1700 Sweden defeated Russia at battle of Narva
Denmark, Poland & Russia declared war against
Sweden
American colony population about 275,000
rococo style introduced into French architecture
Kabuki Theater, Japan
commode became popular furniture piece
Francisco Romero became first famous Spanish
bullfighter
clarinet was invented by Johann C. Denner
1701 War of Spanish Succession begins
William Kidd hung for piracy
Yale University established
1702 serfdom abolished in Denmark
1703 John Wesley born
Buckingham Palace rebuilt
St.Petersburg founded
1704 French & Indian massacre of Derrfield, Conn.
English took Gibraltar
Daniel Defoe began newspaper "The Review" from
prison
1705 Halley accurately predicted comet's return in 1758
English navy occupied Barcelona
1706 Benjamin Franklin born
1707 England & Scotland became Great Britain
Billiards introduced to Berlin
last eruption of Mt Fujiyama
1708 Charles XII invaded Ukraine
British captured island of Minorca from Spain
1709 peace negotiations at The Hague
invention of the piano by Bartolommeo Cristofori
1st Russian prisoners sent to Siberia
1710 3-color printing invented
British seized Acadia (Nova Scotia) from French
1711 Russia & Turkey at war
clarinet used for 1st time in orchestra
John Shore invented the tuning fork
races at Ascot established
Mobile was founded
1712 last execution of witches in England
St.Petersburg became capital of Russia
slave revolts in New York
Carolina was split into north & south colonies
1713 pigtails introduced in Prussian Army
1714 George I, king of England
tea introduced to America
D.G.Fahrenheit constructs mercury thermometer
with scale
1715 Louis XV, king of France
vaudevilles became popular in Paris
1st Liverpool dock built
1716 Yoshimune became Shogun of Japan
1717 Mongols occupied Lhasa
Handel's "Water Music" 1st given on the Thames
River
John Law's Mississippi Co. held monopoly of trade
with Louisiana
Inoculations of smallpox introduced in England
school attendence in Prussia made compulsory
1718 England declares war on Spain
William Penn dies
Founding of New Orleans
founding of San Antonio
Blackbeard, Edward Teach, pirate killed
1719 France declares war on Spain
Ireland declared inseparable from Great Britain
Liechtenstein becomes independent principality
Mohammed Shah becomes Great Mogul
Daniel Defoe "Robinson Crusoe"
1720 Tibet becomes Chinese protectorate
wallpaper becomes fashionable in England
1721 Swiss immigrants introduce rifles into America
Great War ends, Denmark, Poland & Russia
victorious
1722 Shih Tsung & Yung Cheng dynasty flourishes
Daniel Defoe "Moll Flanders"
British Parliment forbids reporting of debates
1723 "T'u Shu Chi Ch'eng" Chinese encyclopedia
Sir Christopher Wren dies
first school for Native Americans founded
in Williamsburg
Duty on tea reduced
1724 gin drinking popular in Britain
1725 Spanish Steps, Rome, completed
St.Petersburg Academy of Science is founded
Casanova, born
1726 Jonathan Swift "Gulliver's Travels"
Stephen Hale measures blood pressure
1st circulating library in Edinburgh
1727 George II, king of England
England 1st uses Hessian mercenaries
Thomas Gainsborough born
Sir Isaac Newton dies
Quakers demand end to slavery
1728 James Bradley discovers aberration of light of
fixed stars
James Cook born
Vitus Bering discovers Bering Strait
1729 Portugal loses Mombasa to Arabs
Emperor Yung Cheng prohibits opium smoking
in China
1730 Mahmoud I, sultan of Turkey
Christian VI, king of Denmark
1731 Building of State House in Philadelphia, later
known as Independence Hall
10 Downing Street built
quadrant invented for use at sea
1732 George Washington born
James Oglethorpe gets charter to form colony
in Georgia
Benjamin Franklin "Poor Richard's Almanac"
Trevi Fountain was designed by Nicola Salvi
Ninepins played in New York for 1st time
1733 J.S.Bach: short version of Mass in B minor
1734 Koran translated into English
1735 John Adams born, 2nd US President
Paul Revere born, US patriot
1736 Chi-en Lung, emperor of China
Patrick Henry born, US patriot
English statutes against witchcraft repealed
Claudius Aymand performs 1st successful
appendectomy
"India rubber" comes to Britain
1737 Vincent de Paul canonized
1738 J.S.Bach: Mass in B minor (complete version)
Joseph Guillotin born
1st cuckoo clocks in Black Forest area
excavation of Herculameum begins
1739 John Winthrop IV: "Notes on Sunspots"
John Wesley founds the Methodist religious
movement
1740 Frederick II, king of Prussia
Frederick II introduces freedoms of worship & press
1741 Handel: "The Messiah"
Antonio Vivaldi dies
1742 canal to link Elbe & Havel begun
Anders Celsius invented the Celsius scale for
temperature
Benjamin Franklin invents the cast iron "Franklin
Stove"
1743 Thomas Jefferson born
Jean Paul Marat born
first permanent bullring built in Madrid
1744 eruption of Mt.Cotopaxi, S.America
1st recorded cricket match
1745 British take Louisburg, Canada
Ishege, Shogun of Japan
quadrille becomes fashionable dance in France
1746 Francisco de Goya born
Jean-Eteinne Guettard draws 1st geological map
of France
wearing of tartans forbidden in Great Britian
1747 John Paul Jones, Am. naval officer, born
national library founded in Warsaw
1748 Bach: "Die Kunst der Fuge"
John Fothergill describes dyptheria
1749 Halifax is founded as a fortress
Giaccobbo Rodriguez Pereire invents sign language
Henry Fielding: "Tom Jones"
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 George Frideric Handel was one of the greatest composers of the baroque period.
 Daniel Defoe was an English writer of social criticism, satire, and novels.
 Jonathan Swift is most famous as the author of Gulliver's Travels.
 Thomas Gainsborough was one of the most accomplished English painters of the 18th century, excelling both in landscapes and portraits.
 James Cook, the greatest explorer of the 18th century, is known for his voyages to the Pacific Ocean and his application of scientific methods to exploration and to cartography.
 Johann Sebastian Bach, one of the greatest composers in Western musical history, created masterpieces of choral and instrumental music, both sacred and secular.
 The Trevi Fountain in Rome was erected as an imposing entranceway at the point where water from an ancient aqueduct reaches the city.
 Antonio Vivaldi was a major figure in Baroque music and exercised a considerable influence on the development of the concerto.
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