...Date... AGE Event
1660/--/-- 0 *** Bayless, Ruth - Born to Bayless, John and Stillwell, Rebecca Flushing, Queens, NY
1660/--/-- 0 - Charles II is restored to the English throne by Parliament.
1660/--/-- 0 - Dutch farmers (Boers) settle in South Africa.
1660/--/-- 0 - Dutch genre artist Gabriel Metsu paints The Sick Child.
1660/--/-- 0 - English public servant Samuel Pepys begins his Diary.
1660/--/-- 0 - Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, gains control of Prussia from Poland.
1660/--/-- 0 - Louis XIV of France marries Marie Therese of Spain.
1660/--/-- 0 - Peter Stuyvesant founds the first permanent settlement in New Jersey at Bergen (Jersey City).
1660/--/-- 0 - The Bambara kingdom begins to flourish on the upper Niger about this time.
1660/--/-- 0 - The Peace of Copenhagen ends the war between Sweden and Denmark.
1660/--/-- 0 - The Peace of Oliva ends the war between Sweden, Poland, Austria and Brandenburg.
1660/--/-- 0 - The Peace of Oliva ends the war between Sweden, Poland, Austria and Brandenburg.
1660/--/-- 0 - Theaters are reopened in England; the period of Restoration drama begins.
1660/05/09 0 - Charles Stuart restored to throne of England as Charles II.
1661/--/-- 1 - Charles II orders that Cromwell's corpse be disinterred, hanged and beheaded.
1661/--/-- 1 - Chinese pirate Koxinga drives the Dutch from Formosa (Taiwan).
1661/--/-- 1 - Dutch-born artist Peter Lely is made court painter to Charles II.
1661/--/-- 1 - Emperor K'ang-hsi succeeds to the throne in China.
1661/--/-- 1 - The English acquire Bombay from Portugal.
1661/--/-- 1 - The first Bible printed in North America is John Elliot's translation into Algonquian.
1661/04/03 1 - Charles II crowned King of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey by William
1662/--/-- 2 *** Bayless, Rebecca [Sister] - Born to Bayless, John and Stillwell, Rebecca Long Island, NY
1662/--/-- 2 - Charles II grants a charter to the Royal Society of London for Natural Knowledge.
1662/--/-- 2 - France purchases Dunkerque from England.
1662/--/-- 2 - French architect Andre Le Notre designs the gardens for the Palace of Versailles.
1662/--/-- 2 - Robert Boyle develops his theory of gases (now known as Boyle's Law).
1662/--/-- 2 - The Portuguese surrender Tangier to England.
1662/--/-- 2 - The Theatre Royal is built in Drury Lane, London.
1663/--/-- 3 - Dutch genre artist Jan Steen paints the Woman Undressing.
1663/--/-- 3 - The Ottoman Turks invade Hungary.
1663/--/-- 3 - The first turnpike (toll) roads are established in England.
1664/--/-- 4 - England seizes New Amsterdam from the Dutch, renaming it New York.
1664/--/-- 4 - The Austrians defeat the Turks at Saint Gotthard and conclude a 20-year truce.
1664/--/-- 4 - The French East India Company is founded.
1664/--/-- 4 - The Trappists order of monks is founded at La Trappe in France.
1665/--/-- 5 *** Bayless, John [Brother] & Rusco, Ruth - Married
1665/--/-- 5 - An outbreak of the Great Plague begins in London.
1665/--/-- 5 - Charles II succeeds Philip IV as king of Spain.
1665/--/-- 5 - Dutch genre artist Gerard Ter Borch paints the Flea Hunt.
1665/--/-- 5 - England and Portugal defeat Spain and establish Portuguese independence.
1665/--/-- 5 - Jean Baptiste Colbert becomes minister of finance for Louis XIV.
1665/--/-- 5 - Robert Hooke publishes his microscope observations in Micrographia.
1665/--/-- 5 - The Portuguese invade the Kingdom of Kongo and kill the monarch Antonio I.
1665/--/-- 5 - The Second Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1665/--/-- 5 - The first horse race track in North America is constructed on Long Island.
1666/--/-- 6 - British scientist Isaac Newton completes his theory of fluxional calculus.
1666/--/-- 6 - Large sections of London are destroyed in the Great Fire.
1666/--/-- 6 - Moliere's play The Misanthrope is performed for the first time.
1666/--/-- 6 - Puritans from Connecticut settle in New Jersey.
1666/--/-- 6 - Sabbatai Zevi claims to be the messiah and founds a Jewish sect.
1666/--/-- 6 - The Alawite dynasty assumes power in Morocco.
1666/--/-- 6 - The French join the Dutch in the war with England.
1667/--/-- 7 - English poet John Milton writes Paradise Lost.
1667/--/-- 7 - Japanese poet Basho begins to compose his haiku poetry.
1667/--/-- 7 - Louis XIV begins the War of Devolution and captures the Spanish Netherlands.
1667/--/-- 7 - Louis XIV sponsors the first official Salon art exhibition at the Louvre.
1667/--/-- 7 - Mexico City Cathedral is completed.
1667/--/-- 7 - Suleiman succeeds Abbas II as shah of Persia (Iran).
1667/--/-- 7 - The Dutch acquire Suriname from the British in exchange for Manhattan.
1667/--/-- 7 - The Dutch destroy the English fleet at anchor in the Medway.
1667/--/-- 7 - The Peace of Breda ends the war between the English, French and Dutch.
1667/--/-- 7 - The building of the Paris Observatory is begun.
1668/--/-- 8 - A Triple Alliance of England, Sweden, and the Dutch Republic is formed against France.
1668/--/-- 8 - By the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle France gives up its conquests but keeps Flanders.
1668/--/-- 8 - By the Treaty of Lisbon Spain recognizes the independence of Portugal.
1668/--/-- 8 - French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine begins publishing his Fables.
1668/--/-- 8 - Jacques Marquette founds the first settlement in Michigan at Sault Saint Marie.
1668/--/-- 8 - King John II of Poland abdicates; he is succeeded by Michael Wisniowiecki.
1669/--/-- 9 - French courtesan Madame de Sevigne begins writing her Letters.
1669/--/-- 9 - German Alchemist Hennig Brandt makes phosphorus for the first time.
1669/--/-- 9 - Louis Le Vau begins the expansion of the Palace of Versailles for Louis XIV.
1669/--/-- 9 - Mount Etna erupts in Italy, killing 20,000.
1669/--/-- 9 - Venice surrenders Crete to the Ottoman Turks.
1670/--/-- 10 - English architect Sir Christopher Wren begins rebuilding Saint Paul's Cathedral.
1670/--/-- 10 - The Don Cossacks under Stenka Razin rebel against Russian rule.
