...Date... AGE Event
1728/--/-- -1 - Chambers's Cyclopedia; or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences is issued.
1728/--/-- -1 - Danish navigator Vitus Bering explores Bering Strait.
1728/--/-- -1 - English poet and playwright John Gay writes The Beggar's Opera.
1728/--/-- -1 - James Gibbs' Book of Architecture influences Colonial American designs.
1728/--/-- -1 - John Harrison begins his development of an accurate chronometer.
1728/09/09 0 *** Clopton, Margaret (Bristow) - Born
1729/--/-- 0 - Corsica rebels against Genoese rule.
1729/--/-- 0 - Denmark assumes control of Greenland.
1729/--/-- 0 - English actress Kitty Clive establishes her reputation at the Drury Lane Theatre.
1729/--/-- 0 - The city of Baltimore is founded in Maryland.
1729/--/-- 0 - The city of Karachi is founded in India (now in Pakistan).
1730/--/-- 1 - Canaletto paints the Basin of San Marco, one of his many views of Venice.
1730/--/-- 1 - Construction of the Province-hall (now Independence Hall) begins in Philadelphia.
1730/--/-- 1 - Peter II dies; he is succeeded by Anna as Empress of Russia.
1731/--/-- 2 - French novelist Abbe Prevost writes Manon Lescaut.
1731/--/-- 2 - John Hadley invents the quadrant for navigating at sea.
1731/--/-- 2 - The Gentleman's Magazine, the first magazine, is published in London.
1732/--/-- 3 - Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanack in Philadelphia.
1732/--/-- 3 - Covent Garden Opera House opens in London.
1732/--/-- 3 - Nadir Shah expels the Afghans from Persia (Iran) and reinstates Safavid rule.
1732/--/-- 3 - Nicola Salvi designs the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
1732/--/-- 3 - William Hogarth completes his series of engravings The Harlot's Progress.
1733/--/-- 4 - James Oglethorpe founds the colony of Georgia and the city of Savannah.
1733/--/-- 4 - John Kay invents the flying shuttle to increase the speed of weaving machines.
1733/--/-- 4 - Nadir Shah defeats the Turks and occupies Bagdhad.
1733/--/-- 4 - Stanislaw I is elected king of Poland with the support of Louis XV of France.
1733/--/-- 4 - The War of Polish Succession begins.
1734/--/-- 5 - Stanislaw I is deposed; Augustus III is installed as king of Poland.
1735/--/-- 6 - Antonio de Ulloa discovers the element platinum in South America.
1735/--/-- 6 - George Hadley proposes the Hadley cell, a circulation system for the atmosphere.
1736/--/-- 7 - Ch'ien-lung becomes emperor of China.
1736/--/-- 7 - French artist Maurice Quentin de La Tour paints his Portrait of Voltaire.
1736/--/-- 7 - Nadir assumes the title of Shah of Persia and founds the Afshar dynasty.
1736/--/-- 7 - Parliament passes the Gin Act to discourage public drunkenness in England.
1736/--/-- 7 - Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler begins writing his Mechanica.
1737/--/-- 8 - William Mayo founds the city of Richmond, Virginia.
1738/--/-- 9 - A porcelain factory is established in France at Vincennes; it moves later to Sevres.
1738/--/-- 9 - Bernoulli publishes Hydrodynamica, stating his law of hydrodynamics.
1738/--/-- 9 - George Whitefield precipitates the Great Awakening religious revival in America.
1738/--/-- 9 - The Treaty of Vienna concludes the War of the Polish Succession; Stanislaw I abdicates.
1738/--/-- 9 - The excavation of Herculaneum begins in Italy.
1739/--/-- 10 - John Wesley founds the Methodist religious movement.
1739/--/-- 10 - Mutilation of an English sea captain by the Spanish leads to the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1739/--/-- 10 - The British under Admiral Vernon raid Spanish settlements in the West Indies.
1739/--/-- 10 - The Persians under Nadir Shah defeat the Mogul army and destroy Delhi.
1740/--/-- 11 - Anna Empress of Russia dies; she is succeeded by Elizabeth in 1741.
1740/--/-- 11 - Charles VI's daughter Maria Theresa succeeds to the Austrian Habsburg empire.
1740/--/-- 11 - English novelist Samuel Richardson writes Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded.
1740/--/-- 11 - Frederick II (Frederick the Great) assumes the Prussian throne.
1740/--/-- 11 - Frederick II of Prussia invades the Habsburg province of Silesia.
