18th century has part(s) 1730s
Events
1701–1750
1700–1721: Great Northern War between the Russian and Swedish Empires.
1701: Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I.
1701: The Battle of Feyiase marks the rise of the Ashanti Empire.
1701–1714: The War of the Spanish Succession is fought, involving most of continental Europe.
1702–1715: Camisard rebellion in France.
1703: Saint Petersburg is founded by Peter the Great; it is the Russian capital until 1918.
1703–1711: The Rákóczi uprising against the Habsburg monarchy.
1704: End of Japan's Genroku period.
1704: First Javanese War of Succession.
1706–1713: The War of the Spanish Succession: French troops defeated at the battles of Ramillies and Turin.
1707: Death of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb leads to the fragmentation of the Mughal Empire.
1707: The Act of Union is passed, merging the Scottish and English Parliaments, thus establishing the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1708: The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies and English Company Trading to the East Indies merge to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies.
1708–1709: Famine kills one-third of East Prussia's population.
1709: Foundation of the Hotak Afghan Empire.
1709: The Great Frost of 1709 marks the coldest winter in 500 years, contributing to the defeat of Sweden at Poltava.
1710: The world's first copyright legislation, Britain's Statute of Anne, takes effect.
1710–1711: Ottoman Empire fights Russia in the Russo-Turkish War and regains Azov.
1711: Bukhara Khanate dissolves as local begs seize power.
1711–1715: Tuscarora War between British, Dutch, and German settlers and the Tuscarora people of North Carolina.
1713: The Kangxi Emperor acknowledges the full recovery of the Chinese economy since its apex during the Ming.
1714: In Amsterdam, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the mercury-in-glass thermometer, which remains the most reliable and accurate thermometer until the electronic era.
1715: The first Jacobite rising breaks out; the British halt the Jacobite advance at the Battle of Sheriffmuir; Battle of Preston.
1716: Establishment of the Sikh Confederacy along the present-day India-Pakistan border.
1716–1718: Austro-Venetian-Turkish War.
1718: The city of New Orleans is founded by the French in North America.
1718–1720: War of the Quadruple Alliance between Spain, France, Britain, Austria, and the Netherlands.
1718–1730: Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire.
1719: Second Javanese War of Succession.
1720: The South Sea Bubble.
1720–1721: The Great Plague of Marseille.
1720: Qing forces oust Dzungar invaders from Tibet.
1721: The Treaty of Nystad is signed, ending the Great Northern War.
1721: Sack of Shamakhi, massacre of its Shia population by Sunni Lezgins.
1722: Siege of Isfahan results in the handover of Iran to the Hotaki Afghans.
1722–1723: Russo-Persian War.
1722–1725: Controversy over William Wood's halfpence leads to the Drapier's Letters and begins the Irish economic independence from England movement.
1723: Slavery is abolished in Russia; Peter the Great converts household slaves into house serfs.
1723–1730: The "Great Disaster", an invasion of Kazakh territories by the Dzungars.
1723–1732: The Qing and the Dzungars fight a series of wars across Qinghai, Dzungaria, and Outer Mongolia, with inconclusive results.
1724: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit proposes the Fahrenheit temperature scale.
1725: Austro-Spanish alliance revived. Russia joins in 1726.
1727–1729: Anglo-Spanish War ends inconclusively.1730: Mahmud I takes over Ottoman Empire after the Patrona Halil revolt, ending the Tulip period.
1730–1760: The First Great Awakening takes place in Great Britain and North America.
1732–1734: Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.
1733–1738: War of the Polish Succession.
1735–1739: Austro-Russo-Turkish War.
1735–1799: The Qianlong Emperor of China oversees a huge expansion in territory.
1738–1756: Famine across the Sahel; half the population of Timbuktu dies.
1737–1738: Hotaki Afghan Empire ends after the Siege of Kandahar by Nader Shah.
1739: Great Britain and Spain fight the War of Jenkins' Ear in the Caribbean.
1739: Nader Shah defeats a pan-Indian army of 300,000 at the Battle of Karnal. Taxation is stopped in Iran for three years.1739–1740: Nader Shah's Sindh expedition.
1740: Great Awakening, George Whitefield
1740–1741: Famine in Ireland kills 20 percent of the population.
1741–1743: Iran invades Uzbekistan, Khwarazm, Dagestan, and Oman.
1741–1751: Maratha invasions of Bengal.
1740–1748: War of the Austrian Succession.
1742:
Marvel's Mill, the first water-powered cotton mill, begins operation in England.
Anders Celsius proposes an inverted form of the centigrade temperature, which is later renamed Celsius in his honor.
1742: Premiere of Handel's Messiah
1743–1746: Another Ottoman-Persian War involves 375,000 men but ultimately ends in a stalemate.
1744: The First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud.
1744: Battle of Toulon is fought off the coast of France.
1744–1748: The First Carnatic War is fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India.
1745: Second Jacobite rising is begun by Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland.
1747: The Durrani Empire is founded by Ahmad Shah Durrani.
1748: The Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession and First Carnatic War.
1748–1754: The Second Carnatic War is fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India.
1750: Peak of the Little Ice Age.
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