Abraham Blish1712 through 1760
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1700-1721 Great Northern War
1701-1713 War of Spanish Succession
1702-1714 Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart)
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1736 English statutes against witchcraft repealed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
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