Can you name the years of the 18th Century these events took place? by wiggytitch

Event	Year
Sir William Herschel discovers Uranus.
James Cook becomes the first known European to set foot in New Zealand.
Construction begins on Blenheim Palace.
Adam Smith publishes 'The Wealth of Nations.'
James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
John Bevis observes the Crab Nebula for the first time.
James Cook lands in Hawaii, which he calls the Sandwich Islands.
The first boat specialised as a lifeboat is tested.
Franz Ketterer invents the cuckoo clock.
At the Battle of Lesnaya, Peter the Great defeats the Swedes.
Anders Celsius proposes the Celsius temperature scale.
Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
3,000 British troops defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army at the Battle of Plassey.
Johann Sebastian Bach dies aged 65.
St. Patrick's day is celebrated in New York for the first time.
Englishwoman Mary Toft allegedly gives birth to 16 rabbits.
Vitus Bering dies in his expedition east of Siberia.
Highwayman Dick Turpin is hanged for horse theft.
Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn.
Henry Cavendish's paper, 'Experiments on Air,' reveals the composition of water.
The US Library of Congress is founded.
John Law founds the Banque de France.
Frederick William I of Prussia begins his reign.
A French expedition to Lapland proves the Earth is flattened at the poles.
Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island.
Catherine I becomes Empress of Russia.
The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar.
Benjamin Franklin creates the Philadelphia Police Force.
The world's first copyright legislation becomes effective.
The lower 3 counties of the Province of Pennsylvania become the colony of Delaware.
John Shore invents the tuning fork.
Mont Blanc is climbed for the first time.
Forty-seven Ronin attack Kira Yoshinaka and then commit seppuku in Japan.
Napoleon defeats Ottoman forces at the Battle of the Pyramids.

Event	Year
Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded by the British.
Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier is the first person executed by guillotine.
Leonhard Euler publishes Introductio in analysin infinitorum.
Horatio Nelson loses the sight in his right eye.
The first true restaurant opens in Paris.
The Stars and Stripes is adopted as the flag of the United States.
A group of colonists destroy three shiploads of tea in the Boston Tea Party.
The American War of Independence begins.
The Covent Garden Theatre Royal opens.
Lord Mansfield delivers a decision which leads to the emancipation of thousands of English slaves.
The Guinness Brewery is founded in Dublin.
The first recorded women's cricket match takes place.
The Province of Carolina splits into North and South Carolina.
The Acts of Union between Scotland and England become law.
The Hōreki period begins in Japan.
New South Wales, the first permanent European settlement in Australia, is founded.
Antonio Vivaldi composes The Four Seasons.
Georg Brandt discovers and isolates cobalt.
The Bank of North America, the first American commercial bank, opens.
The War of the Polish Succession begins upon the death of Augustus II.
The Treaty of Constantinople is signed between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.
Thomas Twining opens the first known tea room.
Lutheran exiles from Salzburg set sail for Georgia.
Thomas Jefferson is born.
The Battle of Jumonville Glen begins the French and Indian War in North America.
James Bradley uses stellar aberration to calculate the speed of light.
The Daily Universal Register, later known as The Times, is first published.
The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight is made in Paris.
George I becomes King of Great Britain.
Philip Astley stages the world's first modern circus.
The first all cast-iron bridge is constructed over the river Severn.
The League of Armed Neutrality is formed between Sweden, Denmark, and Russia.
Silicon is first identified by Antoine Lavoisier.
The world's first enclosed wet dock opens in Liverpool.

Event	Year
The city of St. Louis is founded.
The Principality of Liechtenstein is created.
Voltaire is imprisoned in the Bastille for a year.
France officially adopts the metre as the unit of length.
George Washington is sworn in for his second term as US President.
Halley's Comet appears for the first time after Halley discovered it.
Sweden becomes the first country to protect freedom of the press in its Constitution.
The First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud.
The song 'Rule, Britannia!' is first performed.
Peter II of Russia dies aged just 14.
Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing more than 60,000 people.
The storming of the Bastille begins the French Revolution.
Mozart's opera 'Ascanio in Alba' premieres in Milan. He is just 15 years old.
Ludwig van Beethoven is born in Bonn in modern-day Germany.
Edmund Halley is appointed Astronomer Royal.
Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Tipu Sultan is defeated and killed by the British at the Battle of Seringapatam.
'Tacky's War', a slave rebellion, occurs in Jamaica.
New Orleans is founded.
Sweden temporarily adopts February 30th as a day, to adjust the Swedish Calendar.
The Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War.
The British Museum is founded.
Dutch admiral Jakob Roggeveen lands on Easter Island.
Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen.
The Battle of Culloden, the last battle fought on British soil, is fought.
Sir Isaac Newton dies aged 84.
Construction on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin ends.
The tune to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is published in France.
The first regular English language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published for the first time.
The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
Horatio Nelson loses his right arm at the Battle of Santa Cruz.
Spencer Perceval, the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated, is born.

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