| - 1701 - 2 1 Daily Courant & Norwich Post becomes first daily newspapers in England. |
| - 1707 Act of Union passed merging Scottish & English Parliaments, thus establishing Kingdom of Great Britain. |
| - 1708 Company of Merchants of London Trading into East Indies & English Company Trading to East Indies merged to form United Company of Merchants of England Trading to East Indies. |
| - 1709 Great Frost of 1709 Coldest winter in 500 years. |
| - 1709 Charles XII of Sweden flees to Ottoman Empire after Peter I of Russia defeats his army at Battle of Poltava. |
| - 1714 Accession of George I, Elector of Hanover, to throne of Great Britain. |
| - 1715 First Jacobite rebellion breaks out |
| - 1719 Spanish attempt to restart Jacobite rebellion fails. |
| - 1721 Robert Walpole became first Prime Minister of Great Britain (de facto). |
| - 1721 Treaty of Nystad signed, ending Great Northern War. |
| - 1727 - 9 2 Anglo-Spanish War |
| - 1729 - 35 6 Charles Wesley & John Wesley begin Methodism in England |
| - 1730 - 60 30 First Great Awakening takes place in Great Britain & North America. |
| - 1748 - 54 6 Second Carnatic War fought between British, French, Marathas, & Mysore in India |
| - 1750 Peak of Little Ice Age |
| - 1744 French attempt to restart Jacobite rebellion fails |
| - 1722 - 5 3 Controversy over William Wood's halfpence leads to Drapier's Letters & begins Irish economic independence from England movement. |
| - 1740 - 1 1 Famine in Ireland killed ten per cent of population. |
| - 1739 Great Britain & Spain fight War of Jenkins' Ear in Caribbean. |
| - 1740 British attempt to capture St. Augustine, Florida but lose to Spanish during Siege of St. Augustine. |
| - 1744 - 8 4 First Carnatic War fought between British, French, Marathas, & Mysore in India. |
| - 1745 Second Jacobite Rebellion began by Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland. |
| - 1757 Battle of Plassey signaled beginning of formal British rule in India after years of commercial activity under auspices of East India Company. |
| - 1758 British colonel James Wolfe issues Wolfe's Manifesto |
| - 1759 French commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm & British commander James Wolfe die during Battle of Plains of Abraham. |
| - 1765 Stamp Act introduced into American colonies by UK Parliament. |
| - 1766 - 99 33 Anglo-Mysore Wars |
| - 1771 Richard Arkwright & his partners build world's first water-powered mill at Cromford. |
| - 1772 Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark. |
| - 1772 Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, becoming almost an absolute monarch. |
| - 1755 A Dictionary of English Language by Samuel Johnson |
| - 1711 Tuning fork invented by John Shore |
| - 1712 Steam Engine invented by Thomas Newcomen |
| - 1714 Mercury thermometer by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit |
| - 1717 diving bell was successfully tested by Edmond Halley, sustainable to a depth of 55 ft |
| - 1730 octant navigational tool was developed by John Hadley in England, & Thomas Godfrey in America |
| - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright |
| - John Small, English cricketer |
| - Edward "Lumpy" Stevens, English cricketer |
| - Robert Wilks, English actor |
| - Laurence Sterne, Anglo-Irish writer |
| - Walter Scott, Scottish novelest & poet |
| - Christopher Smart, English poet & actor |
| - Robert Southey, English poet & biographer |
| - Hester Thrale, English memoirist |
| - Charlotte Turner Smith, English writer |
| - Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist & Church of Ireland Dean |
| - Thomas Gray, English poet, scholar, & educator |
| - Eliza Haywood, English writer |
| - Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist, thinker & mystic |
| - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| - John Newbery, English children's literature publisher |
| - Alexander Pope, English poet |
| - Ann Radcliffe, English novelist |
| - Samuel Richardson, English novelist |
| - 1789 Great Britain & Spain dispute Nootka Sound during Nootka Crisis. |
| - William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| - John Wesley, English theologian, founder of Methodism |
| - Jane Austen, English writer |
| - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English Poet, essayist, & children's author |
| - John O'Keeffee, Irish playwright |
| - Anne Oldfield, English actress |
| - Hannah Pritchard, English actress |
| - Hester Santlow, English actress, ballerina, dancer |
| - Joshua Reynolds, English painter |
| - Daniel Defoe, English novelist & journalist |
| - Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist |
| - Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish writer, poet, children's writer, & playwright |
