John Bond1696 through 1742
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1689-1702 Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart)
1700-1721 Great Northern War
1701 Captain William Kidd hung for piracy
1701-1713 War of Spanish Succession
1702-1714 Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart)
1707 Mount Fujiyama erupts
1712 Slave revolts in New York
1712 Last execution for witchcraft in England
1714 Farenheit invents mercury thermometer
1714-1727 Reign of King George I (Hanover)
1714 Witch trials abolished in Prussia
1716 Christian teaching forbidden in China
1718 Peter the Great has son and heir murdered
1718 Spain seizes Sicily (from Savoy)
1718 New Orleans founded
1721 Rifles brought to America by the Swiss
1722 Samoa and Easter island discovered by Dutch
1727 Quakers demand abolition of slavery
1727-1760 Reign of King George II (Hanover)
1729 Opium smoking prohibited in China
1733-1735 War of Polish Succession
1736 English statutes against witchcraft repealed
1740-1748 Austrian war of the succession
1741 Slave revolt in New York, 2nd uprising
1742 Celsius invents Centigrade thermometer
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