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| 1 | 1682 | - 1682: Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
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| 2 | 1684 | - 1684: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's calculus published
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| 3 | 1690 | - 1690: John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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| 4 | 1701 | - 1701: War of the Spanish Succession
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| 5 | 1704 | - 1704: Bach's first cantata; first newspaper in America published (Boston News Letter)
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| 6 | 1707 | - 1707: United Kingdom of Great Britain formed, England, Wales and Scotland joined by parlimentary Act of Union
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| 7 | 1721 | - 1721: Bach completes the Brandenburg Concertos
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| 8 | 1732 | - 1732: Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe
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| 9 | 1755 | - 1755: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language published; U.S. postal service established
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| 10 | 1756 | - 1756: French and Indian Wars, Britain and Prussia defeat France, Spain, Austria and Russia. France loses North American colonies, Spain cedes Florida to Britain in exchange for Cuba
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| 11 | 1760 | - 1760: Industrial Revolution begins in England
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| 12 | 1762 | - 1762: Jean Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract
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| 13 | 1764 | - 1764: Mozart writes first symphony (aged eight)
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| 14 | 1765 | - 1765: James Watt invents the steam engine; Britain imposes the Stamp Act on the American Colonists
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| 15 | 1772 | - 1772: Partition of Poland, in 1772, 1793, and 1795, Austria, Prussia and Russia divide land and people ending its independence
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| 16 | 1773 | - 1773: The Boston Tea Party
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| 17 | 1775 | - 1775: The American Revolution begins
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| 18 | 1776 | - 1776: Declaration of Independence; Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
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| 19 | 1778 | - 1778: Captain James Cook discovers Hawaii
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| 20 | 1783 | - 1783: Revolutionary War ends with Treaty of Paris
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| 21 | 1787 | - 1787: U.S. Constitution signed
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| 22 | 1789 | - 1789: French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille; in U.S. George Washington elected President
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| 23 | 1791 | - 1791: U.S. Bill of Rights ratified
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| 24 | 1792 | - 1792: Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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| 25 | 1793 | - 1793: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed beginnning the Reign of Terror in France
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| 26 | 1794 | - 1794: Kosciusko's uprising in Poland quelled by the Russians
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| 27 | 1796 | - 1796: Jenner discovers smallpox vaccine
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| 28 | 1808 | - 1808: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
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| 29 | 1815 | - 1815: Battle of Waterloo crushes Napoleon
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| 30 | 1819 | - 1819: Bolivar defeats Spainish forces at Boyaca
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| 31 | 1826 | - 1826: Niepce takes first photograph
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| 32 | 1833 | - 1833: Slavery abolished in British Empire
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| 33 | 1842 | - 1842: Long uses ether as first anesthetic
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| 34 | 1859 | - 1859: Darwin's On the Origin of Species;Lenoir buids the first practical internal combustion engine
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| 35 | 1862 | - 1862: Pasteur's experiments lead to germ theory; Salon des Refuses introduces impressionism
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| 36 | 1867 | - 1867: Japan ends 675-year shogun rule
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