...Date... AGE Event
1716/--/-- 0 *** Borden, Innocent (Bozarth) - Born to Borden, James
1716/--/-- 0 - Emperor Charles VI declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1717/--/-- 1 - Eugene of Savoy captures Belgrade from the Turks.
1717/--/-- 1 - French artist Antoine Watteau paints the Pilgrimage to Cythera.
1717/--/-- 1 - John Law forms the Mississippi Company in France.
1717/--/-- 1 - Spain seizes Sardinia and Sicily.
1717/--/-- 1 - The first freemason lodge is formed in London.
1718/--/-- 2 - Charles XII of Sweden is killed during a campaign against Norway.
1718/--/-- 2 - Spain establishes the Viceroyalty of New Granada in South America.
1718/--/-- 2 - Sultan Ahmed III concludes the Treaty of Passarowitz with the Holy Roman Empire.
1718/--/-- 2 - The English pirate Blackbeard is killed by the Virginia militia.
1718/--/-- 2 - The French found New Orleans in Louisiana.
1718/--/-- 2 - The Quadruple Alliance of Austria, Britain, France and the Dutch declare war on Spain.
1718/--/-- 2 - Voltaire writes the tragedy of Oedipe while imprisoned in the Bastille.
1719/--/-- 3 - English writer Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe.
1719/--/-- 3 - James Figg becomes the first heavyweight boxing champion of England.
1719/--/-- 3 - Liechtenstein becomes an independent principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
1719/--/-- 3 - Teams from London and Kent play one of the first cricket matches.
1720/--/-- 4 - The Mississippi Scheme speculation craze collapses in France.
1720/--/-- 4 - The Quadruple Alliance defeats Spain; Spain renounces all claims to Sicily and Sardinia.
1720/--/-- 4 - The South Sea Bubble speculation craze collapses in England.
1720/--/-- 4 - Tibet becomes a protectorate of China.
1720/--/-- 4 - Victor Amadeus II surrenders Sicily to Austria in exchange for Sardinia.
1721/--/-- 5 - German composer Johann Sebastian Bach writes the Brandenburg Concertos.
1721/--/-- 5 - Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti writes his opera Griselda.
1721/--/-- 5 - Prime minister Robert Walpole restores public confidence in Britain's finances.
1721/--/-- 5 - The French settle on the island of Mauritius.
1721/--/-- 5 - The Great Northern War ends; Sweden loses most of her overseas possessions.
1722/--/-- 6 - Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Samoa and Easter Island.
1722/--/-- 6 - English author Daniel Defoe publishes Moll Flanders.
1722/--/-- 6 - The Afghans invade Persia (Iran) and overthrow the Safavid rulers.
1724/--/-- 8 - The British build Fort Dummer, the first permanent European settlement in Vermont.
1724/--/-- 8 - The Quakers make a statement opposing slavery.
1725/--/-- 9 - Danish explorer Vitus Bering begins his voyage in search of a Northeast Passage.
1725/--/-- 9 - Francisco Romero establishes the current style of Spanish bullfighting.
1725/--/-- 9 - Peter the Great dies; his wife Catherine I succeeds him as Empress of Russia.
1726/--/-- 10 - Alexander Pope completes his translation of Homer's Odyssey.
1726/--/-- 10 - Cardinal Andre Fleury becomes chief advisor to Louis XV.
1726/--/-- 10 - English satirist Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels.
1726/--/-- 10 - The Spanish found Montevideo in Uruguay.
1727/--/-- 11 - Catherine I dies; Peter II succeeds her as Emperor of Russia.
1727/--/-- 11 - George II succeeds his father George I as king of Great Britain and Ireland.
1727/--/-- 11 - The Spanish lay siege to Gibraltar.
1727/10/11 11 - George II crowned King of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey by William Wake, Ar
1728/--/-- 12 - Chambers's Cyclopedia; or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences is issued.
1728/--/-- 12 - Danish navigator Vitus Bering explores Bering Strait.
1728/--/-- 12 - English poet and playwright John Gay writes The Beggar's Opera.
1728/--/-- 12 - James Gibbs' Book of Architecture influences Colonial American designs.
1728/--/-- 12 - John Harrison begins his development of an accurate chronometer.
1729/--/-- 13 - Corsica rebels against Genoese rule.
