1750
Coffee is planted in Sulawesi.
1750
There are over 100 sugar refineries in England, yielding significant tax for the Government.
1750
China proclaims Tibet as a protectorate.
1750
A typhus epidemic sweeps through London killing thousands.
1750
Porcelain factory at Dresden accused of producing pieces slowly to keep prices high.
1750
Jingdezhen export porcelain begins to be sent unpainted to Guangzou for enameling and decoration so merchants could supervise patterns.
1751 - 1793
John Webber - the official artist on board James Cook's third voyage of discovery well known for his paintings of Hawaii and Alaska.
1751
Slave Revolts in Haiti.
1751
Sugar cane is introduced to Louisiana by Jesuit missionaries.
1751
William Hogarth paints Beer Street and Gin Lane showing the evil consequences of alcohol. The Government addressed the problem with Gin Acts in 1736 and 1751 to try to control sales.
1752
Lightning rod is invented by Benjamin Franklin.
1753
Carl Linnaeus gives chocolate the binomial classification of Theobroma cacao (literally 'chocolate drink of the gods').
1753
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, born in USA, campaigns for an improvement in public hygiene in Bavaria.
1753
Vincennes porcelain factory in France is sold and Louis XV takes a one third share. The establishment is granted title of royal manufactory.
1754
First use of copper plates to print cottons by Francis Nixon of Drumcondra near Dublin.
1755
An article in The Connoisseur magazine says that collecting china is fit for men “of delicate make and silky constitution” only.
1756 - 1791
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
1756
Joseph Black finds "fixed air" (carbon dioxide) can be produced by heating chemicals.
1756
Wiltshire born Quaker businessman Joseph Fry starts making his own chocolate powder at a factory in Bristol.
1756
The Douro Valley in Portugal is established as a protected area for growing Port wine.
1756 - 1763
The Seven Years War. Britain, Prussia and Hanover carry out scattered conflicts around the world against France, Austria, Russia, Spain, the Mughal Empire and Sweden. Britain gains French Canada, Spanish Florida, Bengal, Senegal and some Caribbean islands and removed French influence in India. Spain gains Louisiana and Cuba and Prussia becomes a more powerful central European state.
1756
Porcelain Factory at Sèvres established.
1757 - 1827
William Blake.
1757
The combination of Criollo and Forastero trees in Trinidad generates a third variety of cacao tree known as Trinitario.
1757
Britain takes over Bengal and its opium growing districts after the Battle of Plassey. Opium traffic begins its shift to British dominance.
1757 - 1858
British East India Company rule in India.
1757
Siraj-ud-Daula, Nawab of Bengal, challenges the power of the East India Company and attacks Calcutta consigning captives to a dungeon.
1757
Robert Clive leads a force against the Nawab of Bengal and defeats him at the Battle of Plassey, cementing the position of the East India Company.
1758
Britain takes Senegal from the French.
1758 - 1759
James Cook learns hydrography in Nova Scotia and helps to chart the Saint Lawrence River.
1759
Voltaire publishes Candide.
1759 - 1805
Friedrich von Schiller.
1759
British inventor John Harrison invents the No. 1 'Sea Watch', which solves the problem of fixing longitude at sea.
1759
The Guinness brewery opens at St James's Gate in Dublin.
1759
Porcelain factory at Meissens destroyed during the Seven Years' War
1759
Porcelain Factory established in Spain under Charles III on his accession. Workmen he brings with him from Naples staff the factory.
1760 - 1849
Hokusai.
1760
Nutmegs in London sell for 90s a pound (the equivalent of around £600 in 2012).
1760
Pierre Lorillard founds the Lorillard Tobacco Company In New York City, to make pipe tobacco, cigars and snuff. It is the oldest US tobacco company.
1760
The Chinese throne formally confirms the Canton system as established to regulate Sino-Western commerce and restrict it to the city of Canton (Guangzhou). The system persists, with various permutations, until 1842.
1760
Over 500,000 beaver hats are exported from British ports.
1760
Louis XV buys entirety of Sèvres factory.
1761
John Hill links nasal cancer with snuff.
1761
Secret of hard-paste porcelain is sold to the French by Peter Anthony of the Frankenthal factory in Germany. Though kaolin clay not readily available in France yet.
1762
Jean Jacques Rousseau writes his political treatise The Social Contract - a major work in political philosophy.
1762
Britain occupies Cuba and exploits its timber resources.
1762 - 1769
A Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.
1763
John Awsitter writes An Essay on the Effects of Opium, considered as a Poison.
1763
Stepan Glotov discovers Kodiak Island.