| - Henry Fielding, English novelist |
| - Charlotte Lennox, English novelist & poet |
| - Matthew Lewis, English novelist & playwright |
| - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer |
| - Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist |
| - 1792 King Gustav III of Sweden was assassinated by a conspiracy of noblemen. |
| - John Russell, Anglo-Irish politician |
| - Lionel Sackville, Anglo-Irish politician |
| - Charles Edward Stuart, English Jacobite exile |
| - George Vancouver, British Captain & explorer |
| - Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of Great Britain |
| - James Wolfe, British officer |
| - Barton Booth, English actor |
| - Colley Cibber, English actor, poet, playwright |
| - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor |
| - David Garrick, English actor |
| - John Gay, English dramatist & poet |
| - Charles Johnson, English playwright |
| - Charles Macklin, Irish actor |
| - Samuel Arnold, English composer & musician |
| - Charles Burney, English musician & music historian |
| - Isaac Watts, English hymnist |
| - William Cowper, English hymnist & poet |
| - 1794 Jay's Treaty concluded between Great Britain & United States, by which Western outposts in Great Lakes are returned to U.S., & commerce between two countries is regulated. |
| - 1798 Irish Rebellion failed to overthrow British rule in Ireland. |
| - Anne, Queen of Great Britain |
| - William Cavendish, Anglo-Irish politician |
| - John Carteret, Anglo-Irish politician |
| - Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné), Swedish biologist |
| - Edmond Malone, Irish literary scholar |
| - Edward Gibbon, English historian |
| - Edward Jenner, English inventor of vaccination |
| - William Jones, English philologist |
| - John Law, Scottish economist |
| - Thomas Malthus, English economist |
| - Joseph Priestley, English dissenting minister & chemist |
| - John Smeaton, English civil engineer & physicist |
| - Adam Smith, Scottish economist & philosopher |
| - James Watt, Scottish scientist & inventor |
| - John Whitehurst, English geologist |
| - Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (discovered oxygen) |
| - Horace Walpole, English writer & politician |
| - Mary Wollstonecraft, British writer & feminist |
| - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher & reformer |
| - George Berkeley, Irish empiricist philosopher |
| - Edmund Burke, British statesman & philosopher |
| - Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| - Erasmus Darwin, English philosopher, poet & scientist |
| - William Godwin, English philosopher & novelist |
| - Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| - David Hume, Scottish philosopher |
| - Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| - William Law, English theologian |
| - James Boswell, Scottish biographer |
| - Frances Burney, English novelist |
| - Robert Burns, Scottish poet |
| - Samuel Johnson, British writer, lexicographer, poet, & literary critic |
| - 1720 British South Sea Bubble |
| - 1722 Welsh Bartholomew Roberts is killed in a sea battle off African coast. |
| - 1783 Famine in Iceland caused by eruption of Laki volcano. |
| - James Cook, English navigator, explorer & cartographer |
| - Joseph Banks, English botanist |
| - George Fordyce, Scottish physician & chemist |
| - William Blake, English artist & poet |
| - Thomas Gainsborough, English painter |
| - William Hogarth, English painter & engraver |
| - 1704 A Tale of a Tub by British Jonathan Swift first published |
| - 1712 Rape of Lock by English Alexander Pope (publication of first version) |
| - 1719 Robinson Crusoe by English Daniel Defoe |
| - 1726 Gulliver's Travels by British Jonathan Swift |
| - 1728 Dunciad by British Alexander Pope (publication of first version) |
| - 1744 A Little Pretty Pocket-Book becomes one of first books marketed for children |
| - 1794 Songs of Experience by English William Blake |
| - 1798 Lyrical Ballads by English William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| - 1798 An Essay on Principle of Population published by English Thomas Malthus |
| - 1749 History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by English Henry Fielding |
| - 1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by English Thomas Gray published |
| - 1759 Theory of Moral Sentiments by Scottish Adam Smith |
| - 1789 Songs of Innocence by English William Blake |
| - 1786 Poems, Chiefly in Scottish Dialect by Robert Burns |
| - 1759 - 67 8 Tristram Shandy by British Laurence Sterne |
| - 1748 Clarissa by English Samuel Richardson |
| - 1776 Wealth of Nations, foundation of modern theory of economy, was published by Scottsman Adam Smith |