1729/--/-- 13 - Denmark assumes control of Greenland.
1729/--/-- 13 - English actress Kitty Clive establishes her reputation at the Drury Lane Theatre.
1729/--/-- 13 - The city of Baltimore is founded in Maryland.
1729/--/-- 13 - The city of Karachi is founded in India (now in Pakistan).
1730/--/-- 14 - Canaletto paints the Basin of San Marco, one of his many views of Venice.
1730/--/-- 14 - Construction of the Province-hall (now Independence Hall) begins in Philadelphia.
1730/--/-- 14 - Peter II dies; he is succeeded by Anna as Empress of Russia.
1731/--/-- 15 - French novelist Abbe Prevost writes Manon Lescaut.
1731/--/-- 15 - John Hadley invents the quadrant for navigating at sea.
1731/--/-- 15 - The Gentleman's Magazine, the first magazine, is published in London.
1732/--/-- 16 - Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanack in Philadelphia.
1732/--/-- 16 - Covent Garden Opera House opens in London.
1732/--/-- 16 - Nadir Shah expels the Afghans from Persia (Iran) and reinstates Safavid rule.
1732/--/-- 16 - Nicola Salvi designs the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
1732/--/-- 16 - William Hogarth completes his series of engravings The Harlot's Progress.
1733/--/-- 17 - James Oglethorpe founds the colony of Georgia and the city of Savannah.
1733/--/-- 17 - John Kay invents the flying shuttle to increase the speed of weaving machines.
1733/--/-- 17 - Nadir Shah defeats the Turks and occupies Bagdhad.
1733/--/-- 17 - Stanislaw I is elected king of Poland with the support of Louis XV of France.
1733/--/-- 17 - The War of Polish Succession begins.
1734/--/-- 18 - Stanislaw I is deposed; Augustus III is installed as king of Poland.
1734/07/13 18 *** Borden, Innocent (Bozarth) & Bozarth, John [Husband] - Married
1735/--/-- 19 - Antonio de Ulloa discovers the element platinum in South America.
1735/--/-- 19 - George Hadley proposes the Hadley cell, a circulation system for the atmosphere.
1736/--/-- 20 - Ch'ien-lung becomes emperor of China.
1736/--/-- 20 - French artist Maurice Quentin de La Tour paints his Portrait of Voltaire.
1736/--/-- 20 - Nadir assumes the title of Shah of Persia and founds the Afshar dynasty.
1736/--/-- 20 - Parliament passes the Gin Act to discourage public drunkenness in England.
1736/--/-- 20 - Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler begins writing his Mechanica.
1737/--/-- 21 - William Mayo founds the city of Richmond, Virginia.
1738/--/-- 22 - A porcelain factory is established in France at Vincennes; it moves later to Sevres.
1738/--/-- 22 - Bernoulli publishes Hydrodynamica, stating his law of hydrodynamics.
1738/--/-- 22 - George Whitefield precipitates the Great Awakening religious revival in America.
1738/--/-- 22 - The Treaty of Vienna concludes the War of the Polish Succession; Stanislaw I abdicates.
1738/--/-- 22 - The excavation of Herculaneum begins in Italy.
1739/--/-- 23 - John Wesley founds the Methodist religious movement.
1739/--/-- 23 - Mutilation of an English sea captain by the Spanish leads to the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1739/--/-- 23 - The British under Admiral Vernon raid Spanish settlements in the West Indies.
1739/--/-- 23 - The Persians under Nadir Shah defeat the Mogul army and destroy Delhi.
1740/--/-- 24 *** Bozarth, Joseph [Son] - Born to Bozarth, John and Borden, Innocent (Bozarth) Burlington County, New Jersey
1740/--/-- 24 - Anna Empress of Russia dies; she is succeeded by Elizabeth in 1741.
1740/--/-- 24 - Charles VI's daughter Maria Theresa succeeds to the Austrian Habsburg empire.
1740/--/-- 24 - English novelist Samuel Richardson writes Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded.
1740/--/-- 24 - Frederick II (Frederick the Great) assumes the Prussian throne.
1740/--/-- 24 - Frederick II of Prussia invades the Habsburg province of Silesia.
1740/--/-- 24 - Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI dies; the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
1740/--/-- 24 - Scottish philosopher David Hume writes his Treatise of Human Nature.
