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1700/--/-- 0 *** Wood, William - Born
1700/--/-- 0 - Charles II of Spain dies, ending the Spanish Habsburg line.
1700/--/-- 0 - Johann Denner invents the clarinet about this time.
1700/--/-- 0 - Kabuki Theater develops in Japan about this time.
1700/--/-- 0 - Peter the Great's Russian army is defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Narva.
1700/--/-- 0 - Philip V, grandson of Louis XIV, becomes the first Bourbon king of Spain.
1700/--/-- 0 - The Great Northern War begins; Denmark, Poland and Russia attack Sweden.
1700/--/-- 0 - The Swedes under Charles XII defeat the Danes.
1700/--/-- 0 - The rococo style is introduced into French architecture about this time.
1700/--/-- 0 - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is produced in London.
1701/--/-- 1 - Captain Kidd is hanged for piracy.
1701/--/-- 1 - Frederick I Elector of Saxony proclaims himself the first king of Prussia.
1701/--/-- 1 - French artist Hyacinthe Rigaud paints a portrait of Louis XIV.
1701/--/-- 1 - The Act of Settlement in Britain establishes the Hanoverian succession to the throne.
1701/--/-- 1 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1701/--/-- 1 - Yale University is founded in New Haven, Connecticut.
1702/--/-- 2 - Anne succeeds William III as queen of England.
1702/--/-- 2 - England declares war on France and Spain.
1702/--/-- 2 - French fur traders found Vincennes, the first permanent European settlement in Indiana.
1702/--/-- 2 - Queen Anne's War begins in America; the British attack Saint Augustine in Florida.
1702/--/-- 2 - The Camisards (French Huguenots) rebel in southern France.
1702/--/-- 2 - The French under the duc de Villars defeat the Grand Alliance at Friedlingen.
1702/--/-- 2 - The first daily newspaper The Daily Courant is published in London.
1702/--/-- 2 - The royal colony of New Jersey is founded in America.
1702/04/03 2 - Anne crowned Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Tho
1703/--/-- 3 - Archduke Charles of Austria claims the Spanish throne for the Habsburgs.
1703/--/-- 3 - Buckingham Palace is rebuilt for the Duke of Buckingham in London.
1703/--/-- 3 - Peter the Great lays the foundations of St. Petersburg (Leningrad).
1704/--/-- 4 - Augustus II is deposed; Stanislaw I is crowned king of Poland.
1704/--/-- 4 - Issac Newton publishes his theory of color and light in Opticks.
1704/--/-- 4 - John Campbell founds the Boston News-Letter, the first successful American newspaper.
1704/--/-- 4 - The Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy defeat the French at Blenheim.
1704/--/-- 4 - The English capture Gibraltar from Spain.
1704/--/-- 4 - The Indians and the French massacre British settlers in Deerfield, Mass.
1705/--/-- 5 - Edmund Halley predicts that the comet of 1682 will return in 1758.
1705/--/-- 5 - Nicolas Hawksmoor designs Blenheim Palace for the Duke of Marlborough.
1705/--/-- 5 - The English Navy occupies Barcelona.
1706/--/-- 6 - Eugene of Savoy defeats the French at Turin and drives them from Italy.
1706/--/-- 6 - George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer is produced.
1706/--/-- 6 - The Duke of Marlborough conquers the Spanish Netherlands.
1707/--/-- 7 - Emperor Aurangzeb dies; the Mogul empire begins to decline in India.
1707/--/-- 7 - Great Britain is formed by the Act of Union between England and Scotland.
1707/--/-- 7 - John V succeeds Peter II as king of Portugal.
1707/--/-- 7 - Mount Fuji erupts in Japan; an earthquake kills 200,000 in Tokyo.
1707/--/-- 7 - The British attack the French colony of Acadia (Nova Scotia).
1707/--/-- 7 - The Duke of Berwick routs the allied forces at Almanza in Spain.
1707/03/-- 7 - Act of Union combines England and Scotland as Kingdom of Great Britain.
1708/--/-- 8 - French forces under Vendome are defeated by Marlborough at Oudenarde.
1708/--/-- 8 - Sikh leader Guru Gobind Singh is assassinated; the Moguls persecute the Sikhs.
1708/--/-- 8 - The British capture the island of Minorca from Spain.
1709/--/-- 9 - Abraham Darby builds a blast furnace using coke for casting iron.
1709/--/-- 9 - Charles XII of Sweden flees to the Ottoman Empire.
1709/--/-- 9 - Italian musician Bartolommeo Cristofori invents the piano.
1709/--/-- 9 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Poltava.
1709/--/-- 9 - Steele and Addison's periodical The Tatler is published in London.
