Peace of Paris - In the American theatre, the French and Indian War ends. - May 9, Pontiac lays siege to Fort Detroit with a force composed of Ottawas, Chippawa, Potawatomi, Huron, Shawnee, and Delaware warriors. Indians near Detroit move east in force Tribal allies destroy forts at Venango, LeBoeuf, and Presque Isle. Senecas wipe out a convoy near Niagara.  - Forts at Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Niagara hold out against besiegers. -  July, On their own initiative, but with sanction from Amherst and Bouquet, the garrison at Fort Pitt start an epidemic among the Indians by infecting besieging chiefs with blankets from the smallpox hospital. -  August 1, Indians withdraw from siege of Fort Pitt. - August 5, Colonel Bouquet fights off an attack at Bushy Run and forces attackers to withdraw. - British government is provided for Quebec, Florida and Grenada by act of law -The "St. James Chronicles" are published in London - Voltaire publishes "Treatise on Tolerance."- New York and New Jersey Chambers of Commerce are formed. - November 17, Amherst embarks for England, he is succeeded as commander in chief by General Thomas Gage.
1764 - The Sugar Act, taxing the colonies, is amended. - London houses are numbered for the first time. - The London Literary Club is founded. - James Watt invents the condenser. - St. Louis' first permanent settlement is established. - Czar Ivan VI is murdered in prison.
1765 - The Stamp Act is passed, taxing the colonies. - Virginia Assembly questions the British governments right to tax. - Delegates from nine colonies meet in New York to draft a declaration of rights and liberties.
1766 - Repeal of the Stamp Act. - Britain's right to tax the colonies is restated in the Declaratory Act. - Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two English surveyors lay down Mason-Dixon Line. - Pontiac treats with William Johnson for peace. - Theatre Royal in Bristol opens. -   Czarina Catherine the Great of Russia declares freedom of worship. - The first paved sidewalk is finished in Westminster, London. - Henry Cavendish discovers hydrogen is lighter than air.
1769 - Scottish inventor James Watt patents a practical steam engine.
1771- First Steam powered vehicle. 
1775 - April, affair at Lexington, and start of the American War of Independence - June 17, Battle of Bunker Hill
1776 - Battle of Long Island August 27.- San Francisco is founded by Spanish officer Juan Bautista de Anza.
1777 - September 11, Battle of Brandywine - October 17, surrender f Burgoyne at Saratoga.
1779 - Start of the siege of Gibraltar.
1780 - Battle of Camden August 16.
1781 - Articles of Confederation a loose union is created by the American states - March 15, Battle of Guildford - October 19, Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
1783 - End of the siege of Gibraltar - Peace of Versailles; end of the War of American Independence.- General George Washington resigned from the Continental Army
1784 - Treaty of Paris ratified, ending the American Revolution
1789 - American Constitution is ratified, creating a stronger central government
1793 - France declares war on Great Britain February 1. -Campaign in the Netherlands (1793 -1794)
1799 - Expedition to North Holland under the Duke of York.