| - 1776 - 89 12 History of Decline & Fall of Roman Empire was published by English Edward Gibbon |
| - 1779 Amazing Grace published by English John Newton |
| - 1779 - 82 3 Lives of Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson |
| - 1785 Power loom invented by English Edmund Cartwright |
| - 1786 Threshing machine invented by English Andrew Meikle |
| - 1798 English Edward Jenner publishes a treatise about smallpox vaccination |
| - 1733 Flying shuttle invented by English John Kay |
| - 1740 Modern steel was developed by English Benjamin Huntsman |
| - 1764 Spinning Jenny created by English James Hargreaves brought on Industrial Revolution |
| - 1765 Scottish James Watt enhances Newcomen's steam engine, allowing new steel technologies |
| - 1761 problem of Longitude was finally resolved by fourth chronometer of English John Harrison |
| - 1774 English Joseph Priestley discovers "dephlogisticated air" Oxygen |
| - 1775 English Joseph Priestley first synthesis of "phlogisticated nitrous air" Nitrous Oxide "laughing gas" |
| - 1777 Circular saw invented by English Samuel Miller |
| - Thomas Paine, English philosopher |
| - Edward Teach (Blackbeard) English |
| - John Rackham (Calico Jack) English |
| - Irish Anne Bonny |
| - Thomas Percy, English bishop & editor |
| - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| - Joseph Black, Scottish chemist (discovered carbon dioxide) |
| - Horatio Nelson, British admiral |
| - John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| - English Henry Cavendish, chemist (recognized Hydrogen as its own elemental substance) |
| - 1796 English Edward Jenner administers first smallpox vaccination. Smallpox killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year during 18th century (including five reigning monarchs).[16] |
| - 1796 Scottish Mungo Park, backed by African Association, is first European to set eyes on Niger River in Africa. |
| - 1791 - 5 4 English George Vancouver explores world during Vancouver Expedition. |
| - 1787 Freed slaves from London founded Freetown in present-day Sierra Leone. |
| - 1783 Treaty of Paris formally ends American War of Independence. |
| - 1703 - 11 8 Rákóczi Uprising against Habsburg Monarchy. |
| - 1708 - 9 1 Famine kills one-third of East Prussia's population. |
| - 1715 Louis XIV dies, leaving France deep in debt. |
| - 1720 - 1 1 Great Plague of Marseille |
| - 1740 - 8 8 War of Austrian Succession |
| - 1789 - 99 10 French Revolution |
| - Jacques-Louis David, French painter |
| - Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect |
| - Étienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor |
| - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter |
| - Jean-Paul Marat, French journalist |
| - François-André Danican Philidor, French composer & chess master |
| - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer |
| - Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher |
| - Charles de Secondat (Montesquieu), French thinker |
| - Edmé Bouchardon, French sculptor |
| - François Boucher, French painter |
| - Antoine Watteau, French painter |
| - Pierre Beaumarchais, French writer |
| - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet & literary critic |
| - Denis Diderot, French writer & philosopher |
| - Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, German painter & architect |
| - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter |
| - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter |
| - Jacob Philipp Hackert, German painter |
| - Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Austrian-Italian architect |
| - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor, student of his father |
| - Jean-Louis Lemoyne, French sculptor |
| - Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss painter |
| - Robert Le Lorrain, French sculptor |
| - Antoine Ignace Melling, French-German painter, architect |
| - Louis Montoyer, Belgian architect |
| - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (Saxony) |
| - Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn, German writer, Jewish theologian, translator, & professor |
| - Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, writer, & critic |
| - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher |
| - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, physicist & astronomer |
| - Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-French mathematician & physicist |
| - Pierre Simon Laplace, French physicist & mathematician |
| - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist, considered father of modern chemistry |
| - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer |
| - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer |
| - George Frideric Handel, German-English composer |
| - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer |
| - Antoine de Lhoyer, French composer & guitarist |
| - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer |
| - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer |
| - Johann Pachelbel, German composer, teacher |
| - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist & encyclopedist |
| - Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician & physicist |
| - Alexis Clairault, French mathematician |
| - 1798 - 1800 2 Quasi-War between United States & France. |
| - 1799 Napoleon staged a coup d'état & became First Consul of France. |
| - 1799 Dutch East India Company is dissolved. |
| - Marie Antoinette, Austrian-born Queen of France |
| - François Couperin, French composer |
| - Michel Benoist, French painter, architect, missionary in China |
| - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French writer |
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer |
| - Friedrich Schiller, German writer |
| - Voltaire, French writer & philosopher |
| - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer & philosopher |
| - Christian Thomasius, German philosopher & jurist |
| - Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, German religious writer & bishop |
| - Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary leader |
| - Maria Theresa, Austrian Empress |
| - 1751 - 85 34 French Encyclopédie |
| - Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary |
| - Georges Danton, French revolutionary leader |
| - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French officer |
| - 1759 Candide by Voltaire |
| - 1797 Napoleon's invasion & partition of Republic of Venice ended over 1,000 years of independence for Serene Republic. |
| - 1776 Illuminati founded by German Adam Weishaupt |
| - 1788 First French Quaker community established in Congénies |
| - 1776 Steamboat invented by French Claude de Jouffroy |
| - 1762 Emile: or, On Education by French Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| - 1762 Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right by Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| - 1789 French Antoine Lavoisier discovers law of conservation of mass, basis for chemistry, & begins modern chemistry |
| - 1788 Critique of Practical Reason by German Immanuel Kant |
| - 1774 Sorrows of Young Werther by German Goethe first published |
| - 1781 Critique of Pure Reason by German Immanuel Kant (publication of first edition) |
| - 1781 Robbers by German Friedrich Schiller first published |
| - 1782 Les Liaisons dangereuses by French Pierre Choderlos de Laclos |
| - 1790 Reflections on Revolution in France by Irish Edmund Burke |
| - 1779 Photosynthesis was first discovered by Dutch Jan Ingenhousz |
| - 1784 Oil lamp invented by Swiss Aimé Argand |
| - 1798 Lithographic printing process invented by German Alois Senefelder |
| - 1704 - 17 13 One Thousand & One Nights translated into French by Antoine Galland. work becomes immensely popular throughout Europe. |
| - 1745 Leyden jar invented by German Ewald Georg von Kleist was first electrical capacitor |
| - 1795 Marseillaise officially adopted as French national anthem. |
| - 1792 - 1815 23 Great French War started as French Revolutionary Wars which lead into Napoleonic Wars. |
| - 1793 - 6 3 Revolt in Vendée against French Republic at time of Revolution. |
| - 1790 United States of Belgium proclaimed following Brabant Revolution. |
| - 1781 - 5 4 Serfdom abolished in Austrian monarchy (first step; second step in 1848) |
| - Marquis de Lafayette, Continental Army officer |
| - 1701 - 14 13 War of Spanish Succession was a conflict which involved most of Europe. |
| - 1715 Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism & Confucianism incompatible. |
| - 1738 Pope Clement XII issues Eminenti Apostolatus Specula prohibiting Catholics from becoming Freemasons. |
| - 1741 Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery. |
| - 1755 Lisbon earthquake |
| - 1761 Maratha Empire defeated at Battle of Panipat |
| - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer |
| - 1709 first piano was built by Italian Bartolomeo Cristofori |
| - Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter |
| - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian painter |
| - Honoré Mirabeau, French writer & politician |
| - Marquis de Sade, French writer & philosopher |
| - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher |
| - Antonio Salieri, Venetian composer |
| - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer. |
| - Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker |
| - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer |
| - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish scientist & explorer |
| - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist, composer, & music theorist. |
| - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright |
| - Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist |
| - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter |
| - Canaletto, Italian painter |
| - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian painter, architect, missionary in China |
| - Leonardo Coccorante, Italian painter |
| - Giuseppe Grisoni, Italian painter |
| - Francesco Guardi, Italian painter |
| - Cesare Beccaria, Italian philosopher & politician |
| - Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Italian-born Russian architect |
| - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian painter |
| - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect |
| - Alessandro Malaspina, Spanish explorer |
| - José Moñino y Redondo, Spanish statesman |
| - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Spanish writer |
| - Giacomo Casanova, Venetian adventurer, writer & womanizer |
| - 1796 Battle of Montenotte. Engagement in War of First Coalition. Napoleon Bonaparte's first victory as an army commander. |
| - 1796 British ejected Dutch from Ceylon. |
| - Sebastião de Melo, Prime Minister of Portugal |
| - Shah Rukh of Persia, King of Persia. |
| - 1720 Spanish military embarks on Villasur expedition from Mexico & travel into Great Plains |
| - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher & writer |
| - Joseph Perl, German writer, Jewish theologian, & educator |
| - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician |
| - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist & engineer |
| - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician |
| - 1725 New Science by Italian Giambattista Vico |
| - Roger Joseph Boscovich, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, & Jesuit Croatian in Italy. |
| - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician |
| - Laura Bassi, Italian scientist, first European female college teacher |
| - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian bishop, founder of Redemptorists, Saint |
| - Joseph de Maistre, Italian philosopher & diplomat |
| - Kali Mirza, Bengali composer |
| - Bharatchandra Ray, Bengali composer, musician, & poet |
| - Sadarang, Hindustani composer |
| - Sadhak Kamalakanta, Indian poet |
| - Ramprasad Sen, Bengali poet & singer |
| - Ahmad Shah Abdali, Afghan King |
| - Madhavrao I, Peshwa/Prime Minister of Maratha Empire |
| - Nanasaheb, Peshwa/Prime Minister of Maratha Empire |
| - Juan Francisco, Spanish naval officer & explorer |
| - Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter |
| - 1700 - 21 21 Russia supplants Sweden as dominant Baltic power after Great Northern War. |
| - 1703 Saint Petersburg founded by Peter Great. Russian capital until 1918. |
| - 1721 Peter I reforms Russian Orthodox Church |
| - 1723 Slavery abolished in Russia. Peter Great converted household slaves into house serfs. |
| - 1732 - 4 2 Crimean Tatar raids into Russia. |
| - 1733 - 8 5 War of Polish Succession. |
| - 1735 - 9 4 Russo-Turkish War. |
| - 1771 Plague Riot in Moscow. |
| - 1740 Frederick Great comes to power in Prussia. |
| - 1741 Russians began settling Aleutian Islands. |
| - 1768 - 74 6 Russo-Turkish War |
| - 1772 Partitions of Poland marks end of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| - 1772 - 95 23 Partitions of Poland ended Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth & erased Poland from map for 123 years. |
| - 1773 - 5 2 Pugachev's Rebellion was largest peasant revolt in Russia's history. |
| - 1787 - 92 5 Russo-Turkish War |
| - Tadeusz Rejtan, Polish politician |
| - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist |
| - Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer |
| - Alexander Suvorov, Russian military leader |
| - 1794 Polish revolt |
| - 1770 - 1 1 Famine in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands. |
| - 1790 Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow by Russian Alexander Radishchev |
| - 1792 Poor Liza by Russian Nikolai Karamzin |
| - Baal Shem Tov, Ukrainian rabbi |
| - Mikhail Ivanovich Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor |
| - Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian writer |
| - Francis II Rákóczi, Prince of Hungary & Transylvania, revolutionary leader |
| - 1790 Establishment of Polish-Prussian Pact |
| - Augustus III, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland, & Grand Duke of Lithuania |
| - 1783 Russian Empire annexed Crimean Khanate. |