1709/--/-- 9 - The Duke of Marlborough defeats the French at the Battle of Malplaquet.
1709/--/-- 9 - The first Copyright Act becomes law in Britain.
1710/--/-- 10 *** Coleman, Mary (Wood) [Wife] - Born Leicester, Leicestershire, England
1710/--/-- 10 - Augustus II regains the Polish throne.
1710/--/-- 10 - Charles XII persuades the Turks to attack Russia.
1710/--/-- 10 - French forces under Vendome defeat the allies at Villaviciosa in Spain.
1710/--/-- 10 - George Berkeley publishes a Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.
1710/--/-- 10 - The British seize Acadia (Nova Scotia) from the French.
1710/--/-- 10 - The Meissen porcelain factory is founded near Dresden in Germany.
1711/--/-- 11 - Joseph I dies; Charles VI is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1711/--/-- 11 - Publication of The Tatler ceases; Steele and Addison introduce The Spectator.
1711/--/-- 11 - The French found the first permanent settlement in Alabama at Mobile.
1711/--/-- 11 - The Tuscarora War begins in North Carolina when Indians massacre 130 colonists.
1711/--/-- 11 - The building of the baroque Zwinger complex begins in Dresden, Germany.
1712/--/-- 12 - Carolina is divided into north and south colonies.
1712/--/-- 12 - English poet Alexander Pope publishes The Rape of the Lock.
1712/--/-- 12 - The New England whaling industry expands rapidly with the hunting of sperm whales.
1713/--/-- 13 - Emperor Charles VI issues the Pragmatic Sanction, allowing for a female heir.
1713/--/-- 13 - France cedes Acadia (Nova Scotia) and Newfoundland to Britain.
1713/--/-- 13 - Frederick William I succeeds Frederick I as king of Prussia.
1713/--/-- 13 - Sicily is ceded to the House of Savoy; Victor Amadeus II is crowned as king.
1713/--/-- 13 - Spain cedes Gibraltar and Minorca to Britain.
1713/--/-- 13 - The Asiento Treaty establishes British rights to the African slave trade.
1713/--/-- 13 - The Peace of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession.
1714/--/-- 14 - German composer George Frideric Handel makes London his permanent home.
1714/--/-- 14 - Grinling Gibbons is appointed as master carver in wood to George I.
1714/--/-- 14 - Queen Anne of England dies; she is succeeded by George I, Elector of Hanover.
1714/10/20 14 - George I crowned King of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey by Thomas Tenison, A
1715/--/-- 15 - A Jacobite uprising supports James Edward as the Old Pretender to the British throne.
1715/--/-- 15 - French King Louis XIV dies; he is succeeded by his five-year-old great-grandson Louis XV.
1715/--/-- 15 - French author Alain Rene Lesage publishes the Adventures of Gil Blas.
1715/--/-- 15 - Japan's leading playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon writes The Battles of Coxinga.
1715/--/-- 15 - Phillipe II Duc d'Orleans becomes regent of France.
1715/--/-- 15 - The Yamasee Indians rebel against British settlers in South Carolina.
1716/--/-- 16 - Emperor Charles VI declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1717/--/-- 17 - Eugene of Savoy captures Belgrade from the Turks.
1717/--/-- 17 - French artist Antoine Watteau paints the Pilgrimage to Cythera.
1717/--/-- 17 - John Law forms the Mississippi Company in France.
1717/--/-- 17 - Spain seizes Sardinia and Sicily.
1717/--/-- 17 - The first freemason lodge is formed in London.
1718/--/-- 18 - Charles XII of Sweden is killed during a campaign against Norway.
1718/--/-- 18 - Spain establishes the Viceroyalty of New Granada in South America.
1718/--/-- 18 - Sultan Ahmed III concludes the Treaty of Passarowitz with the Holy Roman Empire.
1718/--/-- 18 - The English pirate Blackbeard is killed by the Virginia militia.
1718/--/-- 18 - The French found New Orleans in Louisiana.
1718/--/-- 18 - The Quadruple Alliance of Austria, Britain, France and the Dutch declare war on Spain.
1718/--/-- 18 - Voltaire writes the tragedy of Oedipe while imprisoned in the Bastille.
1719/--/-- 19 - English writer Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe.
1719/--/-- 19 - James Figg becomes the first heavyweight boxing champion of England.
1719/--/-- 19 - Liechtenstein becomes an independent principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
1719/--/-- 19 - Teams from London and Kent play one of the first cricket matches.
1720/--/-- 20 - The Mississippi Scheme speculation craze collapses in France.
1720/--/-- 20 - The Quadruple Alliance defeats Spain; Spain renounces all claims to Sicily and Sardinia.
1720/--/-- 20 - The South Sea Bubble speculation craze collapses in England.
