1700-1759

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1600s 1700-1759 1760s

• 1700: Daniel Bernoulli is born.
• May 13, 1700: Ventura Rossair dies in Marshalsea Prison.
• November 1702: English Governor of South Carolina James Moore leads disastrous invasion of Spanish Florida. Forced to destroy his own 8 ships bottled up in San Augustine harbor, he has to retreat overland 40 miles to be picked up by rescuing ships. A precocious neo-conservative he later blames everyone else for his bad decisions.
• July 12, 1700: James Gilliam, Paul Lorraine and 8 others hanged as pirates at Execution Dock in Wapping.
• 1701: English Act of Succession. House of Hanover to get the Crown(1714), Catholics barred from the throne.
• May 23, 1701: Scotsman and adopted American Captain Kidd hanged as a pirate at Execution Dock in Wapping.
• 1703: Methuen Treaty between England & Portugal creates trade imbalance between two countries which can only be made up by flow of newly discovered gold from Portuguese Brazil. Britain goes on gold standard in 1717, stays on it until 1931.
• 1704: British capture Gibraltar from Spain. They're still there and the Spanish are still angry. But then the Spanish still hold Ceuta and Melilla in Morocco and the Moroccans are still angry.
• 1704: Maty Price is acquitted of the charge of bestiality with a dog.
• January 17, 1706: Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston.
• 1707: Act of Union between England & Scotland. Scottish Parliament abolished. England bails out Scottish finances in return for Scottish sovereignty.
• 1709: Briton John Smith is executed by hanging, but survives 2 hours at the end of the rope.
• 1711: Roger Joseph Boscovitch is born.
• 1711-1712: England and France fight Queen Anne's War.
• 1712: Jean-Jacques Rousseau is born.
• 1713: Russian Empire establishes protectorate over the Kazakhs.
• 1713: Treaty of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession(1702). Spanish-ruled territories in Europe transferred to Austria, a Bourbon is allowed to succeed to Spanish throne but union of French and Spanish Crowns is forbidden, British gain limited trading privileges in Spain's American colonies.
• 1714: George I becomes British King. The Hanoverian (German) has difficulty with English language, and British Parliament gains even more real power as a result.
• 1715: French King Louis XIV dies following 72 year reign after allegedly saying "I have loved war too much". French mainly agree.
• 1715: Yamasee War in Carolina.
• 1716: Jicarilla Apache forced into mountains of New Mexico by repeated Comanche and Ute raids. Spanish attack Comanche/Ute Village north of Santa Fe; prisoners were taken and sold as slaves.
• 1717: British East India Company obtains lucrative trading privileges from India's Moghul Emperor.
• 1717: Small faction of Greek Orthodox become Greek Catholics or Melkites.
• 1718: French establish city of New Orleans.
• 1720: Financial Bubbles: Mississippi (France) and Britain (South Sea). The term millionaire is invented in France during the runup in share prices of John Law's Mississippi Company.
• 1720: Puritans of Massachusetts Bay offer a premium of 100 British pounds for every scalp taken from a Native American.
• April 5, 1722: Dutch explorer Jacon Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
• 1721: Largely because of his skill in handling the crisis caused by the South Sea Bubble, Robert Walpole begins a 21 year stint as British Prime Minister (still the record). Sayings attributed to Walpole: "Let sleeping dogs lie", "Every man has his price", "Salutary neglect" (apparently in connection with the American colonies).
• 1721: Treaty of Nystad ends the Northern War (1700). Russia gains territories on Baltic (Estonia, Ingria, Livonia) from Sweden.
• September 11, 1722: recently establsihed city of New Orleans is hit with devastating hurricane.
• 1721: Zhu Yigui stages uprising in Formosa/Taiwan.
• 1724: Comanche fight a nine-day war at Great Mountain of Iron, it results in major defeat for the Apache.
• 1724: French Trader Bourgmont trades with Padoucah in Kansas.
• 1727: Isaac Newton dies. So does George I, who is succeeded by George II. Long live, etc.
• December 1732: Publication of Poor Richard's Almanac.