| - 1785 - 91 6 Imam Sheikh Mansur, a Chechen warrior & Muslim mystic, led a coalition of Muslim Caucasian tribes from throughout Caucasus in a holy war against Russian invaders. |
| - 1799 Rosetta stone discovered by Napoleon's troops |
| - 1725 Fulani nomads took complete control of Fuuta Jallon in Guinea & set up first of many Fulani jihad states to come. |
| - 1738 - 56 18 Famine across Sahel, half population of Timbuktu, Mali died. |
| - 1779 - 1879 100 Xhosa Wars between British & Boer settlers & Xhosas in South African Republic |
| - 1718 - 30 12 Tulip period of Ottoman Empire |
| - 1730 Mahmud I takes over Ottoman Empire after Patrona Halil revolt, ending Tulip period. |
| - 1744 First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud. |
| - 1723 - 30 7 "Great Disaster" – an invasion of Kazakh territories by Dzungars. |
| - Dede Efendi, Turkish/Ottoman composer |
| - Hampartsoum Limondjian, Armenian/Ottoman composer |
| - 1795 Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to ground. |
| - Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab, Arab Islamic theologian & founder of Wahhabism |
| - 1707 After Aurangzeb's death, Mughal Empire enters a long decline & Maratha Empire slowly replaces it. |
| - 1707 War of 27 years between Marathas & Mughals ends in India. |
| - 1709 Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan. |
| - 1713 - 4 1 Tarabai establishes rival Maratha Empire government in Kolhapur against Chattrapati Shahu. |
| - 1716 Establishment of Sikh Confederacy along India Pakistan border. |
| - 1722 Afghans conquered Iran, overthrowing Safavid Shah Soltan Hosein. |
| - 1739 Nader Shah defeated Mughals at Battle of Karnal & sacked Delhi. |
| - 1760 Zand dynasty founded in Iran |
| - Nidhu Babu, Indian & Bengali musician & composer |
| - 1763 Kingdom of Mysore conquers Kingdom of Keladi |
| - 1768 Gurkhas conquered Nepal. |
| - 1769 - 73 4 Bengal famine of 1770 killed one third of Bengal population. |
| - 1747 Ahmed Shah Durrani founded Durrani Empire in modern day Afghanistan. |
| - 1748 Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends War of Austrian Succession & First Carnatic War. |
| - 1754 Treaty of Pondicherry ends Second Carnatic War & recognizes Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah as Nawab of Carnatic. |
| - 1763 Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War & Third Carnatic War |
| - 1794 Qajar dynasty founded in Iran after replacing Zand dynasty. |
| - 1736 Nader Shah assumed title of Shah of Persia & founded Afsharid dynasty. Ruled until his death in 1747. |
| - 1700 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off coast of Pacific Northwest; coast of Japan is struck by a tsunami. |
| - 1702 Forty-seven Ronin attack Kira Yoshinaka & then commit seppuku in Japan. |
| - 1704 End of Japan's Genroku period. |
| - 1707 Mount Fuji erupts in Japan. |
| - 1722 Kangxi Emperor of China dies. |
| - 1721 Kangxi Emperor bans Christian Missionaries because of Pope Clement XI's decree. |
| - 1726 enormous Chinese encyclopedia Gujin Tushu Jicheng of over 100 million written Chinese characters in over 800,000 pages is printed in 60 different copies using copper-based Chinese movable type printing. |
| - 1735 - 99 64 Qianlong Emperor of China oversaw a huge expansion in territory. |
| - 1736 Qing Dynasty Chinese court painters recreate Zhang Zeduan's classic panoramic painting, Along River During Qingming Festival. |
| - 1773 East India Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle Opium into China. |
- Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese Shogun |
| - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist, playwright |
| - Liang Desheng, Chinese poet & writer |
| - Kamo no Mabuchi, Japanese philosopher |
| - Sugita Genpaku, Japanese scholar & translator |
| - Pu Songling, Chinese short story writer |
| - Ueda Akinari, Japanese writer |
| - Yuan Mei, Chinese painter, poet, essayist |
| - Kong Shangren, Chinese dramatist, poet |
| - Wang Yun, Chinese playwright, poet |
| - Cao Xueqin, Chinese writer |
| - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese scholar, writer & politician |
| - (mid-18th century) Dream of Red Chamber (authorship attributed to Cao Xueqin), one of most famous Chinese novels |
| - Pan Lei, Chinese scholar & mathematician |
| - Dai Zhen, Chinese mathematician, geographer, phonologist & philosopher |
| - Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock printer |
| - Gai Qi, Chinese painter, poet |
| - Nishikawa Sukenobu, Japanese printmaker, teacher |
| - Jiang Tingxi, Chinese artist & scholar |
| - Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese printmaker & painter |
| - Yuan Mei, Chinese poet, scholar & artist |
| - Li Ruzhen, Chinese novelist |
| - 1776 Ugetsu monogatari (Tales of Moonlight & Rain) by Japanese Ueda Akinari |