1670/--/-- 10 - The English establish a settlement at Charles Towne (Charleston), South Carolina.
1670/--/-- 10 - The Hudson's Bay Company is founded.
1671/--/-- 11 - Buccaneers under Sir Henry Morgan capture the city of Panama.
1672/--/-- 12 - Astronomer Giovanni Cassini becomes the first director of the Paris Observatory.
1672/--/-- 12 - Grenades become an important weapon; the French army forms grenadier companies.
1672/--/-- 12 - Jean Baptiste Lully produces the first French operas.
1672/--/-- 12 - Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban founds the French army engineering corps.
1672/--/-- 12 - The French and British declare war on the Dutch.
1672/--/-- 12 - William III prince of Orange leads the defense of the Netherlands.
1673/--/-- 13 - Leibniz begins to develop his theories of differential and integral calculus.
1673/--/-- 13 - Marquette and Jolliet explore the Great Lakes region and the Mississippi River.
1673/--/-- 13 - The Polish army under John Sobieski defeats the Turks at Cochim (Khotin).
1673/--/-- 13 - The Test Act excludes Catholics from public office in England.
1673/--/-- 13 - The first mail service in North America is established between New York and Boston.
1674/--/-- 14 - Early American artist the Freake limner paints portraits of the Freake family.
1674/--/-- 14 - Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I declares war on France.
1674/--/-- 14 - John Sobieski is elected as King John III of Poland.
1674/--/-- 14 - Maratha leader Sivaji establishes a kingdom in Maharashtra, India.
1674/--/-- 14 - The Dutch under William III make peace with England.
1674/--/-- 14 - The Treaty of Westminster establishes New Yorkers as British subjects.
1675/--/-- 15 - Conflict begins between the Indians under King Philip and New England settlers .
1675/--/-- 15 - Dutch-Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza finishes his Ethics.
1675/--/-- 15 - English dramatist William Wycherley writes The Country Wife.
1675/--/-- 15 - King Philip's War (Indian) MASS, RI
1675/--/-- 15 - The Prussians under Frederick William defeat the Swedes at Fehrbellin.
1675/--/-- 15 - The Royal Observatory is established at Greenwich.
1676/--/-- 16 - Bacon's Rebellion, VA
1676/--/-- 16 - English playwright Sir George Etherege writes Man of Mode.
1676/--/-- 16 - German astronomer Ole Romer discovers the velocity of light.
1676/--/-- 16 - Indians in New England are subdued after the year-long King Philip's War.
1676/--/-- 16 - The Sikhs under Guru Gobind Singh revolt against Mogul rule in India.
1676/--/-- 16 - The Swedes defeat the Danes at the Battle of Lunden.
1677/--/-- 17 - Charles II appoints Henry Purcell as court composer.
1677/--/-- 17 - English author John Dryden writes the tragedy All for Love.
1677/--/-- 17 - French dramatist Jean Racine writes the tragedy of Phedre.
1677/--/-- 17 - William III prince of Orange marries Mary, daughter of the Duke of York.
1678/--/-- 18 - Charles Le Brun designs the Hall of Mirrors for the Palace of Versailles.
1678/--/-- 18 - Comtesse de La Fayette writes the novel La Princesse de Cleves.
1678/--/-- 18 - French explorer Louis Hennepin discovers Niagara Falls.
1678/--/-- 18 - John Bunyan publishes the first part of The Pilgrim's Progress.
1678/--/-- 18 - The Hungarians rebel against Habsburg rule.
1678/--/-- 18 - The Treaty of Nijmegen establishes peace between France, the Dutch and Spain.
1679/--/-- 19 - The English Parliament passes the Habeas Corpus Act.
1680/--/-- 20 - Antonio Stradivari opens his violin workshop in Cremona, Italy.
1680/--/-- 20 - Sadler's Wells theater opens in London.
1680/--/-- 20 - The Comedie Francaise is founded in Paris.
1681/--/-- 21 - Aurangzeb suppresses a Rajput revolt and campaigns against Hindu kingdoms in India.
1681/--/-- 21 - English Quaker William Penn is granted the Providence of Pennsylvania.
1681/--/-- 21 - John Dryden publishes his satirical poem Absalom and Achitophel.
1681/--/-- 21 - The dodo, a large flightless bird, becomes extinct.
1682/--/-- 22 *** Stillwell, Rebecca [Mother] - Died
1682/--/-- 22 - Edmund Halley observes the Great Comet, which is later named for him.
1682/--/-- 22 - French explorer La Salle navigates the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
1682/--/-- 22 - Peter the Great succeeds Fyodor III as tsar of Russia.
1682/--/-- 22 - The Palace of Versailles becomes the French royal residence.
1682/--/-- 22 - The Spanish establish the first settlement in Texas at Yselta (near El Paso).
1682/--/-- 22 - William Penn founds the city of Philadelphia.
1682/12/13 22 *** Bayless, John [Father] - Died Rose Row, Long Island, Nassau Co, NY Rose Row, Long Island, Nassau Co, NY also Jamaica, Long Island, NY
1683/--/-- 23 *** Bayless, Daniel [Nephew] - Born to Bayless, John and Rusco, Ruth
1683/--/-- 23 - Chinese emperor K'ang-hsi conquers Formosa (Taiwan).
1683/--/-- 23 - Louis XIV secretly marries Madame de Maintenon .
1683/--/-- 23 - The Turks lay siege to Vienna but are defeated by Imperial and Polish forces.
1683/--/-- 23 - Van Leeuwenhoek's microscope drawings of Protozoa are published.
1683/--/-- 23 - William Penn makes a peace treaty with the Delaware Indians.
1684/--/-- 24 - England abandons Tangier to the Moroccans.
1684/--/-- 24 - La Salle claims Louisiana, a region from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, for France.
1684/--/-- 24 - The Dutch whaling fleet at Spitsbergen (Svalbard) numbers 246 vessels.
1685/--/-- 25 - Charles II of England dies; he is succeeded by his brother James II.
1685/--/-- 25 - Increase Mather becomes president of Harvard College.
1685/--/-- 25 - Japanese Bunraku (puppet theater) is performed in Osaka about this time.
1685/--/-- 25 - Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes and exiles thousands of French Huguenots.
1685/--/-- 25 - Rice cultivation begins in North America.
1685/--/-- 25 - The Duke of Monmouth rebels against James II; he is captured and executed.
1685/--/-- 25 - The Huguenots begin a silk industry in London and settle in the American colonies.
1685/04/03 25 - James II crowned King of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey by William Sa
1686/--/-- 26 - Henri de Tonty establishes the first European settlement in Arkansas.