1763
The Treaty of Paris gives British timber companies the rights to cut trees in the Yucatan, a rich resource for logwood and mahogany.
1763
The Treaty of Paris. Following the Seven Years' War, the French presence in India is reduced to enclaves in Pondicherry, Mahe, Karikal, Yanam and Chandernagar.
1763
Grenada is taken over from France by the British.
1763 - 1767
James Cook surveys the coasts on Newfoundland.
1764
James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny, a multi-spool spinning frame.
1764
UK cotton imports soar to 1,755,580 kg.
1764
Britain takes control of Bihar and Orissa and its rich opium trade.
1764
The Battle of Buxar. British East India Company forces defeat the combined forces of Awadh, Bengal and the Mughal Empire.
1764 - 1766
John Byron circumnavigates the world on HMS Dolphin. He surveys Tierra del Fuego and claims the Falkland Islands for Britain in 1765.
1765
James Baker starts manufacturing chocolate in Massachusetts.
1765
Richard Hennessey establishes the Hennessey Cognac business in France.
1765
British Stamp Act introduced to tax colonies which sparked riots in America and was repealed in 1766.
1765
Kaolin discovered in France at the quarries of St Yrieix near Limoges.
1765
All French porcelain factories except Sèvres prohibited from using gold in their decorations.
1766 - 1769
The First Anglo-Mysore War is inconclusive.
1766 - 1768
Samuel Wallis circumnavigates the world on HMS Dolphin. He claims Tahiti for Britain.
1766 - 1769
Philip Carteret circumnavigates the world on HMS Swallow. He discovers Pitcairn Island and the Carteret Islands.
1766 - 1769
Louis Antoine de Bougaineville circumnavigates the globe, visiting Tahiti and naming the Bougainevillea. He brings Pacific Islander, Ahu-Toru back to Paris.
1767
The Townshend Revenue Act places high taxes on many goods supplied to the American colonies.
1767
Peter Poivre (Peter Pepper) is Governor of Mauritius and tries planting American peppers there, as well as nutmegs and cloves stolen from the Dutch.
1767 - 1776
James Rennell completes the first geographic survey of Bengal.
1767
The Survey of India is established to map the subcontinent and to record resources and transport networks.
1767
Josiah Spode establishes his pottery business in Stoke-on-Trent.
1767
Many cases of what was known as Devonshire Colic occur in England and are traced back to the use of lead in lining cider presses.
1768
Richard Arkwright patents the Water Frame, building on earlier inventions and harnessing water power to drive the spinning frame.
1768 - 1771
James Cook's 1st Voyage around the world, on HMS Endeavour with naturalist Joseph Banks. They observe the transit of Venus from Tahiti, map the two islands of New Zealand and the East coast of Australia.
1768
William Cookworthy founds a porcelain factory in Plymouth after discovering kaolin in Cornwall. He takes out a patent for ‘the sole making and vending of porcelain so manufactured’.
1769
José de Galvez establishes the Spanish province of Alte California.
1769 - 1770
After being separated from her French husband for twenty years, Peruvian Isabella Godin sets out from Ecuador, crosses the Andes and travels along the Amazon to be reunited with him.
1769 - 1771
Samuel Hearne sets out from Churchill, Manitoba, to explore Northern Canada and discovers the Great Slave Lake.
1769
The first self-propelled land vehicle is invented by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot.
1769
Gordon's Gin first produced in London by Scotsman Alexander Gordon.
1769
James Watt improves on the steam engine developed by Thomas Newcomen.
1770 - 1827
Ludwig van Beethoven.
1770
British naval Hydrography pioneer Alexander Dalrymple publishes his Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean. This work greatly enhanced the belief in the existence of an unknown continent (Australia) and inspired Captain Cook's voyage to discover the continent.
1770 - 1850
William Wordsworth.
1770
The Towshend Act is repealed but the tax on tea sold to American colonies remains.
1770
Demuth tobacco shop, America's oldest, opens in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1770 - 1850
William Wordsworth, English poet, believes the Industrial Revolution is an "outrage done to nature".
1771
Captain James Cook's Journals of his first voyage are published on his return from the Pacific Ocean.
1771 - 1832
Walter Scott.
1771 - 1773
James Bruce traces the Nile from the Mediterranean to the source of the Blue Nile.
1772
The East India Company establishes Calcutta as the capital of its Indian territories.