| - 1771 enormous Putuo Zongcheng Temple complex of Chengde, China is completed |
| - 1773 - 82 9 Qing Dynasty huge literary compilation Siku Quanshu |
| - 1748 Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), popular Japanese puppet play, composed |
| - 1703 Love Suicides at Sonezaki by Japanese Chikamatsu first performed |
| - 1755 tallest wooden Bodhisattva statue in world is erected at Puning Temple, Chengde, China. |
| - Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philosopher & scholar |
| - 1787 Kansei Reforms instituted in Japan by Matsudaira Sadanobu. |
| - 1796 - 1804 8 White Lotus Rebellion against Manchu Dynasty in China. |
| - 1767 Burmese conquered Ayutthaya kingdom. |
| - 1778 Tây Sơn Dynasty established in Vietnam. |
| - 1769 - 70 1 James Cook explores & maps New Zealand & Australia |
| - 1770 James Cook claims East Coast of Australia (New South Wales) for Great Britain. |
| - 1778 James Cook becomes first European on Hawaiian Islands. |
| - 1775 John Harrison H4 & Larcum Kendall K1 Marine chronometers are used to measure longitude by James Cook on his Second voyage (1772–1775) |
| - 1795 Kamehameha I of Island of Hawaii defeats Oahuans at Battle of Nu'uanu. |
| - 1768 - 79 11 James Cook mapped boundaries of Pacific Ocean & discovered many Pacific Islands |
| - 1788 First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney. |
| - 1799 assassination of 14th Tu'i Kanokupolu, Tukuʻaho, plunges Tonga into half a century of civil war. |
| - 1718 City of New Orleans founded by French in North America |
| - 1718 Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is killed by Robert Maynard in a North Carolina inlet on inner side of Ocracoke Island |
| - 1769 Spanish missionaries established first of 21 missions in California. |
| - 1776 United States Declaration of Independence adopted by Continental Congress in Philadelphia. |
| - 1781 Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles. |
| - 1789 George Washington elected President of United States. Served until 1797. |
| - 1792 New York Stock & Exchange Board founded. |
| - 1785 - 95 10 Northwest Indian War between United States & Native Americans |
| - 1787 United States Constitution was written in Philadelphia & submitted to states for ratification. |
| - Samuel Adams, American statesman |
| - Robert Gray, American revolutionary, merchant, & explorer |
| - Nathan Hale, American patriot, executed for espionage by British |
| - Alexander Hamilton, American statesman |
| - Patrick Henry, American statesman |
| - John Jay, American statesman |
| - John Paul Jones, American naval commander |
| - 1741 Vitus Bering discovered Alaska |
| - 1752 Lightning rod invented by Benjamin Franklin |
| - Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haitian revolutionary leader |
| - Paul Revere, American revolutionary leader & silversmith |
| - Betsy Ross, American flag maker |
| - George Mason, American statesman |
| - Michikinikwa, Miami chief & warrior |
| - James Madison, American statesman |
| - Benjamin Franklin, American leader, scientist & statesman |
| - Aaron Burr, American statesman |
| - 1791 Rights of Man by Thomas Paine |
| - John Singleton Copley, American painter |
| - 1787 - 8 1 Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, & James Madison |
| - 1755 - 63 8 Great Upheaval, forced population transfer of French Acadian population from Nova Scotia & New Brunswick |
| - 1791 - 1804 13 Haitian Revolution |
| - 1793 Upper Canada bans slavery. |
| - 1793 largest yellow fever epidemic in American history killed as many as 5,000 people in Philadelphia—roughly 10% of population.[15] |
| - 1785 Automatic flour mill invented by American Oliver Evans |
| - 1784 Bifocals invented by Benjamin Franklin |
| - Gilbert Stuart, American painter |
| - Elihu Palmer, American deist |
| - Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary Army |
| - Pontiac, Ottawa chief & warrior |
| - 1788 New Hampshire ratifies United States Constitution as 9th state, & by terms of Article VII it is in effect. |
| - 1791 Constitutional Act (Or Canada Act) creates two provinces of Upper & Lower Canada in British North America. |
| - 1795 Pinckney's Treaty between United States & Spain granted Mississippi Territory to US. |
| - Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian revolutionary |
| - 1736 Europeans discovered rubber – discovery was made by Charles-Marie de la Condamine while on expedition in South America. It was named in 1770 by Joseph Priestly |
| - Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist |
| - 1788 - 9 1 Inconfidência Mineira, conspiracy against colonial authorities in Brazil. |
| - 1780 Outbreak of indigenous rebellion led by Túpac Amaru II in Peru. |