1686/--/-- 26 - The League of Augsburg is formed as a coalition of European states against France.
1686/--/-- 26 - The Turks are expelled from Budapest by a Habsburg army.
1687/--/-- 27 - English actress and royal mistress Nell Gwynne dies.
1687/--/-- 27 - Isaac Newton publishes Principia, establishing his laws of motion and gravity.
1687/--/-- 27 - James II issues a Declaration of Indulgence suspending the laws against Catholics.
1687/--/-- 27 - The city of Lima, Peru, is virtually destroyed by an earthquake.
1688/--/-- 28 - English Protestants demand a Glorious Revolution against Catholicism.
1688/--/-- 28 - Insurance underwriters begin meeting at Lloyd's Coffee House in London.
1688/--/-- 28 - Louis XIV declares war on the Holy Roman Empire and captures Heidelberg.
1688/--/-- 28 - William of Orange is invited to England as king; James II escapes to France.
1689/--/-- 29 - British composer Henry Purcell writes the opera Dido and Aeneas.
1689/--/-- 29 - Chinese emperor K'ang-hsi establishes diplomatic relations with Russia.
1689/--/-- 29 - England and the Netherlands join the Grand Alliance against France.
1689/--/-- 29 - French and Indian allies attack English colonists during King William's War.
1689/--/-- 29 - William and Mary are proclaimed king and queen of England.
1689/01/08 29 - James II declared to have abdicated by Parliament.
1689/02/03 29 - William III and Mary II proclaimed King and Queen of England, Scotland, and Irel
1689/04/01 29 - William III and Mary II crowned King and Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland
1690/--/-- 30 - Benjamin Harris publishes the first American newspaper in Boston.
1690/--/-- 30 - Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora publishes The Misadventures of Alfonso Ramirez.
1690/--/-- 30 - Jose Churriguera becomes court architect to Philip V of Spain.
1690/--/-- 30 - Philosopher John Locke publishes his Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
1690/--/-- 30 - Spain joins the War of Grand Alliance against France.
1690/--/-- 30 - The French defeat the English fleet at the Battle of Beachy Head.
1690/--/-- 30 - William III defeats James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1691/--/-- 31 - Juana Ines de la Cruz writes a defense of women's rights Reply to Sister Philotea.
1691/--/-- 31 - The Irish rebellion ends with the Treaty of Limerick.
1692/--/-- 32 - Port Royal in Jamaica is destroyed by an earthquake; the city of Kingston is founded.
1692/--/-- 32 - Salem Witchcraft Trials, MASS
1692/--/-- 32 - The Macdonald clan are massacred by the Campbells at Glencoe in Scotland.
1692/--/-- 32 - The first English patent for a wallpaper design is issued.
1692/--/-- 32 - Witchcraft trials are held at Salem in New England.
1693/--/-- 33 - James Blair founds William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1693/--/-- 33 - John Ray publishes the first major classification of animals.
1694/--/-- 34 - The Academie Francaise introduces the first French national dictionary.
1694/--/-- 34 - The Bank of England is founded.
1694/12/28 34 - William III rules as sole King.
1696/--/-- 36 - Russia annexes the Kamchatka Peninsula.
1696/--/-- 36 - Russian tsar Peter the Great captures Azov from the Turks.
1696/--/-- 36 - The Chinese under K'ang-hsi defeat the Dzungar Mongol chieftain Galdan.
1696/--/-- 36 - William III campaigns in Holland against the French.
1697/--/-- 37 - Augustus II elector of Saxony becomes king of Poland.
1697/--/-- 37 - French poet Charles Perrault publishes the Tales From Mother Goose.
1697/--/-- 37 - Russian tsar Peter the Great sets out to study the European way of life.
1697/--/-- 37 - Sir John Vanbrugh's play The Relapse is produced in London.
1697/--/-- 37 - The Habsburg army under Eugene of Savoy defeats the Turks at Zenta.
1697/--/-- 37 - The Treaty of Ryswick ends the War of the Grand Alliance.
1698/--/-- 38 - Calcutta is founded by the British East India Company.
1698/--/-- 38 - Russian tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards.
1698/--/-- 38 - Thomas Savery invents a water pump -- the first practical application of steam power.
1699/--/-- 39 - Austria, Russia, Poland and Venice sign the Peace of Karlowitz treaty with Turkey.
1699/--/-- 39 - Francis Moore's Vox stellarum, known as Old Moore's Almanac, is published.
1699/--/-- 39 - Japanese master ceramicist Ogata Kenzan opens his kiln at Narutaki.
1699/--/-- 39 - Peter the Great changes the Russian New Year from September 1 to January 1.
1699/--/-- 39 - William Dampier explores the northwest coast of Australia.
1700/--/-- 40 - Charles II of Spain dies, ending the Spanish Habsburg line.
1700/--/-- 40 - Johann Denner invents the clarinet about this time.
1700/--/-- 40 - Kabuki Theater develops in Japan about this time.
1700/--/-- 40 - Peter the Great's Russian army is defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Narva.
1700/--/-- 40 - Philip V, grandson of Louis XIV, becomes the first Bourbon king of Spain.
1700/--/-- 40 - The Great Northern War begins; Denmark, Poland and Russia attack Sweden.
1700/--/-- 40 - The Swedes under Charles XII defeat the Danes.
1700/--/-- 40 - The rococo style is introduced into French architecture about this time.
1700/--/-- 40 - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is produced in London.
1701/--/-- 41 - Captain Kidd is hanged for piracy.
1701/--/-- 41 - Frederick I Elector of Saxony proclaims himself the first king of Prussia.
1701/--/-- 41 - French artist Hyacinthe Rigaud paints a portrait of Louis XIV.
1701/--/-- 41 - The Act of Settlement in Britain establishes the Hanoverian succession to the throne.
1701/--/-- 41 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1701/--/-- 41 - Yale University is founded in New Haven, Connecticut.
1702/--/-- 42 - Anne succeeds William III as queen of England.
1702/--/-- 42 - England declares war on France and Spain.
1702/--/-- 42 - French fur traders found Vincennes, the first permanent European settlement in Indiana.
1702/--/-- 42 - Queen Anne's War begins in America; the British attack Saint Augustine in Florida.
1702/--/-- 42 - The Camisards (French Huguenots) rebel in southern France.
1702/--/-- 42 - The French under the duc de Villars defeat the Grand Alliance at Friedlingen.
1702/--/-- 42 - The first daily newspaper The Daily Courant is published in London.
1702/--/-- 42 - The royal colony of New Jersey is founded in America.
1702/04/03 42 - Anne crowned Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Tho
1703/--/-- 43 - Archduke Charles of Austria claims the Spanish throne for the Habsburgs.
