Hannah Blish1715 through 1815
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1700-1721 Great Northern War
1714-1727 Reign of King George I (Hanover)
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1736 English statutes against witchcraft repealed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)
1787 Constitution is approved by the constitutional congress
1787 New Jersey enters the union - 3rd
1787 Pennsylvania enters the union - 2nd
1787 Delaware enters the union - 1st
1788 Maryland enters the union - 7th
1788 Massachusetts enters the union - 6th
1788 Connecticut enters the union - 5th
1788 Georgia enters the union - 4th
1788 New Hampshire enters the union - 9th
1788 Virginia enters the union - 10th
1788 New York enters the union - 11th
1788 Constitution goes into effect
1788 South Carolina enters the union - 8th
1789-1796 George Washington selected 1st President
1789 North Carolina enters the union - 12th
1789 US Army Established
1790 Rhode Island enters the union - 13th
1790 1st official US census
1790 Coast Guard Established
1791 Federal Bill of rights adopted
1791 Vermont enters the union -14th
1792-1815 Napoleonic war
1792 Denmark 1st to forbid trade in slaves
1792 Kentucky enters the union - 15th
1793 Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves)
1793 Marie Antoinette beheaded
1794 Slavery abolished in French colonies
1794 US Navy Established
1794 US Post Office Established
1796 Tennesee enters the union - 16th
1796 Vaccination against Smallpox
1796-1800 John Adams elected 2nd president of US
1796 Frances presses get right of free speech
1798 Lithography
1798 Mississippi organized as a territory
1798 US Marine Corps Established
1798-1800 Undeclared war with France
1799 Rosetta Stone found
1800 US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC
1800 1st Battery (Volta)
1800-1809 Thomas Jefferson elected president of US
1800 Russia annexes Georgia
1802 Babylonian cuniform deciphered
1803 Fulton propels vessel by steampower
1803 Louisiana Territory Purchased
1803 Ohio enters the union - 17th
1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition
1804 Haiti independent - 1st black country in West. Hemis.
1805 Thomas Jefferson re-elected president of US
1805 Morphine isolated
1807 Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage
1808 Import of new slaves into US Is banned
1808 Pompeii excavation begins in earnest
1809-1816 James Madison elected president of US
1809 Charles Darwin born
1810 US pop. reaches 7.2 million
1810 Homeopathy founded
1812-1814 War of 1812
1812 Missouri organized as a territory
1812 Louisiana enters the union - 18th
1815 French outlaw slavery in France
1815 Battle of Waterloo
1815 Sumbawa volcano (Indonesia) erupts; 50,000 killed
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