Eighteenth-century encyclopedia topics

Events

1712-21: Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1701-1714: War of the Spanish Succession was a conflict which involved most of Europe.
1702-1715: Camisard Rebellion in France.
1703: Saint Petersburg founded by Peter the Great. Russian capital until 1918.
1703-1711: The Rákóczi Uprising against the Habsburg Monarchy.
1707: Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments, thus establishing The Kingdom of Great Britain.
1707: After Aurangzeb's death, the Mughal Empire enters a long decline and the Maratha Empire slowly replaces it.
1708-1709: Famine killed one-third of East Prussia's population.
1708: The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies and English Company Trading to the East Indies merged to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies.

1714 Accession of George I, Elector of Hanover, to the throne of Great Britain.
1715: First Jacobite Rebellion breaks out
1715: Louis XIV died leaving France deep in debt.
1716: Establishment of the Sikh Confederacy along the India Pakistan border.
1718: City of New Orleans founded by the French in North America
1718: Blackbeard is killed by Robert Maynard in a North Carolina inlet on the inner side of Ocracoke Island

1720: The South Sea Bubble
1720-1721: The Great Plague of Marseille
1721: Robert Walpole became the first Prime Minister of Great Britain (de facto).
1721: Treaty of Nystad signed, ending the Great Northern War.
1722-23: Russo-Persian War
1722: Afghans conquered Iran, ending the Safavid dynasty.
1722: Kangxi Emperor of China died.
1722: Bartholomew Roberts is killed in a sea battle off the African coast.
1723: Slavery abolished in Russia. Peter the Great converted the household slaves into house serfs.
1723-1730: The "Great Disaster" - an invasion of Kazakh territories by the Dzungars.
1725: The Fulani nomads took complete control of Fuuta Jallon and set up the first of many Fulani jihad states to come.
1726: The enormous Chinese encyclopedia Gujin Tushu Jicheng of over 100 million written Chinese characters in over 800,000 pages is printed in 60 different copies using copper-based Chinese movable type printing.

1732-1734: Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.
1733-38: War of the Polish Succession.
1735-39: Russo-Turkish War.
1735-99: The Qianlong Emperor of China oversaw a huge expansion in territory.
1736: Nadir Shah assumed title of Shah of Persia and founded the Afsharid dynasty. Ruled until his death in 1747.
1736: Qing Dynasty Chinese court painters recreate Zhang Zeduan's classic panoramic painting, Along the River During Qingming Festival.
1738-1756: Famine across the Sahel, half the population of Timbuktu died.
1739: Nadir Shah defeated the Mughals and sacked Delhi.

1750: Peak of the Little Ice Age
1754: Treaty of Pondicherry ends Second Carnatic War and recognizes Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah as Nawab of the Carnatic.
1754–1763, The French and Indian War, Fought in the U.S. and Canada mostly between the French and French allies and the English and English allies. The North American chapter of the Seven Years' War.
1755: The Lisbon earthquake
1756-63: Seven Years' War fought among European powers in various theaters around the world.
1756-1763: The Third Carnatic War fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India.
1757: Battle of Plassey signaled the beginning of formal British rule in India after years of commercial activity under the auspices of the East India Company.