1703/--/-- 43 - Buckingham Palace is rebuilt for the Duke of Buckingham in London.
1703/--/-- 43 - Peter the Great lays the foundations of St. Petersburg (Leningrad).
1704/--/-- 44 - Augustus II is deposed; Stanislaw I is crowned king of Poland.
1704/--/-- 44 - Issac Newton publishes his theory of color and light in Opticks.
1704/--/-- 44 - John Campbell founds the Boston News-Letter, the first successful American newspaper.
1704/--/-- 44 - The Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy defeat the French at Blenheim.
1704/--/-- 44 - The English capture Gibraltar from Spain.
1704/--/-- 44 - The Indians and the French massacre British settlers in Deerfield, Mass.
1705/--/-- 45 - Edmund Halley predicts that the comet of 1682 will return in 1758.
1705/--/-- 45 - Nicolas Hawksmoor designs Blenheim Palace for the Duke of Marlborough.
1705/--/-- 45 - The English Navy occupies Barcelona.
1706/--/-- 46 - Eugene of Savoy defeats the French at Turin and drives them from Italy.
1706/--/-- 46 - George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer is produced.
1706/--/-- 46 - The Duke of Marlborough conquers the Spanish Netherlands.
1707/--/-- 47 - Emperor Aurangzeb dies; the Mogul empire begins to decline in India.
1707/--/-- 47 - Great Britain is formed by the Act of Union between England and Scotland.
1707/--/-- 47 - John V succeeds Peter II as king of Portugal.
1707/--/-- 47 - Mount Fuji erupts in Japan; an earthquake kills 200,000 in Tokyo.
1707/--/-- 47 - The British attack the French colony of Acadia (Nova Scotia).
1707/--/-- 47 - The Duke of Berwick routs the allied forces at Almanza in Spain.
1707/03/-- 47 - Act of Union combines England and Scotland as Kingdom of Great Britain.
1708/--/-- 48 - French forces under Vendome are defeated by Marlborough at Oudenarde.
1708/--/-- 48 - Sikh leader Guru Gobind Singh is assassinated; the Moguls persecute the Sikhs.
1708/--/-- 48 - The British capture the island of Minorca from Spain.
1709/--/-- 49 - Abraham Darby builds a blast furnace using coke for casting iron.
1709/--/-- 49 - Charles XII of Sweden flees to the Ottoman Empire.
1709/--/-- 49 - Italian musician Bartolommeo Cristofori invents the piano.
1709/--/-- 49 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Poltava.
1709/--/-- 49 - Steele and Addison's periodical The Tatler is published in London.
1709/--/-- 49 - The Duke of Marlborough defeats the French at the Battle of Malplaquet.
1709/--/-- 49 - The first Copyright Act becomes law in Britain.
1710/--/-- 50 - Augustus II regains the Polish throne.
1710/--/-- 50 - Charles XII persuades the Turks to attack Russia.
1710/--/-- 50 - French forces under Vendome defeat the allies at Villaviciosa in Spain.
1710/--/-- 50 - George Berkeley publishes a Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.
1710/--/-- 50 - The British seize Acadia (Nova Scotia) from the French.
1710/--/-- 50 - The Meissen porcelain factory is founded near Dresden in Germany.
1711/--/-- 51 - Joseph I dies; Charles VI is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1711/--/-- 51 - Publication of The Tatler ceases; Steele and Addison introduce The Spectator.
1711/--/-- 51 - The French found the first permanent settlement in Alabama at Mobile.
1711/--/-- 51 - The Tuscarora War begins in North Carolina when Indians massacre 130 colonists.
1711/--/-- 51 - The building of the baroque Zwinger complex begins in Dresden, Germany.
1712/--/-- 52 - Carolina is divided into north and south colonies.
1712/--/-- 52 - English poet Alexander Pope publishes The Rape of the Lock.
1712/--/-- 52 - The New England whaling industry expands rapidly with the hunting of sperm whales.
1713/--/-- 53 - Emperor Charles VI issues the Pragmatic Sanction, allowing for a female heir.
1713/--/-- 53 - France cedes Acadia (Nova Scotia) and Newfoundland to Britain.
1713/--/-- 53 - Frederick William I succeeds Frederick I as king of Prussia.
1713/--/-- 53 - Sicily is ceded to the House of Savoy; Victor Amadeus II is crowned as king.
1713/--/-- 53 - Spain cedes Gibraltar and Minorca to Britain.
1713/--/-- 53 - The Asiento Treaty establishes British rights to the African slave trade.
1713/--/-- 53 - The Peace of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession.
1714/--/-- 54 - German composer George Frideric Handel makes London his permanent home.
1714/--/-- 54 - Grinling Gibbons is appointed as master carver in wood to George I.
1714/--/-- 54 - Queen Anne of England dies; she is succeeded by George I, Elector of Hanover.
1714/10/20 54 - George I crowned King of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey by Thomas Tenison, A
1715/--/-- 55 - A Jacobite uprising supports James Edward as the Old Pretender to the British throne.
1715/--/-- 55 - French King Louis XIV dies; he is succeeded by his five-year-old great-grandson Louis XV.
1715/--/-- 55 - French author Alain Rene Lesage publishes the Adventures of Gil Blas.
1715/--/-- 55 - Japan's leading playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon writes The Battles of Coxinga.
1715/--/-- 55 - Phillipe II Duc d'Orleans becomes regent of France.
1715/--/-- 55 - The Yamasee Indians rebel against British settlers in South Carolina.
1716/--/-- 56 *** Bayless, Daniel [Great Nephew] - Born to Bayless, Daniel and Ludlum, Sarah
1716/--/-- 56 - Emperor Charles VI declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1717/--/-- 57 - Eugene of Savoy captures Belgrade from the Turks.
1717/--/-- 57 - French artist Antoine Watteau paints the Pilgrimage to Cythera.
1717/--/-- 57 - John Law forms the Mississippi Company in France.
1717/--/-- 57 - Spain seizes Sardinia and Sicily.
1717/--/-- 57 - The first freemason lodge is formed in London.
1718/--/-- 58 - Charles XII of Sweden is killed during a campaign against Norway.
1718/--/-- 58 - Spain establishes the Viceroyalty of New Granada in South America.
1718/--/-- 58 - Sultan Ahmed III concludes the Treaty of Passarowitz with the Holy Roman Empire.
1718/--/-- 58 - The English pirate Blackbeard is killed by the Virginia militia.
1718/--/-- 58 - The French found New Orleans in Louisiana.
1718/--/-- 58 - The Quadruple Alliance of Austria, Britain, France and the Dutch declare war on Spain.
1718/--/-- 58 - Voltaire writes the tragedy of Oedipe while imprisoned in the Bastille.
