1721 The treaty of Nystad ends the Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden
1701 The Ashanti city-states complete their union and become the Kingdom of Ashanti with the capital at Kumasi
1703 The Genroku earthquake and subsequent tsunami kills up to 10'000 people and marks the end of the Genroku Period
1707 The Act of Union merges the parliaments of England and this country to create a new entity
1707 The Mughals are confined to their old capital after losing a 27 year war against the Maratha Empire
1711-1715 Tuscarora War opposes European settlers & Iroquois speaking Tuscaroras
1712 The first ever shipment of coffee from Java arrives at this European city
1713 Treaty of Utrecht signed by 6 monarchs end a long War of Succession by installing Philip of Anjou as King of this country, so long as he renounces the French throne
1716 Establishment of the Sikh Confederacy
1718 This French colonial city was founded in order to develop cotton plantations
1720-1721 The last significant outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe hits this commercial port and causes 100'000 deaths
1722 Sultan Husayn is overthrown by Pashtun marauders in his capital city. This marks the downfall of the Safavid Dynasty
1725 The Fulani Jihad States begin at Futa Jallon and spread across the Sahel
1740 Massacre of 10'000 Chinese civilians at Batavia on suspicion of rebellion against the colonial power
1741 Russian expansion reaches the Aleutians
1780 Tupac Amaru II leads an indigenous rebellion against Spain and becomes a lasting figure for the indigenous rights movement
1755-1764 Great-Britain begins the forceful removal of French Speakers from Acadia
1759 The Battle of the Plains of Abraham lead to British control of Canada
1762-1796 Catherine the Great rules from this capital city
1763 The Kingdom of Mysore conquers much of Karnataka
1767 The Ayutthaya Kingdom is conquered by Burma
1768 Gurkhas establish this new kingdom
1769 New Spain's North expansion with 21 Franciscan Missions mark the first European settlements in this future US State
1769 Mayer Rothschild becomes Count Factor of Prince Wilhelm of Hesse, marking the beggining of the Rothschild financial empire
1772 Austria, Prussia and Russia take over this country, erasing it from the map for 123 years
1773 The East India Company colony choose this city as their capital, with the aim to permanently establish British rule in India
1773 ... Tea Party leads to the American Revolutionary War
1776 The United States Declaration of Independence is signed
1776 Publication of Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations' is considered the birth of modern Economics
1778 Tay Son peasant revolts overthrow the Nguyen and Trinh noble clans
1779 James Cook is killed by natives after he kidnapped chief Kalani'opu'u
1779 Beginning of the Xhosa Wars which will last 100 years
1783 Russia annexes the Crimean Khanate
1788 First permanent European settlement in Australia
1789 The Storming of the Bastille marks the turning point in the ... Revolution
1788-1789 The Inconfidencia Mineira conspiracy fails to make their state independent from Portugal
1791 Toussaint L'Ouverture begins the revolution to free Saint-Domingue from France
1792 The Buttonwood Agreement founds the ... Stock Exchange
1727 King Ismail Ibn Sharif dies after having united a large Alaouite Kingdom in the Maghreb
1796 The British eject the Dutch from Ceylon
1796-1804 White Lotus Rebellion which kills 100'000
1797 Napoleon invades this city-state ending 1000 years of independence of the Serene Republic
1735-1796 Qianlong Emperor Hongli rules over the most prosperous period of his Dynasty from the Qing capital
1710-1711 The Russo-Ottoman War ends with the Ottoman Empire annexing their vassal states of Wallachia and Moldavia
1722-1723 The Persian Campaign of Peter the Great sees his country gain these territories from Persia
1723-1730 Dzungar raids across the Altay until 90% of their population were killed by the Qing Dynasty
1775 Catherine II abolishes the Cossack military order, puting an end to the Cossack Hetmanate
1739-1748 War of Jenkins' Ear between Spain and Great Britain due to trade disputes
1733 Kay's invention of the Flying Shuttle and in 1764 Hargreave's Spinning Jenny usher in the Industrial Revolution
1708-1750 JS Bach becomes one of the most prolific and iconic composers of the Baroque era
1756 Birth of Mozart
1742 Anders Celsius proposes the Celcius temperature scale at Uppsala University
1799 Alessandro Volta invents the first electrical battery at the University of Pavia
1795 The Cape Colony is taken over by Great Britain
1744 Mohammed Ibn Saud founds a new state by uniting desert tribes
1711-1739 Danish expeditions to this territory in search of riches and Norse settlers
1762 During the Seven Year war, Great Britain invades the Spanish colonial capital of the Philippines
1785-1810 King Andrianampoinimerina succeeds in uniting almost all his island under Merina rule and keeping out French and British colons
1713 The Treaty of Utrecht gives sovereignty of this territory to Great Britain's Hudson's Bay Company
1766 Charles III expulses the Jesuits from New Spain, thus ending the auto-da-fe and ushering the downfall of the Spanish Inquisition
1776 The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is created to diminish the power of the Peruvian Viceroy
1718-1730 The Tulip Era brings the Renaissance arts to the capital of Sultan Ahmed III and across the Orient
1796 Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccine
1749 Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi ejects the Persian occupiers from this country and becomes the first Sultan of the Al-Said dynasty, which still reign in 2019
1722-1770 Two European visits to this most remote island (Dutch and Spanish, 48 years apart) witnessed the decline and demise of the once complex & prosperous Rapa Nui civilization
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