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1756-1763
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Seven Years War (British-French rivalry in North America)
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1762
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Britain declares war on Spain
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1763
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Peace of Paris ends Seven Years War
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1763
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Proclamation Line in North America established
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1768-1779
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Captain Cook (British navigator) makes scientific tours of eastern
Austria, New Caledmia, Tonga, Sandwich Islands
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1767
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Spinning Jenny invented by James Hargreaves (British)
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1769
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Water Frame (water-powered spinning machine) invented by Richard
Arkwright (British)
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1771
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Karl Scheele (Swedish) discovers oxygen
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1775
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James Watt (Scottish) invents steam engine
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1782
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Rotary Steam Engine invented by James Watt (Scottish)
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1783
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Piltre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes (French) make the first ascent in
a hot air balloon built by the Montgolfier brothers
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1787
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Famine and Rice riots in Edo (Tokyo), Japan
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1788
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Convicts transported from Britain to Sydney (first permanent British
settlement in Austria
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1791-1792
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War between China and Tibet
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1791
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Slave revolt in Haiti against French, led by Toussaint L'Ouverture
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1798
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Spanish found Los Angeles
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1800
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Alessandro Volta (Italian) invents the battery
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1803 |
USA buys Louisiana
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1804
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Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France
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1806-1812
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War between Russia and Turkey
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1807
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Slave trade abolished within the British Empire
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1808
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Import of slaves into USA
prohibited
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1811
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War between Russia and Persia
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1812
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War between USA and Britain
Napoleon attacks Russia (click for current event
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1820s
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Revolutions in Spain and Portugal
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1821-1829
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Greek war of Independence against Turkey
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1822
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First fixed photographic image is produced by French inventor J-N Niepde
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1825 |
First passenger steam railway opens in England from Stockton to
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