1720/--/-- 20 - Tibet becomes a protectorate of China.
1720/--/-- 20 - Victor Amadeus II surrenders Sicily to Austria in exchange for Sardinia.
1721/--/-- 21 - German composer Johann Sebastian Bach writes the Brandenburg Concertos.
1721/--/-- 21 - Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti writes his opera Griselda.
1721/--/-- 21 - Prime minister Robert Walpole restores public confidence in Britain's finances.
1721/--/-- 21 - The French settle on the island of Mauritius.
1721/--/-- 21 - The Great Northern War ends; Sweden loses most of her overseas possessions.
1722/--/-- 22 - Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Samoa and Easter Island.
1722/--/-- 22 - English author Daniel Defoe publishes Moll Flanders.
1722/--/-- 22 - The Afghans invade Persia (Iran) and overthrow the Safavid rulers.
1724/--/-- 24 - The British build Fort Dummer, the first permanent European settlement in Vermont.
1724/--/-- 24 - The Quakers make a statement opposing slavery.
1725/--/-- 25 - Danish explorer Vitus Bering begins his voyage in search of a Northeast Passage.
1725/--/-- 25 - Francisco Romero establishes the current style of Spanish bullfighting.
1725/--/-- 25 - Peter the Great dies; his wife Catherine I succeeds him as Empress of Russia.
1726/--/-- 26 - Alexander Pope completes his translation of Homer's Odyssey.
1726/--/-- 26 - Cardinal Andre Fleury becomes chief advisor to Louis XV.
1726/--/-- 26 - English satirist Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels.
1726/--/-- 26 - The Spanish found Montevideo in Uruguay.
1727/--/-- 27 - Catherine I dies; Peter II succeeds her as Emperor of Russia.
1727/--/-- 27 - George II succeeds his father George I as king of Great Britain and Ireland.
1727/--/-- 27 - The Spanish lay siege to Gibraltar.
1727/10/11 27 - George II crowned King of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey by William Wake, Ar
1728/--/-- 28 - Chambers's Cyclopedia; or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences is issued.
1728/--/-- 28 - Danish navigator Vitus Bering explores Bering Strait.
1728/--/-- 28 - English poet and playwright John Gay writes The Beggar's Opera.
1728/--/-- 28 - James Gibbs' Book of Architecture influences Colonial American designs.
1728/--/-- 28 - John Harrison begins his development of an accurate chronometer.
1729/--/-- 29 *** Wood, Abram [Son] - Born to Wood, William and Coleman, Mary (Wood) England
1729/--/-- 29 - Corsica rebels against Genoese rule.
1729/--/-- 29 - Denmark assumes control of Greenland.
1729/--/-- 29 - English actress Kitty Clive establishes her reputation at the Drury Lane Theatre.
1729/--/-- 29 - The city of Baltimore is founded in Maryland.
1729/--/-- 29 - The city of Karachi is founded in India (now in Pakistan).
1730/--/-- 30 - Canaletto paints the Basin of San Marco, one of his many views of Venice.
1730/--/-- 30 - Construction of the Province-hall (now Independence Hall) begins in Philadelphia.
1730/--/-- 30 - Peter II dies; he is succeeded by Anna as Empress of Russia.
1731/--/-- 31 *** Wood, Thomas [Son] - Born to Wood, William and Coleman, Mary (Wood) England
1731/--/-- 31 - French novelist Abbe Prevost writes Manon Lescaut.
1731/--/-- 31 - John Hadley invents the quadrant for navigating at sea.
1731/--/-- 31 - The Gentleman's Magazine, the first magazine, is published in London.
1732/--/-- 32 *** Wood, William [Son] - Born to Wood, William and Coleman, Mary (Wood)
1732/--/-- 32 - Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanack in Philadelphia.
1732/--/-- 32 - Covent Garden Opera House opens in London.
1732/--/-- 32 - Nadir Shah expels the Afghans from Persia (Iran) and reinstates Safavid rule.
1732/--/-- 32 - Nicola Salvi designs the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
1732/--/-- 32 - William Hogarth completes his series of engravings The Harlot's Progress.
1733/--/-- 33 - James Oglethorpe founds the colony of Georgia and the city of Savannah.
1733/--/-- 33 - John Kay invents the flying shuttle to increase the speed of weaving machines.
1733/--/-- 33 - Nadir Shah defeats the Turks and occupies Bagdhad.
1733/--/-- 33 - Stanislaw I is elected king of Poland with the support of Louis XV of France.
1733/--/-- 33 - The War of Polish Succession begins.
1734/--/-- 34 *** Wood, Katherine [Daughter] - Born to Wood, William and Coleman, Mary (Wood)
1734/--/-- 34 - Stanislaw I is deposed; Augustus III is installed as king of Poland.