1719/--/-- 59 *** Bayless, John [Brother] - Died
1719/--/-- 59 - English writer Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe.
1719/--/-- 59 - James Figg becomes the first heavyweight boxing champion of England.
1719/--/-- 59 - Liechtenstein becomes an independent principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
1719/--/-- 59 - Teams from London and Kent play one of the first cricket matches.
1720/--/-- 60 - The Mississippi Scheme speculation craze collapses in France.
1720/--/-- 60 - The Quadruple Alliance defeats Spain; Spain renounces all claims to Sicily and Sardinia.
1720/--/-- 60 - The South Sea Bubble speculation craze collapses in England.
1720/--/-- 60 - Tibet becomes a protectorate of China.
1720/--/-- 60 - Victor Amadeus II surrenders Sicily to Austria in exchange for Sardinia.
1721/--/-- 61 - German composer Johann Sebastian Bach writes the Brandenburg Concertos.
1721/--/-- 61 - Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti writes his opera Griselda.
1721/--/-- 61 - Prime minister Robert Walpole restores public confidence in Britain's finances.
1721/--/-- 61 - The French settle on the island of Mauritius.
1721/--/-- 61 - The Great Northern War ends; Sweden loses most of her overseas possessions.
1722/--/-- 62 - Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Samoa and Easter Island.
1722/--/-- 62 - English author Daniel Defoe publishes Moll Flanders.
1722/--/-- 62 - The Afghans invade Persia (Iran) and overthrow the Safavid rulers.
1724/--/-- 64 - The British build Fort Dummer, the first permanent European settlement in Vermont.
1724/--/-- 64 - The Quakers make a statement opposing slavery.
1725/--/-- 65 - Danish explorer Vitus Bering begins his voyage in search of a Northeast Passage.
1725/--/-- 65 - Francisco Romero establishes the current style of Spanish bullfighting.
1725/--/-- 65 - Peter the Great dies; his wife Catherine I succeeds him as Empress of Russia.
1726/--/-- 66 - Alexander Pope completes his translation of Homer's Odyssey.
1726/--/-- 66 - Cardinal Andre Fleury becomes chief advisor to Louis XV.
1726/--/-- 66 - English satirist Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels.
1726/--/-- 66 - The Spanish found Montevideo in Uruguay.
1727/--/-- 67 - Catherine I dies; Peter II succeeds her as Emperor of Russia.
1727/--/-- 67 - George II succeeds his father George I as king of Great Britain and Ireland.
1727/--/-- 67 - The Spanish lay siege to Gibraltar.
1727/10/11 67 - George II crowned King of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey by William Wake, Ar
1728/--/-- 68 - Chambers's Cyclopedia; or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences is issued.
1728/--/-- 68 - Danish navigator Vitus Bering explores Bering Strait.
1728/--/-- 68 - English poet and playwright John Gay writes The Beggar's Opera.
1728/--/-- 68 - James Gibbs' Book of Architecture influences Colonial American designs.
1728/--/-- 68 - John Harrison begins his development of an accurate chronometer.
1729/--/-- 69 - Corsica rebels against Genoese rule.
1729/--/-- 69 - Denmark assumes control of Greenland.
1729/--/-- 69 - English actress Kitty Clive establishes her reputation at the Drury Lane Theatre.
1729/--/-- 69 - The city of Baltimore is founded in Maryland.
1729/--/-- 69 - The city of Karachi is founded in India (now in Pakistan).
1730/--/-- 70 - Canaletto paints the Basin of San Marco, one of his many views of Venice.
1730/--/-- 70 - Construction of the Province-hall (now Independence Hall) begins in Philadelphia.
1730/--/-- 70 - Peter II dies; he is succeeded by Anna as Empress of Russia.
1731/--/-- 71 - French novelist Abbe Prevost writes Manon Lescaut.
1731/--/-- 71 - John Hadley invents the quadrant for navigating at sea.
1731/--/-- 71 - The Gentleman's Magazine, the first magazine, is published in London.
1732/--/-- 72 - Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanack in Philadelphia.
1732/--/-- 72 - Covent Garden Opera House opens in London.
1732/--/-- 72 - Nadir Shah expels the Afghans from Persia (Iran) and reinstates Safavid rule.
1732/--/-- 72 - Nicola Salvi designs the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
1732/--/-- 72 - William Hogarth completes his series of engravings The Harlot's Progress.
1733/--/-- 73 - James Oglethorpe founds the colony of Georgia and the city of Savannah.
1733/--/-- 73 - John Kay invents the flying shuttle to increase the speed of weaving machines.
1733/--/-- 73 - Nadir Shah defeats the Turks and occupies Bagdhad.
1733/--/-- 73 - Stanislaw I is elected king of Poland with the support of Louis XV of France.
1733/--/-- 73 - The War of Polish Succession begins.
1734/--/-- 74 - Stanislaw I is deposed; Augustus III is installed as king of Poland.
1735/--/-- 75 - Antonio de Ulloa discovers the element platinum in South America.
1735/--/-- 75 - George Hadley proposes the Hadley cell, a circulation system for the atmosphere.
1736/--/-- 76 - Ch'ien-lung becomes emperor of China.
1736/--/-- 76 - French artist Maurice Quentin de La Tour paints his Portrait of Voltaire.
1736/--/-- 76 - Nadir assumes the title of Shah of Persia and founds the Afshar dynasty.
1736/--/-- 76 - Parliament passes the Gin Act to discourage public drunkenness in England.
1736/--/-- 76 - Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler begins writing his Mechanica.
1737/--/-- 77 - William Mayo founds the city of Richmond, Virginia.
1738/--/-- 78 - A porcelain factory is established in France at Vincennes; it moves later to Sevres.
1738/--/-- 78 - Bernoulli publishes Hydrodynamica, stating his law of hydrodynamics.
1738/--/-- 78 - George Whitefield precipitates the Great Awakening religious revival in America.
1738/--/-- 78 - The Treaty of Vienna concludes the War of the Polish Succession; Stanislaw I abdicates.
1738/--/-- 78 - The excavation of Herculaneum begins in Italy.
1739/--/-- 79 - John Wesley founds the Methodist religious movement.
1739/--/-- 79 - Mutilation of an English sea captain by the Spanish leads to the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1739/--/-- 79 - The British under Admiral Vernon raid Spanish settlements in the West Indies.
1739/--/-- 79 - The Persians under Nadir Shah defeat the Mogul army and destroy Delhi.
1740/--/-- 80 - Anna Empress of Russia dies; she is succeeded by Elizabeth in 1741.
1740/--/-- 80 - Charles VI's daughter Maria Theresa succeeds to the Austrian Habsburg empire.