1772 - 1775
James Cook's 2nd Voyage around the world, on HMS Resolution. Cook becomes the first European to cross the Antarctic circle, circumnavigates Antarctica without seeing it, revisits New Zealand and discovers Tonga, Easter Island, New Caledonia and Vanuatu. He claims South Georgia for Britain. The Pacific Islander, Omai, is brought back to London.
1772
Joseph Banks sails to the Hebrides, Orkneys and Iceland, having declined to go on Cook's 2nd circumnavigation. From this date, Banks starts to send plant hunters around the world - sending Francis Masson to the Cape, the West Indies and Spain; Allan Cunningham to South America and Australia; James Bowie to the Cape; William Roxburgh and Anton Hove to India; Robert Brown, David Burton and George Caley to Australia; and Mungo Park to the East Indies and West Africa.
1772
Cookworthy’s manufacturing of ‘hard paste’ porcelain ceases.
1773
Phillis Wheatley becomes the first African American poet to be published with Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.
1773
The Boston Tea Party - British tea is thrown into the harbour as a protest against unfair taxation.
1773
Following the Boston Tea Party, coffee becomes America's favourite beverage.
1773
The East India Company initiates a government opium monopoly in its Indian territories.
1773
Constantine Phipps explores the Arctic and describes the polar bear. Horatio Nelson is a midshipman on the voyage.
1773
William Bartram, American naturalist, sets out on a five year journey through the US South East to describe the country.
1774
Joseph Priestley isolates the gas oxygen calling it 'dephlogisticated air'.
1774
Samuel Hearne establishes a trading post at Fort Cumberland, Saskatchewan for the Hudson's Bay Company.
1774
Death of Louis XV. He is succeeded by his grandson, Louis XVI.
1774
British Parliament pass a series of laws in response to the Boston Tea Party, including the closure of the port of Boston until reparation was made and British control over the Massachusetts legislature. These were known as the Intolerable Acts and provoked rebellion.
1774 - 1776
De Anza and Garces explore California, pioneering the Mojave Road to the Pacific and sighting San Francisco for the first time.
1775 - 1851
Joseph M. W. Turner.
1775 - 1817
Jane Austen.
1775 - 1782
The First Anglo-Maratha War ends in British defeat.
1775 - 1783
The American Revolutionary War.
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The first shots are fired at Lexington and Concord, as British troops are forced to retreat to Boston. George Washington assumes command of the Continental Army.
1775
English scientist Percival Pott finds that coal causes a high level of cancer in chimney sweeps.
1775
The introduction of effective steam engines makes it possible to site saw mills away from water.
1775
The Assembly of Virginia encourages the cultivation of cotton, hemp and flax.
1776
The Wealth of Nations is published by Adam Smith which denounced protectionism and called for free trade.
1776 - 1837
John Constable.
1776
British tobacco taxes and debts to merchants in London help fuel the American Revolution.
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Declaration of Independence is made by the thirteen states in Philadelphia.
1776 - 1779
James Cook's 3rd Voyage around the world, on HMS Resolution. Cook returns Omai to Tahiti, visits Tonga and New Zealand, searches for the North West Passage and discovers Hawaii. Cook is killed on Hawaii.
1777
Robert Gordon explores the interior of the Cape and discovers Orange River.
1778
Joseph Banks suggests that the British should try growing tea in India.
1778
France recognises the American colonies and supports their war against Britain.
1778
A fur trader named Peter Pond is the first European to record bituminous sands at Athabasca. The bitumen was used by the First Nation people to caulk their canoes.
1779
Coffee is planted in Costa Rica.
1779
Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule, which could work 1,320 spindles on a frame.
1779
The North West Company is founded in Montreal and competes with the Hudson's Bay Company.
1779
Vineyards are planted at San Juan Capistrano in what is now Orange County, California. It rapidly becomes a major wine producing region.
1779
Joseph Banks recommends Botany Bay as a suitable place for a penal colony.
1779
Johann Peter Frank advocates governmental responsibility in Germany for clean water, sewage systems, rubbish disposal, food inspection and other health measures.
1780 - 1831
Carl von Clausewitz, military theorist.
1780 - 1784
The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
1780 - 1784
The Second Anglo-Mysore War is inconclusive.
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Battle of Yorktown - decisive American victory, forcing British surrender.
1781
William Herschel discovers Uranus and names it George's Star after the king.
1781
The Bank of North America is chartered.
1781
Richard Arkwright opens the first steam driven cotton mill in Manchester.
1782
Spanish Missions are now established in San Diego, Monterey, San Francisco and Santa Barbara.
17821130
Britain recognises American independence.
1783
The hot air balloon is invented by the Montgolfier brothers.
1783
Dominica becomes a British colony and a rich source of sugar cane.