1735/--/-- 35 *** Wood, John [Son] - Born to Wood, William and Coleman, Mary (Wood) Leicestershire, England
1735/--/-- 35 - Antonio de Ulloa discovers the element platinum in South America.
1735/--/-- 35 - George Hadley proposes the Hadley cell, a circulation system for the atmosphere.
1736/--/-- 36 - Ch'ien-lung becomes emperor of China.
1736/--/-- 36 - French artist Maurice Quentin de La Tour paints his Portrait of Voltaire.
1736/--/-- 36 - Nadir assumes the title of Shah of Persia and founds the Afshar dynasty.
1736/--/-- 36 - Parliament passes the Gin Act to discourage public drunkenness in England.
1736/--/-- 36 - Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler begins writing his Mechanica.
1737/--/-- 37 *** Wood, Samuel [Son] - Born to Wood, William and Coleman, Mary (Wood) Leicester, England
1737/--/-- 37 - William Mayo founds the city of Richmond, Virginia.
1738/--/-- 38 - A porcelain factory is established in France at Vincennes; it moves later to Sevres.
1738/--/-- 38 - Bernoulli publishes Hydrodynamica, stating his law of hydrodynamics.
1738/--/-- 38 - George Whitefield precipitates the Great Awakening religious revival in America.
1738/--/-- 38 - The Treaty of Vienna concludes the War of the Polish Succession; Stanislaw I abdicates.
1738/--/-- 38 - The excavation of Herculaneum begins in Italy.
1739/--/-- 39 - John Wesley founds the Methodist religious movement.
1739/--/-- 39 - Mutilation of an English sea captain by the Spanish leads to the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1739/--/-- 39 - The British under Admiral Vernon raid Spanish settlements in the West Indies.
1739/--/-- 39 - The Persians under Nadir Shah defeat the Mogul army and destroy Delhi.
1740/--/-- 40 *** Wood, George [Son] - Born to Wood, William and Coleman, Mary (Wood)
1740/--/-- 40 - Anna Empress of Russia dies; she is succeeded by Elizabeth in 1741.
1740/--/-- 40 - Charles VI's daughter Maria Theresa succeeds to the Austrian Habsburg empire.
1740/--/-- 40 - English novelist Samuel Richardson writes Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded.
1740/--/-- 40 - Frederick II (Frederick the Great) assumes the Prussian throne.
1740/--/-- 40 - Frederick II of Prussia invades the Habsburg province of Silesia.
1740/--/-- 40 - Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI dies; the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
1740/--/-- 40 - Scottish philosopher David Hume writes his Treatise of Human Nature.
1740/--/-- 40 - The British under James Oglethorpe attack Spanish possessions in Florida.
1741/--/-- 41 - George Frideric Handel composes the Messiah.
1741/--/-- 41 - Prussia forms an anti-Habsburg coalition with Bavaria, Spain and France.
1742/--/-- 42 - A Spanish invasion of Georgia is defeated by British forces under James Oglethorpe.
1742/--/-- 42 - Maria Theresa makes peace with Frederick II; Silesia is ceded to Prussia.
1742/--/-- 42 - Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius invents the Celsius scale for temperature.
1742/--/-- 42 - The Anti-Habsburg coalition elects Charles VII as Holy Roman Emperor.
1742/--/-- 42 - The cast iron Franklin stove is invented by Benjamin Franklin.
1743/--/-- 43 - An English porcelain factory is established at Chelsea in London.
1743/--/-- 43 - The first permanent bullring is built in Madrid.
1744/--/-- 44 - King George's War begins in North America between Britain and France.
1744/--/-- 44 - Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab founds the Wahhabi Muslim sect about this time.
1745/--/-- 45 - Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) leads a second Jacobite rebellion.
1745/--/-- 45 - Giovanni Piranesi begins his etchings of Carceri d'Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons).
1745/--/-- 45 - Louis XV installs the Marquise de Pompadour as his official mistress.
1745/--/-- 45 - Maria Theresa's husband Francis succeeds Charles VII as Holy Roman Emperor.
1745/--/-- 45 - The British under Pepperrell capture the French fortress of Louisburg in Canada.
1745/--/-- 45 - The French under the Comte de Saxe defeat Austrian, English and Dutch forces at Fontenoy.
1745/--/-- 45 - The Treaty of Dresden confirms Prussian control of Silesia.
1746/--/-- 46 *** Wood, Abraham [Son] - Born to Wood, William and Coleman, Mary (Wood)
1746/--/-- 46 - Britain and France struggle for the domination of India; France seizes Madras.
1746/--/-- 46 - Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) is defeated at Culloden.