1740/--/-- 80 - English novelist Samuel Richardson writes Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded.
1740/--/-- 80 - Frederick II (Frederick the Great) assumes the Prussian throne.
1740/--/-- 80 - Frederick II of Prussia invades the Habsburg province of Silesia.
1740/--/-- 80 - Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI dies; the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
1740/--/-- 80 - Scottish philosopher David Hume writes his Treatise of Human Nature.
1740/--/-- 80 - The British under James Oglethorpe attack Spanish possessions in Florida.
1741/--/-- 81 - George Frideric Handel composes the Messiah.
1741/--/-- 81 - Prussia forms an anti-Habsburg coalition with Bavaria, Spain and France.
1742/--/-- 82 - A Spanish invasion of Georgia is defeated by British forces under James Oglethorpe.
1742/--/-- 82 - Maria Theresa makes peace with Frederick II; Silesia is ceded to Prussia.
1742/--/-- 82 - Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius invents the Celsius scale for temperature.
1742/--/-- 82 - The Anti-Habsburg coalition elects Charles VII as Holy Roman Emperor.
1742/--/-- 82 - The cast iron Franklin stove is invented by Benjamin Franklin.
1743/--/-- 83 - An English porcelain factory is established at Chelsea in London.
1743/--/-- 83 - The first permanent bullring is built in Madrid.
1744/--/-- 84 - King George's War begins in North America between Britain and France.
1744/--/-- 84 - Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab founds the Wahhabi Muslim sect about this time.
1745/--/-- 85 - Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) leads a second Jacobite rebellion.
1745/--/-- 85 - Giovanni Piranesi begins his etchings of Carceri d'Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons).
1745/--/-- 85 - Louis XV installs the Marquise de Pompadour as his official mistress.
1745/--/-- 85 - Maria Theresa's husband Francis succeeds Charles VII as Holy Roman Emperor.
1745/--/-- 85 - The British under Pepperrell capture the French fortress of Louisburg in Canada.
1745/--/-- 85 - The French under the Comte de Saxe defeat Austrian, English and Dutch forces at Fontenoy.
1745/--/-- 85 - The Treaty of Dresden confirms Prussian control of Silesia.
1746/--/-- 86 - Britain and France struggle for the domination of India; France seizes Madras.
1746/--/-- 86 - Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) is defeated at Culloden.
1746/--/-- 86 - English actor David Garrick becomes the manager of the Drury Lane Theatre.
1746/--/-- 86 - Ferdinand VI succeeds Philip V as king of Spain.
1746/--/-- 86 - Princeton University is founded in New Jersey.
1747/--/-- 87 - Nadir Shah of Persia (Iran) is assassinated.
1747/--/-- 87 - The Ohio Company is formed to promote settlement west of the Appalachians.
1747/--/-- 87 - The Pathans defeat the Persians; Ahmad Shah Sadozai founds a new dynasty.
1748/--/-- 88 - English artist Thomas Gainsborough paints Robert Andrews and Mary, His Wife.
1748/--/-- 88 - French political philosopher Montesquieu writes The Spirit of the Laws.
1748/--/-- 88 - The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
1749/--/-- 89 - English novelist Henry Fielding writes Tom Jones.
1749/--/-- 89 - Italian dramatist Carlo Goldoni writes La Putta honorata (The Respectable Girl).
1749/--/-- 89 - The British found Halifax in Nova Scotia as a military base.
1750/--/-- 90 - American frontiersman Christopher Gist explores the Ohio River region.
1750/--/-- 90 - Baal Shem Tov founds the Jewish sect of Hasidism about this time.
1750/--/-- 90 - Poona becomes the capital of the Maratha confederacy in India.
1750/--/-- 90 - The Afshars are replaced by the Zand dynasty in Persia (Iran); Shiraz becomes the capital.
1750/--/-- 90 - The Conestoga wagon develops in Pennsylvania about this time.
1750/--/-- 90 - The neoclassical movement in art develops in Europe about this time.
1750/--/-- 90 - The waltz becomes a popular dance in Europe about this time.
1751/--/-- 91 - English novelist Tobias Smollett writes The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker.
1751/--/-- 91 - English soldier Robert Clive captures Arcot in India.
1751/--/-- 91 - Jean Etienne Guettard produces the first geological maps of France.
1751/--/-- 91 - The Worcester Royal Porcelain Company is founded in England.
1751/--/-- 91 - The first volume of Diderot's Encyclopedie is published.
1752/--/-- 92 *** Bayless, Daniel [Nephew] - Died Hunterdon (?) Co, NY Hunterdon (?) Co, NY
1752/--/-- 92 - Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning conductor.
1752/--/-- 92 - French artist Francois Boucher paints Mademoiselle O'Murphy.
1752/--/-- 92 - Italian artist Tiepolo paints the Marriage of Frederick Barbarossa.
1753/--/-- 93 - Swedish biologist Carolus Linnaeus publishes his system of plant classification.
1753/--/-- 93 - The British Museum is founded in London.
1754/--/-- 94 - French attacks against the English in Ohio lead to the last French and Indian War.
1754/--/-- 94 - Italian architect Rastrelli designs the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad).
1754/--/-- 94 - The Royal and Ancient Golf Club is founded at Saint Andrews in Scotland.
1754/--/-- 94 - Thomas Chippendale publishes The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Directory.
1755/--/-- 95 - Adventurer and lover Casanova is arrested in Venice for witchcraft.
1755/--/-- 95 - Pasquale Paoli founds an independent state in Corsica.
1755/--/-- 95 - Samuel Johnson publishes his Dictionary of the English Language.
1755/--/-- 95 - The British under Braddock are defeated by the French at Fort Duquesne.
1755/--/-- 95 - The French population of Acadia (Nova Scotia) is deported by the British.
1755/--/-- 95 - The Lisbon earthquake kills 50,000.
1756/--/-- 96 - 123 British soldiers are alleged to have died in the Black Hole of Calcutta in Bengal, India.
1756/--/-- 96 - French general Montcalm captures Fort Oswego and dominates the Great Lakes.
1756/--/-- 96 - The Seven Years' War begins with a Prussian attack on Austria.
1756/--/-- 96 - William Pitt (the Elder) becomes prime minister of Britain.
1757/--/-- 97 - Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Franco-Austrian army at Rossbach.
1757/--/-- 97 - Robert Clive defeats the nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey in India.
1758/--/-- 98 - Americans and British regulars under General Forbes capture Fort Duquesne.
1758/--/-- 98 - The Burmese overthrow the Mons; Rangoon becomes the new capital of Burma.
1758/--/-- 98 - The French under Montcalm defeat the British at Fort Ticonderoga.
