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18th Century |
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| Former slave
Toussaint L'Ouverture establishes Haiti, first independent Latin American state. Napoleon establishes Society to Encourage French Inventors. Alessandro Volta develops the electric battery. |
1800 |
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| T. R. Malthus publishes Essay on the Principle of Population. | 1798 |
Federalists pass the Alien and Sedition Acts. | |||
| Beethoven begins to compose music. | 1795 | ||||
| Jacobin Constitution of France adopted. January 9 Jean-Pierre Blanchard begins first manned balloon trip in US. |
1793 | ||||
| Thomas Paine publishes Rights
of Man. Claude and Ignace Chappe invent flag semaphore. |
1791 | ||||
| September 25 Bill of Rights added as the
First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. August 26 Declaration of the Rights of Man by Emmanual Joseph Sieyes adopted by the Constituent Assembly of France. June 8 James Madison proposes Bill of Rights. |
1789 | ||||
| January 25 Daniel Shays leads a rebellion of 2000 farmers protesting unfair conditions. | 1787 | ||||
| Thomas Jefferson writes the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom. | 1786 | ||||
| Society of the Cincinnati founded. | 1783 | ||||
| First children's clinic established in London. | 1779 | ||||
| February
17 Edward Gibbon publishes
The
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. July 4 American colonies adopt the Declaration of Independence. June 12 Virginia Declaration of Rights adpopted, written by George Mason. |
1776 | ||||
| April 14 Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first American anti-slavery society, founded by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. | 1775 | ||||
| December 16 Boston Tea Party. | 1774 | ||||
| James Watt
invents the steam engine. Mozart begins to compose music |
1769 | ||||
| 1767 | Jesuits expelled from Spain, Parma, and the Two Sicilies. | ||||
| John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, invents the sandwich. | 1765 | ||||
| Voltaire publishes Treatise on Tolerance. | 1763 | British bioterrorist Gen. Jeffery Amherst orders smallpox-infected blankets given to to Delaware Indians at a peace-making parley. | |||
| 1757 | The Parlement of Toulouse publically burns the books of Hermann Busembaum. | ||||
| Edmund Burke
publishes
Origin
of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.
First chocolate factory built in Germany. |
1756 | ||||
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Biblioteca
Nazionale founded in Florence, Italy.
National Library founded in Warsaw. |
1747 | ||||
| 1746 | Wearing tartans prohibited in Great Britain. | ||||
| 1743 | Pogroms begin in Russia. | ||||
| P. L. M. de Maupertuis suggests a survival of the fittest concept in Essai de cosmologie. | 1741 | ||||
| Frederick the Great establishes freedom of press and worship in Prussia. | 1740 | ||||
| England repeals
statutes against witchcraft. Leonhard Euler publishes Mechanica sive motus analytice exposita, the first systematic textbook of mechanics. |
1736 | ||||
| John Peter Zenger wins a landmark victory for freedom of the press English Parliament passes a Copyright Act. | 1735 | ||||
| John Kay invents
the flying shuttle.
Alexander Pope writes Essay on Man. |
1733 | ||||
| Benjamin Franklin establishes a subscription library in Philadelphia. | 1731 | Expulsion of Protestants from Salzburg. | |||
| "Gaudeamus Igitur" is published. | 1730 | ||||
| Jonathan Swift
writes "A
Modest Proposal." Benjamin and James Franklin publishes Pennsylvania Gazette. |
1729 | Emperor Yung Chen forbids opium smoking in China. | |||
| Quakers demand
abolition of slavery. J. H. Schulze pioneers photography. |
1727 | ||||
| England allows Jews to take oaths without the words, "On the true faith of a Christian." | 1723 | ||||
| Serialization of novels begins in newspapers. | 1720 | ||||
| 1719 | Jesuits expelled from Russia. | ||||
| Prussia makes school attendance compulsory. | 1717 | ||||
| 1716 | Christian
religious teaching prohibited in China.
First Italian newspaper, Diario di Roma, begins publication. |
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| Board of Longitude offers £20,000 to anyone who can devise a means of determining a ship's longitude. | 1714 | ||||
| Emanuel Timoni describes a smallpox immunization method. | 1713 | ||||
| Pensylvania
outlaws importation of slaves. Thomas Newcome develops the first practical atmospheric steam engine. |
1712 | ||||
| Queen Anne
establishes the first copyright laws. England negotiates its first peaceful transfer of power. |
1710 | ||||
| Industrial
Revolution begins in England. Abraham Darby extracts coke from bituminous coal. |
1709 | ||||
| Sir John Floyer introduces counting heartbeats. | 1707 | ||||
| Thomas Newcomen
invents a steam engine. Queen Anne knights Sir Isaac Newton. |
1705 | ||||
| America's first periodical, the weekly News-Letter published by John Campbell. | 1704 | ||||
| May 1 Peter the Great establishes St. Petersburg. | 1703 | Daniel Defoe pilloried for his pamphlet, "The Shortest Way with Dissenters." | |||
| March 11 London's first daily newspaper, the Daily Courant begins publication. | 1702 | ||||
| Jethro Tull invents a three-row seed-planting drill. | 1701 | ||||
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