1746/--/-- 46 - English actor David Garrick becomes the manager of the Drury Lane Theatre.
1746/--/-- 46 - Ferdinand VI succeeds Philip V as king of Spain.
1746/--/-- 46 - Princeton University is founded in New Jersey.
1747/--/-- 47 - Nadir Shah of Persia (Iran) is assassinated.
1747/--/-- 47 - The Ohio Company is formed to promote settlement west of the Appalachians.
1747/--/-- 47 - The Pathans defeat the Persians; Ahmad Shah Sadozai founds a new dynasty.
1748/--/-- 48 *** Wood, Ruth [Daughter] - Born to Wood, William and Coleman, Mary (Wood)
1748/--/-- 48 - English artist Thomas Gainsborough paints Robert Andrews and Mary, His Wife.
1748/--/-- 48 - French political philosopher Montesquieu writes The Spirit of the Laws.
1748/--/-- 48 - The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
1749/--/-- 49 - English novelist Henry Fielding writes Tom Jones.
1749/--/-- 49 - Italian dramatist Carlo Goldoni writes La Putta honorata (The Respectable Girl).
1749/--/-- 49 - The British found Halifax in Nova Scotia as a military base.
1750/--/-- 50 - American frontiersman Christopher Gist explores the Ohio River region.
1750/--/-- 50 - Baal Shem Tov founds the Jewish sect of Hasidism about this time.
1750/--/-- 50 - Poona becomes the capital of the Maratha confederacy in India.
1750/--/-- 50 - The Afshars are replaced by the Zand dynasty in Persia (Iran); Shiraz becomes the capital.
1750/--/-- 50 - The Conestoga wagon develops in Pennsylvania about this time.
1750/--/-- 50 - The neoclassical movement in art develops in Europe about this time.
1750/--/-- 50 - The waltz becomes a popular dance in Europe about this time.
1751/--/-- 51 *** Wood, Isaac [Son] - Born to Wood, William and Coleman, Mary (Wood)
1751/--/-- 51 - English novelist Tobias Smollett writes The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker.
1751/--/-- 51 - English soldier Robert Clive captures Arcot in India.
1751/--/-- 51 - Jean Etienne Guettard produces the first geological maps of France.
1751/--/-- 51 - The Worcester Royal Porcelain Company is founded in England.
1751/--/-- 51 - The first volume of Diderot's Encyclopedie is published.
1752/--/-- 52 - Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning conductor.
1752/--/-- 52 - French artist Francois Boucher paints Mademoiselle O'Murphy.
1752/--/-- 52 - Italian artist Tiepolo paints the Marriage of Frederick Barbarossa.
1753/--/-- 53 - Swedish biologist Carolus Linnaeus publishes his system of plant classification.
1753/--/-- 53 - The British Museum is founded in London.
1754/--/-- 54 - French attacks against the English in Ohio lead to the last French and Indian War.
1754/--/-- 54 - Italian architect Rastrelli designs the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad).
1754/--/-- 54 - The Royal and Ancient Golf Club is founded at Saint Andrews in Scotland.
1754/--/-- 54 - Thomas Chippendale publishes The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Directory.
1755/--/-- 55 - Adventurer and lover Casanova is arrested in Venice for witchcraft.
1755/--/-- 55 - Pasquale Paoli founds an independent state in Corsica.
1755/--/-- 55 - Samuel Johnson publishes his Dictionary of the English Language.
1755/--/-- 55 - The British under Braddock are defeated by the French at Fort Duquesne.
1755/--/-- 55 - The French population of Acadia (Nova Scotia) is deported by the British.
1755/--/-- 55 - The Lisbon earthquake kills 50,000.
1756/--/-- 56 - 123 British soldiers are alleged to have died in the Black Hole of Calcutta in Bengal, India.
1756/--/-- 56 - French general Montcalm captures Fort Oswego and dominates the Great Lakes.
1756/--/-- 56 - The Seven Years' War begins with a Prussian attack on Austria.
1756/--/-- 56 - William Pitt (the Elder) becomes prime minister of Britain.
1757/--/-- 57 - Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Franco-Austrian army at Rossbach.
1757/--/-- 57 - Robert Clive defeats the nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey in India.
1758/--/-- 58 - Americans and British regulars under General Forbes capture Fort Duquesne.
1758/--/-- 58 - The Burmese overthrow the Mons; Rangoon becomes the new capital of Burma.
1758/--/-- 58 - The French under Montcalm defeat the British at Fort Ticonderoga.
1759/--/-- 59 - French poet and dramatist Voltaire publishes his philosophical novel Candide.
1759/--/-- 59 - Josiah Wedgwood establishes his first pottery works.
1759/--/-- 59 - The Botanical Gardens are founded at Kew in London.