1740/--/-- 11 - Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI dies; the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
1740/--/-- 11 - Scottish philosopher David Hume writes his Treatise of Human Nature.
1740/--/-- 11 - The British under James Oglethorpe attack Spanish possessions in Florida.
1741/--/-- 12 - George Frideric Handel composes the Messiah.
1741/--/-- 12 - Prussia forms an anti-Habsburg coalition with Bavaria, Spain and France.
1742/--/-- 13 - A Spanish invasion of Georgia is defeated by British forces under James Oglethorpe.
1742/--/-- 13 - Maria Theresa makes peace with Frederick II; Silesia is ceded to Prussia.
1742/--/-- 13 - Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius invents the Celsius scale for temperature.
1742/--/-- 13 - The Anti-Habsburg coalition elects Charles VII as Holy Roman Emperor.
1742/--/-- 13 - The cast iron Franklin stove is invented by Benjamin Franklin.
1743/--/-- 14 - An English porcelain factory is established at Chelsea in London.
1743/--/-- 14 - The first permanent bullring is built in Madrid.
1744/--/-- 15 - King George's War begins in North America between Britain and France.
1744/--/-- 15 - Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab founds the Wahhabi Muslim sect about this time.
1745/--/-- 16 - Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) leads a second Jacobite rebellion.
1745/--/-- 16 - Giovanni Piranesi begins his etchings of Carceri d'Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons).
1745/--/-- 16 - Louis XV installs the Marquise de Pompadour as his official mistress.
1745/--/-- 16 - Maria Theresa's husband Francis succeeds Charles VII as Holy Roman Emperor.
1745/--/-- 16 - The British under Pepperrell capture the French fortress of Louisburg in Canada.
1745/--/-- 16 - The French under the Comte de Saxe defeat Austrian, English and Dutch forces at Fontenoy.
1745/--/-- 16 - The Treaty of Dresden confirms Prussian control of Silesia.
1746/--/-- 17 - Britain and France struggle for the domination of India; France seizes Madras.
1746/--/-- 17 - Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) is defeated at Culloden.
1746/--/-- 17 - English actor David Garrick becomes the manager of the Drury Lane Theatre.
1746/--/-- 17 - Ferdinand VI succeeds Philip V as king of Spain.
1746/--/-- 17 - Princeton University is founded in New Jersey.
1747/--/-- 18 - Nadir Shah of Persia (Iran) is assassinated.
1747/--/-- 18 - The Ohio Company is formed to promote settlement west of the Appalachians.
1747/--/-- 18 - The Pathans defeat the Persians; Ahmad Shah Sadozai founds a new dynasty.
1748/--/-- 19 - English artist Thomas Gainsborough paints Robert Andrews and Mary, His Wife.
1748/--/-- 19 - French political philosopher Montesquieu writes The Spirit of the Laws.
1748/--/-- 19 - The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
1749/--/-- 20 - English novelist Henry Fielding writes Tom Jones.
1749/--/-- 20 - Italian dramatist Carlo Goldoni writes La Putta honorata (The Respectable Girl).
1749/--/-- 20 - The British found Halifax in Nova Scotia as a military base.
1750/--/-- 21 - American frontiersman Christopher Gist explores the Ohio River region.
1750/--/-- 21 - Baal Shem Tov founds the Jewish sect of Hasidism about this time.
1750/--/-- 21 - Poona becomes the capital of the Maratha confederacy in India.
1750/--/-- 21 - The Afshars are replaced by the Zand dynasty in Persia (Iran); Shiraz becomes the capital.
1750/--/-- 21 - The Conestoga wagon develops in Pennsylvania about this time.
1750/--/-- 21 - The neoclassical movement in art develops in Europe about this time.
1750/--/-- 21 - The waltz becomes a popular dance in Europe about this time.
1751/--/-- 22 - English novelist Tobias Smollett writes The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker.
1751/--/-- 22 - English soldier Robert Clive captures Arcot in India.
1751/--/-- 22 - Jean Etienne Guettard produces the first geological maps of France.
1751/--/-- 22 - The Worcester Royal Porcelain Company is founded in England.
1751/--/-- 22 - The first volume of Diderot's Encyclopedie is published.
1751/09/28 23 *** Bristow, James [Husband] - Born to Bristow, Jedediah and Elinor
1752/--/-- 23 - Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning conductor.
1752/--/-- 23 - French artist Francois Boucher paints Mademoiselle O'Murphy.