1783
The Treaty of Paris marks the formal end to the American Revolutionary War and the independence of the thirteen colonies as the United States of America.
1783
The first steamboat is invented by Marquis Claude Francois de Jouffroy d'Abbans.
1783 - 1801
William Pitt the Younger is British Prime Minister.
1784
In the UK, tea tax is dramatically reduced encouraging it to become more popular.
1784 - 1785
Sailing on the Empress of China, Samuel Shaw opens up the Old China Trade between China and America, trading tea, porcelain, silk and other commodities.
1784
Slave revolts in Dominica.
1784 - 1789
Thomas Jefferson serves as a diplomat in France and gains an interest in viticulture.
1784
Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
1785 - 1851
John James Audubon.
1785
Edward Cartwright invents the power loom.
1785
Publication of Memoires du Baron de Tott, which describes life in the Ottoman Empire and describes recreational opium smoking.
1785
James Hanna sails from Macao to the Pacific Northwest to trade in furs.
1785
The King George's Sound Company is formed to exploit the maritime fur trade.
1785
Thomas Perkins & Co. trades with China, dealing in furs and opium.
1785 - 1803
Increases in UK Excise Duty causes bankruptcy amongst distillers. Spirits are smuggled in to avoid these duties.
1785 - 1788
La Perouse sails from Brest to Chile, Hawaii, Alaska, California, Macau, Manila, Japan and Kamchatka, before arriving in Australia, only to find Britain's first fleet already establishing a colony there. He disappeared on his return voyage.
1786
Peter Legaux plants European vines in Pennsylvania.
1786
Britain assumes control of British Honduras.
1786
The London Committee for the Abolition of Slavery is established.
1786
Francis Light takes control of Penang, off the coast of Malaya, and establishes a British trading settlement there, with a strong trade in peppers.
1786 - 1788
James Colnett leads an expedition to explore the North West Passage and to capture sea otter pelts.
1786
Prime Minister William Pitt approves the idea of founding a colony in Australia using convicts.
1787 - 1848
Gaetano Donizetti.
1787
Caroline Herschel receives recognition for her contribution to astronomy.
1787 - 1793
Robert Gray twice sails to the Pacific Northwest to collect furs.
1787
Publication of the Annals of Agriculture by Arthur Young.
1787 - 1789
William Bligh leads the first (unsuccessful) breadfruit voyage of HMS Bounty, which aims to translocate food crops from the South Seas to the West Indies. Following a mutiny, Bligh is forced to navigate a small row-boat from Otaheite to Timor (3618 miles). Christian establishes a colony on Pitcairn Island.
1787 - 1789
Alexander Mackenzie explores the Canadian North West for the North West Company. He reaches Lake Athabasca and then proceeds to the Arctic Ocean via what will later be called the Mackenzie River.
1787
Publication of the Annals of Agriculture by Arthur Young.
1788 - 1824
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron).
1788
Haiti supplies half the world's coffee, but production is based on slave labour.
1788 - 1826
American traders dominate the fur trade between the Pacific Northwest and China.
1788
France is hit by two years of bad harvests.
1788
Australia's first state, New South Wales, is created.
1788
The First Fleet arrives in New South Wales and chooses to settle in Sydney.
1788
Joseph Banks founds the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior parts of Africa (The Africa Association).
1789
Olaudah Equiano publishes his memoirs to expose the realities of the slave trade. Equiano purchased his freedom and went on to become a pioneer of the British abolitionist movement.
1789
William Hill Brown publishes the first American novel The Power of Sympathy.
1789
Alexander Mackenzie of the North West Company descends the Grand River to the Arctic Ocean.
1789
Elijah Craig uses a charred barrel to ship whiskey, giving it a caramel taste.
1789 - 1792
The Third Anglo-Mysore War saw Tipu Sultan, with French help, invading Travancore, but ultimately being defeated by British forces.
178905
Attempts to raise revenue by Louis XVI to meet the costs of French involvement on the American Revolution and other wars are thwarted by the nobility and the king convenes the Estates-General, a Parliament made of clergy, nobility and commoners.
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The French Revolution erupts when the National Assembly demands more rights for commoners. The Bastille is stormed.
1789 - 1797
George Washington is the 1st President of the United States of America.
1789 - 1794
Alessandro Malaspina sails from Spain to Montevideo and charts the coast of South America from Brazil to Tierra del Fugo, before sailing to Peru, Alaska, Manila, New Zealand and Australia.
1789
Benjamin Franklin leaves money in his will to build a fresh water pipeline to Philadelphia. However within a few years one quarter of the population dies in a yellow fever epidemic.