1759/--/-- 59 - The British defeat the French at Niagara; Amherst captures Fort Ticonderoga.
1759/--/-- 59 - The British under Wolfe defeat Montcalm at Quebec; Wolfe dies from his wounds.
1759/--/-- 59 - The Russians defeat Frederick II at Kunersdorf.
1760/--/-- 60 - English architect Robert Adam begins the design of Syon House.
1760/--/-- 60 - English novelist Laurence Sterne publishes the first volumes of Tristram Shandy.
1760/--/-- 60 - George II dies; he is succeeded by his grandson George III as king of England.
1760/--/-- 60 - The British under Amherst capture Montreal, ending French resistance in North America.
1760/--/-- 60 - The Russians invade Prussia and burn Berlin.
1761/--/-- 61 - Franz Josef Haydn becomes court composer to Prince Esterhazy.
1761/09/02 61 - George III crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Tho
1762/--/-- 62 - American Indian religious leader, the Delaware Prophet, is active in the Ohio Valley.
1762/--/-- 62 - Britain seizes Cuba and the Philippines from Spain.
1762/--/-- 62 - British animal painter George Stubbs completes the Horse Attacked by a Lion.
1762/--/-- 62 - Catherine II (Catherine the Great) succeeds her husband as empress of Russia.
1762/--/-- 62 - France cedes Louisiana to Spain to prevent British control of the region.
1762/--/-- 62 - French philosopher Rousseau publishes The Social Contract and Emile.
1762/--/-- 62 - Peter III succeeds Elizabeth as emperor of Russia, but is deposed and murdered.
1762/--/-- 62 - The Russians end their alliance with Austria against Prussia.
1762/--/-- 62 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performs at the Imperial court in Vienna at age 6.
1763/--/-- 63 - Augustus III dies; he is succeeded (1764) by Stanislaw II, the last king of Poland.
1763/--/-- 63 - Britain returns Cuba and the Philippines to Spain in exchange for Florida.
1763/--/-- 63 - France cedes Canada and all territories east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
1763/--/-- 63 - France recognizes British dominance in India.
1763/--/-- 63 - French forces withdraw from Germany; Prussia retains Silesia.
1763/--/-- 63 - James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson for the first time.
1763/--/-- 63 - The Ottawa chief Pontiac leads an uprising against the British.
1763/--/-- 63 - The Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War and the French and Indian Wars.
1763/--/-- 63 - The Wahhabi Saudis begin to establish control over Arabia.
1764/--/-- 64 - German historian Johann Winckelmann publishes his History of the Art of Antiquity.
1764/--/-- 64 - Thomas Chatterton forges the Rowley poems at the age of 12.
1765/--/-- 65 - Francis I dies; he is succeeded by Joseph II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1765/--/-- 65 - French artist Francois Boucher is appointed court painter to Louis XV.
1765/--/-- 65 - George Grenville's Stamp Act imposes a tax on all publications in the American colonies.
1765/--/-- 65 - Horace Walpole publishes his Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto.
1765/--/-- 65 - Lancelot Capability Brown designs the gardens at Blenheim Palace.
1765/--/-- 65 - Robert Clive is appointed governor of Bengal in India.
1765/--/-- 65 - Samuel Adams helps to found the Sons of Liberty to oppose the Stamp Act.
1765/--/-- 65 - Sir William Blackstone begins his Commentaries on the Laws of England.
1766/--/-- 66 - Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith publishes The Vicar of Wakefield.
1766/--/-- 66 - English chemist Henry Cavendish isolates hydrogen gas for the first time.
1766/--/-- 66 - French artist Jean Honore Fragonard paints The Swing.
1766/--/-- 66 - German dramatist and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing publishes Laocoon.
1766/--/-- 66 - The Declaratory Act imposes Parliament's right to make laws in the colonies.
1766/--/-- 66 - The Nautical Almanac provides the first practical method for determining longitude.
1766/--/-- 66 - The Stamp Act is repealed after strong opposition from American colonists.
1767/--/-- 67 - German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck writes his opera Alceste.
1767/--/-- 67 - German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn publishes Phaedon.
1767/--/-- 67 - The Burmese destroy the Siam capital of Ayutthaya; the Bangkok Period begins.
1767/--/-- 67 - The Mason-Dixon line establishes the Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary.
1767/--/-- 67 - The Townshend Acts impose a tax on imports to North America.
1768/--/-- 68 - Genoa sells its rights in Corsica to France.
1768/--/-- 68 - Joshua Reynolds becomes the first president of the Royal Academy in London.
1768/--/-- 68 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville claims the Pacific island of Tahiti for France.
1768/--/-- 68 - The Russo-Turkish War is renewed.