1752/--/-- 23 - Italian artist Tiepolo paints the Marriage of Frederick Barbarossa.
1753/--/-- 24 - Swedish biologist Carolus Linnaeus publishes his system of plant classification.
1753/--/-- 24 - The British Museum is founded in London.
1754/--/-- 25 - French attacks against the English in Ohio lead to the last French and Indian War.
1754/--/-- 25 - Italian architect Rastrelli designs the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad).
1754/--/-- 25 - The Royal and Ancient Golf Club is founded at Saint Andrews in Scotland.
1754/--/-- 25 - Thomas Chippendale publishes The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Directory.
1755/--/-- 26 - Adventurer and lover Casanova is arrested in Venice for witchcraft.
1755/--/-- 26 - Pasquale Paoli founds an independent state in Corsica.
1755/--/-- 26 - Samuel Johnson publishes his Dictionary of the English Language.
1755/--/-- 26 - The British under Braddock are defeated by the French at Fort Duquesne.
1755/--/-- 26 - The French population of Acadia (Nova Scotia) is deported by the British.
1755/--/-- 26 - The Lisbon earthquake kills 50,000.
1756/--/-- 27 - 123 British soldiers are alleged to have died in the Black Hole of Calcutta in Bengal, India.
1756/--/-- 27 - French general Montcalm captures Fort Oswego and dominates the Great Lakes.
1756/--/-- 27 - The Seven Years' War begins with a Prussian attack on Austria.
1756/--/-- 27 - William Pitt (the Elder) becomes prime minister of Britain.
1757/--/-- 28 - Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Franco-Austrian army at Rossbach.
1757/--/-- 28 - Robert Clive defeats the nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey in India.
1758/--/-- 29 - Americans and British regulars under General Forbes capture Fort Duquesne.
1758/--/-- 29 - The Burmese overthrow the Mons; Rangoon becomes the new capital of Burma.
1758/--/-- 29 - The French under Montcalm defeat the British at Fort Ticonderoga.
1759/--/-- 30 - French poet and dramatist Voltaire publishes his philosophical novel Candide.
1759/--/-- 30 - Josiah Wedgwood establishes his first pottery works.
1759/--/-- 30 - The Botanical Gardens are founded at Kew in London.
1759/--/-- 30 - The British defeat the French at Niagara; Amherst captures Fort Ticonderoga.
1759/--/-- 30 - The British under Wolfe defeat Montcalm at Quebec; Wolfe dies from his wounds.
1759/--/-- 30 - The Russians defeat Frederick II at Kunersdorf.
1760/--/-- 31 - English architect Robert Adam begins the design of Syon House.
1760/--/-- 31 - English novelist Laurence Sterne publishes the first volumes of Tristram Shandy.
1760/--/-- 31 - George II dies; he is succeeded by his grandson George III as king of England.
1760/--/-- 31 - The British under Amherst capture Montreal, ending French resistance in North America.
1760/--/-- 31 - The Russians invade Prussia and burn Berlin.
1761/--/-- 32 - Franz Josef Haydn becomes court composer to Prince Esterhazy.
1761/09/02 32 - George III crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Tho
1762/--/-- 33 - American Indian religious leader, the Delaware Prophet, is active in the Ohio Valley.
1762/--/-- 33 - Britain seizes Cuba and the Philippines from Spain.
1762/--/-- 33 - British animal painter George Stubbs completes the Horse Attacked by a Lion.
1762/--/-- 33 - Catherine II (Catherine the Great) succeeds her husband as empress of Russia.
1762/--/-- 33 - France cedes Louisiana to Spain to prevent British control of the region.
1762/--/-- 33 - French philosopher Rousseau publishes The Social Contract and Emile.
1762/--/-- 33 - Peter III succeeds Elizabeth as emperor of Russia, but is deposed and murdered.
1762/--/-- 33 - The Russians end their alliance with Austria against Prussia.
1762/--/-- 33 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performs at the Imperial court in Vienna at age 6.
1763/--/-- 34 - Augustus III dies; he is succeeded (1764) by Stanislaw II, the last king of Poland.
1763/--/-- 34 - Britain returns Cuba and the Philippines to Spain in exchange for Florida.
1763/--/-- 34 - France cedes Canada and all territories east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
1763/--/-- 34 - France recognizes British dominance in India.
1763/--/-- 34 - French forces withdraw from Germany; Prussia retains Silesia.
1763/--/-- 34 - James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson for the first time.
1763/--/-- 34 - The Ottawa chief Pontiac leads an uprising against the British.
