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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1755 | - 1755: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language published; U.S. postal service established
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 1760 | - 1760: Industrial Revolution begins in England
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| 4 | 1762 | - 1762: Jean Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract
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| 5 | 1764 | - 1764: Mozart writes first symphony (aged eight)
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| 6 | 1765 | - 1765: James Watt invents the steam engine; Britain imposes the Stamp Act on the American Colonists
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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1773 | - 1773: The Boston Tea Party
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| 9 | 1775 | - 1775: The American Revolution begins
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| 10 | 1776 | - 1776: Declaration of Independence; Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
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| 11 | 1778 | - 1778: Captain James Cook discovers Hawaii
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| 12 | 1783 | - 1783: Revolutionary War ends with Treaty of Paris
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| 13 | 1787 | - 1787: U.S. Constitution signed
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| 14 | 1789 | - 1789: French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille; in U.S. George Washington elected President
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| 15 | 1791 | - 1791: U.S. Bill of Rights ratified
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| 16 | 1792 | - 1792: Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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| 17 | 1793 | - 1793: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed beginnning the Reign of Terror in France
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1754 - Aft 1792 (> 39 years)