1740/--/-- 24 - The British under James Oglethorpe attack Spanish possessions in Florida.
1741/--/-- 25 - George Frideric Handel composes the Messiah.
1741/--/-- 25 - Prussia forms an anti-Habsburg coalition with Bavaria, Spain and France.
1742/--/-- 26 - A Spanish invasion of Georgia is defeated by British forces under James Oglethorpe.
1742/--/-- 26 - Maria Theresa makes peace with Frederick II; Silesia is ceded to Prussia.
1742/--/-- 26 - Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius invents the Celsius scale for temperature.
1742/--/-- 26 - The Anti-Habsburg coalition elects Charles VII as Holy Roman Emperor.
1742/--/-- 26 - The cast iron Franklin stove is invented by Benjamin Franklin.
1743/--/-- 27 - An English porcelain factory is established at Chelsea in London.
1743/--/-- 27 - The first permanent bullring is built in Madrid.
1744/--/-- 28 - King George's War begins in North America between Britain and France.
1744/--/-- 28 - Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab founds the Wahhabi Muslim sect about this time.
1745/--/-- 29 - Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) leads a second Jacobite rebellion.
1745/--/-- 29 - Giovanni Piranesi begins his etchings of Carceri d'Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons).
1745/--/-- 29 - Louis XV installs the Marquise de Pompadour as his official mistress.
1745/--/-- 29 - Maria Theresa's husband Francis succeeds Charles VII as Holy Roman Emperor.
1745/--/-- 29 - The British under Pepperrell capture the French fortress of Louisburg in Canada.
1745/--/-- 29 - The French under the Comte de Saxe defeat Austrian, English and Dutch forces at Fontenoy.
1745/--/-- 29 - The Treaty of Dresden confirms Prussian control of Silesia.
1746/--/-- 30 - Britain and France struggle for the domination of India; France seizes Madras.
1746/--/-- 30 - Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) is defeated at Culloden.
1746/--/-- 30 - English actor David Garrick becomes the manager of the Drury Lane Theatre.
1746/--/-- 30 - Ferdinand VI succeeds Philip V as king of Spain.
1746/--/-- 30 - Princeton University is founded in New Jersey.
1747/--/-- 31 - Nadir Shah of Persia (Iran) is assassinated.
1747/--/-- 31 - The Ohio Company is formed to promote settlement west of the Appalachians.
1747/--/-- 31 - The Pathans defeat the Persians; Ahmad Shah Sadozai founds a new dynasty.
1748/--/-- 32 - English artist Thomas Gainsborough paints Robert Andrews and Mary, His Wife.
1748/--/-- 32 - French political philosopher Montesquieu writes The Spirit of the Laws.
1748/--/-- 32 - The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
1749/--/-- 33 - English novelist Henry Fielding writes Tom Jones.
1749/--/-- 33 - Italian dramatist Carlo Goldoni writes La Putta honorata (The Respectable Girl).
1749/--/-- 33 - The British found Halifax in Nova Scotia as a military base.
1750/--/-- 34 - American frontiersman Christopher Gist explores the Ohio River region.
1750/--/-- 34 - Baal Shem Tov founds the Jewish sect of Hasidism about this time.
1750/--/-- 34 - Poona becomes the capital of the Maratha confederacy in India.
1750/--/-- 34 - The Afshars are replaced by the Zand dynasty in Persia (Iran); Shiraz becomes the capital.
1750/--/-- 34 - The Conestoga wagon develops in Pennsylvania about this time.
1750/--/-- 34 - The neoclassical movement in art develops in Europe about this time.
1750/--/-- 34 - The waltz becomes a popular dance in Europe about this time.
1751/--/-- 35 - English novelist Tobias Smollett writes The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker.
1751/--/-- 35 - English soldier Robert Clive captures Arcot in India.
1751/--/-- 35 - Jean Etienne Guettard produces the first geological maps of France.
1751/--/-- 35 - The Worcester Royal Porcelain Company is founded in England.
1751/--/-- 35 - The first volume of Diderot's Encyclopedie is published.
1752/--/-- 36 - Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning conductor.
1752/--/-- 36 - French artist Francois Boucher paints Mademoiselle O'Murphy.
1752/--/-- 36 - Italian artist Tiepolo paints the Marriage of Frederick Barbarossa.