1768/--/-- 68 - The first weekly numbers of the Encyclopaedia Britannica are issued.
1769/--/-- 69 - American pioneer Daniel Boone explores a route through the Cumberland Gap.
1769/--/-- 69 - French forces in Corsica defeat Pasquale Paoli; Corsica becomes a province of France.
1769/--/-- 69 - James Watt patents a condenser to improve the performance of steam engines.
1769/--/-- 69 - Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac is assassinated by a Peoria Indian.
1769/--/-- 69 - Richard Arkwright invents a spinning frame to mechanize cotton weaving.
1769/--/-- 69 - The Comtesse du Barry becomes the official mistress to Louis XV.
1769/--/-- 69 - The Gurkhas conquer Nepal.
1770/--/-- 70 - A brawl between British troops and colonists leads to the Boston Massacre.
1770/--/-- 70 - British explorer James Bruce discovers the source of the Blue Nile.
1770/--/-- 70 - English artist Thomas Gainsborough paints The Blue Boy.
1770/--/-- 70 - English navigator James Cook explores New Zealand and the east coast of Australia.
1770/--/-- 70 - Lord North becomes prime minister of Britain.
1770/--/-- 70 - Louis, the future king of France, marries Marie Antoinette.
1770/--/-- 70 - The British Parliament repeals the Townshend Acts.
1770/--/-- 70 - Thomas Jefferson begins building Monticello, his house in Virginia.
1771/--/-- 71 *** Reives, Sarah (Wood) & Wood, Samuel [Son] - Married
1771/--/-- 71 - Governor Tyron defeats the Regulators (dissident farmers) in North Carolina.
1771/--/-- 71 - Gustav III succeeds his father as king of Sweden.
1772/--/-- 72 - American artist Benjamin West paints The Death of Wolfe.
1772/--/-- 72 - English artist Joshua Reynolds paints a Portrait of Samuel Johnson.
1772/--/-- 72 - Poland is partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria.
1773/--/-- 73 - American colonists throw British tea into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party.
1773/--/-- 73 - Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith writes the play She Stoops to Conquer.
1773/--/-- 73 - Calcutta is established as the capital of British India.
1773/--/-- 73 - Don Cossack Yemelian Pugachev leads the Peasant's Revolt in Russia.
1773/--/-- 73 - Pope Clement XIV persecutes the Jesuits.
1773/06/13 73 *** Wood, William [Grandson] - Born to Wood, Samuel and Reives, Sarah (Wood) Loudoun, Virginia
1774/--/-- 74 - Britain passes the Intolerable Acts and closes the port of Boston.
1774/--/-- 74 - British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen.
1774/--/-- 74 - Edmund Burke's speech On American Taxation defends the colony's rights.
1774/--/-- 74 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes The Sorrows of Young Werther.
1774/--/-- 74 - Louis XV dies; he is succeeded by his grandson Louis XVI as king of France.
1774/--/-- 74 - Rhode Island becomes the first state to abolish slavery.
1774/--/-- 74 - The Quebec Act grants religious liberty to Roman Catholics in Canada.
1774/--/-- 74 - The Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji ends the Russo-Turkish War.
1774/--/-- 74 - The first Continental Congress meets and condemns Britain's Intolerable Acts.
1774/--/-- 74 - Warren Hastings is appointed as the first Governor-General of British India.
1774/10/26 74 *** Wood, James [Grandson] - Born to Wood, Samuel and Reives, Sarah (Wood) Loudoun, Virginia
1775/--/-- 75 - American patriot Patrick Henry states "Give me liberty, or give me death."
1775/--/-- 75 - Americans under Montgomery occupy Montreal, but fail to capture Quebec.
1775/--/-- 75 - British troops and colonial militia clash at Lexington, starting the American Revolution.
1775/--/-- 75 - British troops suffer heavy losses at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
1775/--/-- 75 - French dramatist Caron de Beaumarchais writes the Barber of Seville.
1775/--/-- 75 - Paul Revere rides to Lexington to warn of approaching British troops.
1775/--/-- 75 - Revolutionary War Begins
1775/--/-- 75 - The Continental Congress chooses George Washington to head the Continental Army.
1776/--/-- 76 - American General Charles Lee is captured by the British.
1776/--/-- 76 - Ann Lee establishes a Shaker community at Wartervliet in New York.
1776/--/-- 76 - British forces are evacuated from Boston.
1776/--/-- 76 - British forces under Sir Henry Clinton bombard Charleston harbor.
1776/--/-- 76 - Charles Burney publishes the first volume of A General History of Music.
1776/--/-- 76 - David Bushnell's submarine the Turtle makes an abortive attack on British ships.
1776/--/-- 76 - Economist Adam Smith publishes the Wealth of Nations.