• February 22, 1732: George Washington born in Virginia. Later he grows up to accidently start French and Indian War. Although he won few battles he was tall and that is often confused with leadership ability.
• 1733: New York newspaper editor John Peter Zenger wins criminal libel case involving colonial governor of New York. Considered major victory for press freedom in the 13 Colonies.
• 1733: First English colonists arrive in debtor's colony Georgia.
• 1734: Weaver John Kay invents the fly shuttle which considerably increases the productivity of hand looms. Result is shortage of yarn, which creates incentive to mechanize cotton textile industry in England.
• 1735: New York jury acquits printer named John Peter Zinger of sedition.
• 1735: Britain abolishes by stateute the crime of witchcraft.
• 1736-1747: Nadir Shah establsihes short-lived dynasty in Central Asia.
• 1736: Patrick Henry is born in Virginia.
• 1736: Gin Act of 1736 abolished sales of gin and spirits to prisoners by jailors, but is not enforced. British prison tap rooms are not eliminated until 1784.
• 1737: Thomas Paine is born in Thetford, Norfolk, England.
• September 9, 1739: Stono Rebellion (Cato's Rebellion). Enslaved Angolan named Jemmy leads 20 other Black Caolinians in a heroic rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina.
• September 29, 1739: Security Act of 1739 requiring all white males in South Carolina to carry arms on Sundays to deter slave uprisings goes into effect.
• 1740: William Duell, 17 year old, is executed by hanging, but revives on the dissection table.
• 1740: War of Austrian Succession begins when Frederick the Great of Prussia invades Austrian province of Silesia (part of future Poland).
• 1741: Danish explorer Vitus Bering explores coast of British Columbia.
• 1741: Magdelen Boswell marries George Aitken, future parents of "John the Painter," future pro-American Revolutionary War saboteur.
• 1742-1775: Pugachev's Revolt in Russia.
• 1742: France acquires the port of Karaikal from the Nawab of Karfnataka, Chandra Singh.
• mid-1740s: Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield launch evangelical movement in the 13 colonies known as The Great Awakening.
• April 13, 1743: Thomas Jefferson is born in in Albemarle County, Virginia.
• 1744: Puritans of Massachusetts Bay offer a premium of 105 British pounds for every Native American male prisoners and 50 British pounds for Native American female and child prisoners.
• 1745: Jacobite Rising.
• 1746: Comanche wage war against the Osage and Pawnee.
• March 12 1747: 500 Chuchchi raid Anadyrsk capturing 7 herds of reindear.
• 1749: Pierre-Simon Laplace is born.
• 1752: Aomen Zhilue (Brief History of Macao) is published in China.
• September 28, 1752: "John the Painter," future pro-American Revolutionary War saboteur is born in Edinburgh.
• 1752: British Parliament passes act allowign judges to order the tarring and feathering of criminals' corpses to increase the effect of popular terror.
• 1753: British naval surgeon James Lind conclusively demonstrates that the consumption fo fresh lemons and oranges cure scury. The British Admiralty ignores the results because citrus fruts are too expensive, consuming sour kraut is also effective and enlisted sailors are not especially valued as human beings in any event. Scurvy outbreaks continue in the British navy as late as 1875.
• 1754: The French-Indian War begins. Benjamin Franklin proposes Albany Plan of Union for 13 colonies. Plan rejected by both Crown and colonies. Acceptance would have saved a lot of stupid bloodshed.
• 1756: Seven Years' War begins when Frederick the Great of Prussia invades Saxony (future Germany).
• 1757: British East India Company army led by Robert Clive defeats French-supported Indian ruler in Bengal at Battle of Plassey. Battle considered start of British territorial rule in India. British exploitation impoversishes wealthy Bengal (future bangladesh and Indian West Bengal).
• September 6, 1757: Marie-Joseph-Paul-Roch-Yves-Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette is born.
• 1757: Qing Dynasty (Manchu) China finally defeats the Oirots (Mongols).
• 1758: Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus publishes Systema naturae.
• 1759: British capture Quebec, marking downfall of French Empire in North America, with the exception of the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Americans are later grateful for French military intervention in free them from the British Empire.