1759/--/-- 99 - French poet and dramatist Voltaire publishes his philosophical novel Candide.
1759/--/-- 99 - Josiah Wedgwood establishes his first pottery works.
1759/--/-- 99 - The Botanical Gardens are founded at Kew in London.
1759/--/-- 99 - The British defeat the French at Niagara; Amherst captures Fort Ticonderoga.
1759/--/-- 99 - The British under Wolfe defeat Montcalm at Quebec; Wolfe dies from his wounds.
1759/--/-- 99 - The Russians defeat Frederick II at Kunersdorf.
1760/--/-- 100 - English architect Robert Adam begins the design of Syon House.
1760/--/-- 100 - English novelist Laurence Sterne publishes the first volumes of Tristram Shandy.
1760/--/-- 100 - George II dies; he is succeeded by his grandson George III as king of England.
1760/--/-- 100 - The British under Amherst capture Montreal, ending French resistance in North America.
1760/--/-- 100 - The Russians invade Prussia and burn Berlin.
1761/--/-- 101 - Franz Josef Haydn becomes court composer to Prince Esterhazy.
1761/09/02 101 - George III crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Tho
1762/--/-- 102 - American Indian religious leader, the Delaware Prophet, is active in the Ohio Valley.
1762/--/-- 102 - Britain seizes Cuba and the Philippines from Spain.
1762/--/-- 102 - British animal painter George Stubbs completes the Horse Attacked by a Lion.
1762/--/-- 102 - Catherine II (Catherine the Great) succeeds her husband as empress of Russia.
1762/--/-- 102 - France cedes Louisiana to Spain to prevent British control of the region.
1762/--/-- 102 - French philosopher Rousseau publishes The Social Contract and Emile.
1762/--/-- 102 - Peter III succeeds Elizabeth as emperor of Russia, but is deposed and murdered.
1762/--/-- 102 - The Russians end their alliance with Austria against Prussia.
1762/--/-- 102 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performs at the Imperial court in Vienna at age 6.
1763/--/-- 103 - Augustus III dies; he is succeeded (1764) by Stanislaw II, the last king of Poland.
1763/--/-- 103 - Britain returns Cuba and the Philippines to Spain in exchange for Florida.
1763/--/-- 103 - France cedes Canada and all territories east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
1763/--/-- 103 - France recognizes British dominance in India.
1763/--/-- 103 - French forces withdraw from Germany; Prussia retains Silesia.
1763/--/-- 103 - James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson for the first time.
1763/--/-- 103 - The Ottawa chief Pontiac leads an uprising against the British.
1763/--/-- 103 - The Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War and the French and Indian Wars.
1763/--/-- 103 - The Wahhabi Saudis begin to establish control over Arabia.
1764/--/-- 104 - German historian Johann Winckelmann publishes his History of the Art of Antiquity.
1764/--/-- 104 - Thomas Chatterton forges the Rowley poems at the age of 12.
1765/--/-- 105 - Francis I dies; he is succeeded by Joseph II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1765/--/-- 105 - French artist Francois Boucher is appointed court painter to Louis XV.
1765/--/-- 105 - George Grenville's Stamp Act imposes a tax on all publications in the American colonies.
1765/--/-- 105 - Horace Walpole publishes his Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto.
1765/--/-- 105 - Lancelot Capability Brown designs the gardens at Blenheim Palace.
1765/--/-- 105 - Robert Clive is appointed governor of Bengal in India.
1765/--/-- 105 - Samuel Adams helps to found the Sons of Liberty to oppose the Stamp Act.
1765/--/-- 105 - Sir William Blackstone begins his Commentaries on the Laws of England.
1766/--/-- 106 - Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith publishes The Vicar of Wakefield.
1766/--/-- 106 - English chemist Henry Cavendish isolates hydrogen gas for the first time.
1766/--/-- 106 - French artist Jean Honore Fragonard paints The Swing.
1766/--/-- 106 - German dramatist and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing publishes Laocoon.
1766/--/-- 106 - The Declaratory Act imposes Parliament's right to make laws in the colonies.
1766/--/-- 106 - The Nautical Almanac provides the first practical method for determining longitude.
1766/--/-- 106 - The Stamp Act is repealed after strong opposition from American colonists.
1767/--/-- 107 - German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck writes his opera Alceste.
1767/--/-- 107 - German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn publishes Phaedon.
1767/--/-- 107 - The Burmese destroy the Siam capital of Ayutthaya; the Bangkok Period begins.
1767/--/-- 107 - The Mason-Dixon line establishes the Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary.
1767/--/-- 107 - The Townshend Acts impose a tax on imports to North America.
1768/--/-- 108 - Genoa sells its rights in Corsica to France.
1768/--/-- 108 - Joshua Reynolds becomes the first president of the Royal Academy in London.
1768/--/-- 108 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville claims the Pacific island of Tahiti for France.
1768/--/-- 108 - The Russo-Turkish War is renewed.
1768/--/-- 108 - The first weekly numbers of the Encyclopaedia Britannica are issued.
1769/--/-- 109 - American pioneer Daniel Boone explores a route through the Cumberland Gap.
1769/--/-- 109 - French forces in Corsica defeat Pasquale Paoli; Corsica becomes a province of France.
1769/--/-- 109 - James Watt patents a condenser to improve the performance of steam engines.
1769/--/-- 109 - Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac is assassinated by a Peoria Indian.
1769/--/-- 109 - Richard Arkwright invents a spinning frame to mechanize cotton weaving.
1769/--/-- 109 - The Comtesse du Barry becomes the official mistress to Louis XV.
1769/--/-- 109 - The Gurkhas conquer Nepal.
1770/--/-- 110 - A brawl between British troops and colonists leads to the Boston Massacre.
1770/--/-- 110 - British explorer James Bruce discovers the source of the Blue Nile.
1770/--/-- 110 - English artist Thomas Gainsborough paints The Blue Boy.
1770/--/-- 110 - English navigator James Cook explores New Zealand and the east coast of Australia.
1770/--/-- 110 - Lord North becomes prime minister of Britain.
1770/--/-- 110 - Louis, the future king of France, marries Marie Antoinette.
1770/--/-- 110 - The British Parliament repeals the Townshend Acts.
1770/--/-- 110 - Thomas Jefferson begins building Monticello, his house in Virginia.
1771/--/-- 111 - Governor Tyron defeats the Regulators (dissident farmers) in North Carolina.
1771/--/-- 111 - Gustav III succeeds his father as king of Sweden.
1772/--/-- 112 - American artist Benjamin West paints The Death of Wolfe.
1772/--/-- 112 - English artist Joshua Reynolds paints a Portrait of Samuel Johnson.
1772/--/-- 112 - Poland is partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria.