1776/--/-- 76 - Edward Gibbon publishes the first volume of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1776/--/-- 76 - Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin organizes the Russian Black Sea fleet.
1776/--/-- 76 - Howe defeats Washington at White Plains; Washington retreats across the Delaware.
1776/--/-- 76 - Nathan Hale is executed by the British as a spy.
1776/--/-- 76 - Swiss banker Jacques Necker is appointed director of the treasury by Louis XVI.
1776/--/-- 76 - The British under Howe defeat Washington on Long Island and occupy New York.
1776/--/-- 76 - The Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence.
1776/--/-- 76 - The Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) literary movement begins in Germany.
1776/--/-- 76 - Thomas Paine publishes his Revolutionary War pamphlet Common Sense.
1776/--/-- 76 - Washington defeats British forces at Trenton and Princeton (1777).
1777/--/-- 77 - Burgoyne capitulates to Horatio Gates' American forces at Saratoga.
1777/--/-- 77 - Christianity is introduced into Korea.
1777/--/-- 77 - French chemist Lavoisier proves that air is composed of oxygen and nitrogen.
1777/--/-- 77 - General Burgoyne captures Ticonderoga and defeats the Americans in Pennsylvania.
1777/--/-- 77 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy The School for Scandal is produced.
1777/--/-- 77 - The British under Howe capture Philadelphia, forcing Congress to flee.
1777/--/-- 77 - The British under Howe defeat Washington's Continental Army at Brandywine Creek.
1777/--/-- 77 - The Continental Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes as the American flag.
1777/--/-- 77 - The Marquis de Lafayette offers his services to the Continental Congress.
1777/--/-- 77 - Washington's Continental Army spends a hard winter at Valley Forge.
1777/03/30 77 *** Wood, Samuel [Grandson] - Born to Wood, Samuel and Reives, Sarah (Wood) Loudoun, Virginia
1778/--/-- 78 - English novelist Fanny Burney writes Evelina.
1778/--/-- 78 - France enters the American War of Independence in support of the colonies.
1778/--/-- 78 - Franz Anton Mesmer opens a Paris practice to treat patients using magnetism.
1778/--/-- 78 - John Singleton Copley paints Watson and the Shark.
1778/--/-- 78 - La Scala opera house opens in Milan, Italy.
1778/--/-- 78 - Portugal transfers its rights in Equatorial Guinea to Spain.
1778/--/-- 78 - Washington clashes with British forces under Clinton at Monmouth, N.J.
1779/--/-- 79 - American forces under Sullivan campaign against the Iroquois on the New York border.
1779/--/-- 79 - An American squadron led by John Paul Jones attacks British shipping.
1779/--/-- 79 - British explorer James Cook is killed by natives on Hawaii.
1779/--/-- 79 - George Rogers Clark recaptures Vincennes from the British.
1779/--/-- 79 - Samuel Crompton develops his spinning mule for England's cotton industry.
1779/--/-- 79 - Samuel Johnson begins writing The Lives of the Poets
1779/--/-- 79 - Spain declares war on Britain and lays siege to Gibraltar.
1779/--/-- 79 - War breaks out between Dutch settlers and the Xhosas in South Africa.
1779/08/25 79 *** Wood, Thomas [Grandson] - Born to Wood, Samuel and Reives, Sarah (Wood)
1780/--/-- 80 - Americans under Horatio Gates are defeated by Cornwallis at Camden, S.C.
1780/--/-- 80 - Andre's capture exposes Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
1780/--/-- 80 - English spy John Andre is caught and executed by the Americans.
1780/--/-- 80 - Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter lead guerrilla forces against the British.
1780/--/-- 80 - Luigi Galvani begins experiments on the effect of electricity on nerves and muscles.
1780/--/-- 80 - Maria Theresa dies; Joseph II inherits the crown of Bohemia and Hungary.
1780/--/-- 80 - Peruvian Indians under Tupac Amaru revolt against Spainish rule.
1780/--/-- 80 - The British under Clinton occupy Charleston, S.C. and capture the garrison.
1780/--/-- 80 - The Derby horse race is established in England.
1780/--/-- 80 - The Gordon Riots begin in London against Catholic emancipation.
1780/--/-- 80 - Venetian artist Francesco Guardi paints the Gondola on the Lagoon.
1780/02/09 80 *** Wood, William - Died Leicester, Leicestershire, England Leicester, Leicestershire, England
In 1700 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
In 1700 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
By 1780 Communications was by:
Post Office
in addition.
In 1700 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1700 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1700 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1700 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
By 1780 War Making was by:
Submarine
in addition.
By 1780 War Making by:
Bow & Arrow
Swords & body armor
had been discontinued.
In 1700 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:53:31