1753/--/-- 37 - Swedish biologist Carolus Linnaeus publishes his system of plant classification.
1753/--/-- 37 - The British Museum is founded in London.
1754/--/-- 38 - French attacks against the English in Ohio lead to the last French and Indian War.
1754/--/-- 38 - Italian architect Rastrelli designs the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad).
1754/--/-- 38 - The Royal and Ancient Golf Club is founded at Saint Andrews in Scotland.
1754/--/-- 38 - Thomas Chippendale publishes The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Directory.
1755/--/-- 39 - Adventurer and lover Casanova is arrested in Venice for witchcraft.
1755/--/-- 39 - Pasquale Paoli founds an independent state in Corsica.
1755/--/-- 39 - Samuel Johnson publishes his Dictionary of the English Language.
1755/--/-- 39 - The British under Braddock are defeated by the French at Fort Duquesne.
1755/--/-- 39 - The French population of Acadia (Nova Scotia) is deported by the British.
1755/--/-- 39 - The Lisbon earthquake kills 50,000.
1756/--/-- 40 - 123 British soldiers are alleged to have died in the Black Hole of Calcutta in Bengal, India.
1756/--/-- 40 - French general Montcalm captures Fort Oswego and dominates the Great Lakes.
1756/--/-- 40 - The Seven Years' War begins with a Prussian attack on Austria.
1756/--/-- 40 - William Pitt (the Elder) becomes prime minister of Britain.
1757/--/-- 41 - Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Franco-Austrian army at Rossbach.
1757/--/-- 41 - Robert Clive defeats the nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey in India.
1758/--/-- 42 *** Alexander, Elizabeth (Bozarth) & Bozarth, Joseph [Son] - Married Monongalia County Virginia
1758/--/-- 42 - Americans and British regulars under General Forbes capture Fort Duquesne.
1758/--/-- 42 - The Burmese overthrow the Mons; Rangoon becomes the new capital of Burma.
1758/--/-- 42 - The French under Montcalm defeat the British at Fort Ticonderoga.
1759/--/-- 43 - French poet and dramatist Voltaire publishes his philosophical novel Candide.
1759/--/-- 43 - Josiah Wedgwood establishes his first pottery works.
1759/--/-- 43 - The Botanical Gardens are founded at Kew in London.
1759/--/-- 43 - The British defeat the French at Niagara; Amherst captures Fort Ticonderoga.
1759/--/-- 43 - The British under Wolfe defeat Montcalm at Quebec; Wolfe dies from his wounds.
1759/--/-- 43 - The Russians defeat Frederick II at Kunersdorf.
1760/--/-- 44 - English architect Robert Adam begins the design of Syon House.
1760/--/-- 44 - English novelist Laurence Sterne publishes the first volumes of Tristram Shandy.
1760/--/-- 44 - George II dies; he is succeeded by his grandson George III as king of England.
1760/--/-- 44 - The British under Amherst capture Montreal, ending French resistance in North America.
1760/--/-- 44 - The Russians invade Prussia and burn Berlin.
1760/09/21 44 *** Bozarth, John [Husband] - Died Nelson County, Kentucky
1761/--/-- 45 - Franz Josef Haydn becomes court composer to Prince Esterhazy.
1761/09/02 45 - George III crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Tho
1762/--/-- 46 *** Borden, Innocent (Bozarth) - Died
1762/--/-- 46 - American Indian religious leader, the Delaware Prophet, is active in the Ohio Valley.
1762/--/-- 46 - Britain seizes Cuba and the Philippines from Spain.
1762/--/-- 46 - British animal painter George Stubbs completes the Horse Attacked by a Lion.
1762/--/-- 46 - Catherine II (Catherine the Great) succeeds her husband as empress of Russia.
1762/--/-- 46 - France cedes Louisiana to Spain to prevent British control of the region.
1762/--/-- 46 - French philosopher Rousseau publishes The Social Contract and Emile.
1762/--/-- 46 - Peter III succeeds Elizabeth as emperor of Russia, but is deposed and murdered.
1762/--/-- 46 - The Russians end their alliance with Austria against Prussia.
1762/--/-- 46 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performs at the Imperial court in Vienna at age 6.
In 1716 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
In 1716 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
By 1762 Communications was by:
Post Office
in addition.
In 1716 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1716 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1716 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1716 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
In 1716 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:57:10