1773/--/-- 113 - American colonists throw British tea into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party.
1773/--/-- 113 - Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith writes the play She Stoops to Conquer.
1773/--/-- 113 - Calcutta is established as the capital of British India.
1773/--/-- 113 - Don Cossack Yemelian Pugachev leads the Peasant's Revolt in Russia.
1773/--/-- 113 - Pope Clement XIV persecutes the Jesuits.
1774/--/-- 114 - Britain passes the Intolerable Acts and closes the port of Boston.
1774/--/-- 114 - British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen.
1774/--/-- 114 - Edmund Burke's speech On American Taxation defends the colony's rights.
1774/--/-- 114 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes The Sorrows of Young Werther.
1774/--/-- 114 - Louis XV dies; he is succeeded by his grandson Louis XVI as king of France.
1774/--/-- 114 - Rhode Island becomes the first state to abolish slavery.
1774/--/-- 114 - The Quebec Act grants religious liberty to Roman Catholics in Canada.
1774/--/-- 114 - The Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji ends the Russo-Turkish War.
1774/--/-- 114 - The first Continental Congress meets and condemns Britain's Intolerable Acts.
1774/--/-- 114 - Warren Hastings is appointed as the first Governor-General of British India.
1775/--/-- 115 - American patriot Patrick Henry states "Give me liberty, or give me death."
1775/--/-- 115 - Americans under Montgomery occupy Montreal, but fail to capture Quebec.
1775/--/-- 115 - British troops and colonial militia clash at Lexington, starting the American Revolution.
1775/--/-- 115 - British troops suffer heavy losses at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
1775/--/-- 115 - French dramatist Caron de Beaumarchais writes the Barber of Seville.
1775/--/-- 115 - Paul Revere rides to Lexington to warn of approaching British troops.
1775/--/-- 115 - Revolutionary War Begins
1775/--/-- 115 - The Continental Congress chooses George Washington to head the Continental Army.
1776/--/-- 116 - American General Charles Lee is captured by the British.
1776/--/-- 116 - Ann Lee establishes a Shaker community at Wartervliet in New York.
1776/--/-- 116 - British forces are evacuated from Boston.
1776/--/-- 116 - British forces under Sir Henry Clinton bombard Charleston harbor.
1776/--/-- 116 - Charles Burney publishes the first volume of A General History of Music.
1776/--/-- 116 - David Bushnell's submarine the Turtle makes an abortive attack on British ships.
1776/--/-- 116 - Economist Adam Smith publishes the Wealth of Nations.
1776/--/-- 116 - Edward Gibbon publishes the first volume of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1776/--/-- 116 - Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin organizes the Russian Black Sea fleet.
1776/--/-- 116 - Howe defeats Washington at White Plains; Washington retreats across the Delaware.
1776/--/-- 116 - Nathan Hale is executed by the British as a spy.
1776/--/-- 116 - Swiss banker Jacques Necker is appointed director of the treasury by Louis XVI.
1776/--/-- 116 - The British under Howe defeat Washington on Long Island and occupy New York.
1776/--/-- 116 - The Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence.
1776/--/-- 116 - The Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) literary movement begins in Germany.
1776/--/-- 116 - Thomas Paine publishes his Revolutionary War pamphlet Common Sense.
1776/--/-- 116 - Washington defeats British forces at Trenton and Princeton (1777).
1777/--/-- 117 - Burgoyne capitulates to Horatio Gates' American forces at Saratoga.
1777/--/-- 117 - Christianity is introduced into Korea.
1777/--/-- 117 - French chemist Lavoisier proves that air is composed of oxygen and nitrogen.
1777/--/-- 117 - General Burgoyne captures Ticonderoga and defeats the Americans in Pennsylvania.
1777/--/-- 117 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy The School for Scandal is produced.
1777/--/-- 117 - The British under Howe capture Philadelphia, forcing Congress to flee.
1777/--/-- 117 - The British under Howe defeat Washington's Continental Army at Brandywine Creek.
1777/--/-- 117 - The Continental Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes as the American flag.
1777/--/-- 117 - The Marquis de Lafayette offers his services to the Continental Congress.
1777/--/-- 117 - Washington's Continental Army spends a hard winter at Valley Forge.
1778/--/-- 118 - English novelist Fanny Burney writes Evelina.
1778/--/-- 118 - France enters the American War of Independence in support of the colonies.
1778/--/-- 118 - Franz Anton Mesmer opens a Paris practice to treat patients using magnetism.
1778/--/-- 118 - John Singleton Copley paints Watson and the Shark.
1778/--/-- 118 - La Scala opera house opens in Milan, Italy.
1778/--/-- 118 - Portugal transfers its rights in Equatorial Guinea to Spain.
1778/--/-- 118 - Washington clashes with British forces under Clinton at Monmouth, N.J.
1779/--/-- 119 - American forces under Sullivan campaign against the Iroquois on the New York border.
1779/--/-- 119 - An American squadron led by John Paul Jones attacks British shipping.
1779/--/-- 119 - British explorer James Cook is killed by natives on Hawaii.
1779/--/-- 119 - George Rogers Clark recaptures Vincennes from the British.
1779/--/-- 119 - Samuel Crompton develops his spinning mule for England's cotton industry.
1779/--/-- 119 - Samuel Johnson begins writing The Lives of the Poets
1779/--/-- 119 - Spain declares war on Britain and lays siege to Gibraltar.
1779/--/-- 119 - War breaks out between Dutch settlers and the Xhosas in South Africa.
1780/--/-- 120 - Americans under Horatio Gates are defeated by Cornwallis at Camden, S.C.
1780/--/-- 120 - Andre's capture exposes Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
1780/--/-- 120 - English spy John Andre is caught and executed by the Americans.
1780/--/-- 120 - Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter lead guerrilla forces against the British.
1780/--/-- 120 - Luigi Galvani begins experiments on the effect of electricity on nerves and muscles.
1780/--/-- 120 - Maria Theresa dies; Joseph II inherits the crown of Bohemia and Hungary.
1780/--/-- 120 - Peruvian Indians under Tupac Amaru revolt against Spainish rule.
1780/--/-- 120 - The British under Clinton occupy Charleston, S.C. and capture the garrison.
1780/--/-- 120 - The Derby horse race is established in England.
1780/--/-- 120 - The Gordon Riots begin in London against Catholic emancipation.
1780/--/-- 120 - Venetian artist Francesco Guardi paints the Gondola on the Lagoon.
In 1660 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
In 1660 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
By 1780 Communications was by:
Post Office
in addition.
In 1660 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1660 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1660 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1660 War Making was by:
Bow & Arrow
Swords & body armor
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 1660 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:55:45