1763/--/-- 34 - The Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War and the French and Indian Wars.
1763/--/-- 34 - The Wahhabi Saudis begin to establish control over Arabia.
1764/--/-- 35 - German historian Johann Winckelmann publishes his History of the Art of Antiquity.
1764/--/-- 35 - Thomas Chatterton forges the Rowley poems at the age of 12.
1765/--/-- 36 - Francis I dies; he is succeeded by Joseph II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1765/--/-- 36 - French artist Francois Boucher is appointed court painter to Louis XV.
1765/--/-- 36 - George Grenville's Stamp Act imposes a tax on all publications in the American colonies.
1765/--/-- 36 - Horace Walpole publishes his Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto.
1765/--/-- 36 - Lancelot Capability Brown designs the gardens at Blenheim Palace.
1765/--/-- 36 - Robert Clive is appointed governor of Bengal in India.
1765/--/-- 36 - Samuel Adams helps to found the Sons of Liberty to oppose the Stamp Act.
1765/--/-- 36 - Sir William Blackstone begins his Commentaries on the Laws of England.
1766/--/-- 37 - Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith publishes The Vicar of Wakefield.
1766/--/-- 37 - English chemist Henry Cavendish isolates hydrogen gas for the first time.
1766/--/-- 37 - French artist Jean Honore Fragonard paints The Swing.
1766/--/-- 37 - German dramatist and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing publishes Laocoon.
1766/--/-- 37 - The Declaratory Act imposes Parliament's right to make laws in the colonies.
1766/--/-- 37 - The Nautical Almanac provides the first practical method for determining longitude.
1766/--/-- 37 - The Stamp Act is repealed after strong opposition from American colonists.
1767/--/-- 38 - German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck writes his opera Alceste.
1767/--/-- 38 - German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn publishes Phaedon.
1767/--/-- 38 - The Burmese destroy the Siam capital of Ayutthaya; the Bangkok Period begins.
1767/--/-- 38 - The Mason-Dixon line establishes the Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary.
1767/--/-- 38 - The Townshend Acts impose a tax on imports to North America.
1768/--/-- 39 - Genoa sells its rights in Corsica to France.
1768/--/-- 39 - Joshua Reynolds becomes the first president of the Royal Academy in London.
1768/--/-- 39 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville claims the Pacific island of Tahiti for France.
1768/--/-- 39 - The Russo-Turkish War is renewed.
1768/--/-- 39 - The first weekly numbers of the Encyclopaedia Britannica are issued.
1769/--/-- 40 - American pioneer Daniel Boone explores a route through the Cumberland Gap.
1769/--/-- 40 - French forces in Corsica defeat Pasquale Paoli; Corsica becomes a province of France.
1769/--/-- 40 - James Watt patents a condenser to improve the performance of steam engines.
1769/--/-- 40 - Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac is assassinated by a Peoria Indian.
1769/--/-- 40 - Richard Arkwright invents a spinning frame to mechanize cotton weaving.
1769/--/-- 40 - The Comtesse du Barry becomes the official mistress to Louis XV.
1769/--/-- 40 - The Gurkhas conquer Nepal.
1770/--/-- 41 - A brawl between British troops and colonists leads to the Boston Massacre.
1770/--/-- 41 - British explorer James Bruce discovers the source of the Blue Nile.
1770/--/-- 41 - English artist Thomas Gainsborough paints The Blue Boy.
1770/--/-- 41 - English navigator James Cook explores New Zealand and the east coast of Australia.
1770/--/-- 41 - Lord North becomes prime minister of Britain.
1770/--/-- 41 - Louis, the future king of France, marries Marie Antoinette.
1770/--/-- 41 - The British Parliament repeals the Townshend Acts.
1770/--/-- 41 - Thomas Jefferson begins building Monticello, his house in Virginia.
1771/--/-- 42 - Governor Tyron defeats the Regulators (dissident farmers) in North Carolina.
1771/--/-- 42 - Gustav III succeeds his father as king of Sweden.
1772/--/-- 43 *** Clopton, Margaret (Bristow) - Died
1772/--/-- 43 - American artist Benjamin West paints The Death of Wolfe.
1772/--/-- 43 - English artist Joshua Reynolds paints a Portrait of Samuel Johnson.
1772/--/-- 43 - Poland is partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria.
In 1728 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
In 1728 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
By 1772 Communications was by:
Post Office
in addition.
In 1728 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1728 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1728 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1728 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
In 1728 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:58:10