John Blish1686 through 1786
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1687 Newton publishes his Laws of Motion
1688 Plate glass cast for 1st time
1689-1702 Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart)
1692 The Puritans murder 20 alleged witches in Salem, MA
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1736 English statutes against witchcraft repealed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
1743 1st settlement in S. Dakota
1745 Electrical Capacitor (Leyden Jar)
1749 Sign Language for deaf-mutes
1752 Britain and its colonies adopt Gregorian calender
1752 Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod
1754-1763 French-Indian war
1755 Lisbon earthquake - 30,000 dead
1756-1763 Seven years war
1758 Halleys Comet (1st predicted appearance)
1760-1820 Reign of King George III (Hanover)
1760 Bifocals
1765 Steam Engine
1765 HMS Victory launched
1769 San Francisco bay discovered
1770 Boston Massacre - 5 people killed when British fire on mob
1772-1775 Antarctica circumnavigated by James Cook
1772 Judge Murray decrees that slaves are free on landing in England
1773 Boston Tea Party
1774 1st Continental Congress meets
1775-1783 American Revolutionary War against the British
1775-1782 British war in India
1776 Declaration of Independence
1778 Congress forbids import of slaves into America
1778 France joins war against Britain
1780 Benjamin Franklin discovers lightning is electricity
1781 Uranus discovered
1783 1st working hot air balloon
1784 Thomas Jeffersons proposal to ban slavery defeated
1786 The Dollar is adopted
1786 First attempts at indoor lighting with gas (UK, Germany)
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