1789
French revolutionaries create a new public health policy.
1790
Poet George Crabbe was prescribed opium to relieve pain and continued to use it thereafter.
1790
The US Indian Intercourse Act regulates trading with Native Americans.
1790 - 1799
The bicorne hat comes into fashion.
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French Fries originated in 18th century Europe (France or Belgium). Recipes for deep-frying exceedingly thin slices of raw potato were published in La Cuisiniere Republicaine as early as 1795-1796. Directions in making French Fries appear in a document in Thomas Jefferson's hand that clearly dates from the years 1801-1809.
1790
Spanish ships capture British fur trading vessels at Nootka Sound, near Vancouver, precipitating the Nootka Crisis. Warfare was avoided by a free trade agreement.
1790
Daniel Houghton is sent to explore the Niger River and locate Timbuktu. After 3 years of difficult exploration he dies of starvation.
1791
Count Rumford is recognised for his invention of the coffee percolator.
1791
Start of a slave rebellion led by Toussaint l'Ouverture in San Domingue which overthrows French colonial forces and establishes the independent state of Haiti in 1804.
1791
Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was prescribed opium to relieve rheumatism and became addicted to it.
1791
South African grapes are successfully cultivated in Australia.
1791
Louis XVI is captured by revolutionary forces as he attempts to flee.
1791
Vermont is added as a state of the Union.
1791 - 1793
William Bligh leads the second (successful) breadfruit voyage from Tahiti to the West Indies. Breadfruit remains popular in the Caribbean today.
1791 - 1795
George Vancouver circumnavigates the world, spending much time exploring what is now Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska. He confirmed that the Northwest passage did not exist at the latitudes supposed. Archibald Menzies accompanies him.
1791 - 1793
D'Entrecasteaux searches for the missing La Perouse expedition exploring the Pacific.
1791 - 1811
The First Bank of the United States is chartered as a central bank by the US Congress.
1792 - 1868
Gioachino Rossini.
1792 - 1827
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
1792
The American currency is newly defined by a bimetallic silver-gold standard.
1792 - 1797
The War of the First Coalition is an attempt by Britain, Spain, the Dutch, Prussia and the Holy Roman Empire to contain Revolutionary France. It fails as Napoleon Bonaparte and other French generals defeat the Coalition. France gains Belgium and territories west of the Rhine.
1792
Kentucky is added as a state of the Union.
1792
Sierra Leone falls under British control.
1792 - 1793
Alexander Mackenzie leads the Peace River expedition from Alberta to the Pacific Ocean. It is the first transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico.
1792 - 1794
George Macartney leads an unsuccessful British Embassy to China. George Staunton publishes a detailed account of life in China which fascinates the West.
1792
The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1792
John Pearson of Newburyport, Massachusetts, invents pilot bread, a hard biscuit which becomes popular with sailors.
1793
Moses Brown and Samuel Slater establish the first cotton mill in the US in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
1793
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin, to help speed up the seperation of cotton fibre and cotton seeds (which can be used to produce oil).
1793
Hannah Slater is granted a patent for cotton sewing thread.
1793
Alexander Mackenzie of the North West Company travels overland to the Pacific.
1793
The war with France leads to whisky gaining greater popularity in the UK over French brandy.
1793
Louis XVI is executed by guillotine and the Reign of Terror begins. Over 20,000 people are executed including Marie Antoinette.
1793
Andre Michaux explores Kentucky and collects and describes many new plant species.
1793 - 1794
James Colnett circumnavigates the world on a whaling protection voyage, keeping an eye on French and Spanish activities.
1793
Thomas Minton & Sons pottery factory is established in Stoke-on-Trent.
1793
Porcelain factory at Sèvres receives support of the French revolutionary government despite the imprisonment of its director.
1794
Congress imposes a federal tax on tobacco.
1794
America introduces the Silver Dollar.
1794
The Jay Treaty gives Britain 'most favored nation' status in trade with the US. Britain returns some Great Lake forts to the US and a boundary is agreed in the Northeast. The American Fur Company focusses on the Mississippi Trade and the Hudson's Bay Company on Canadian trade.
1794
The French East India Company is wound up.
1794
The Whiskey Rebellion, a protest against a US federal tax on alcohol, is put down by a show of strength by the militia.
1795
Modern pencil lead is invented and is soon put in a two-part wooden casing to make it clean and easy to use.
1795 - 1821
John Keats.
1795
Johannes Beam founds what will become the Jim Beam company, selling bourbon.
1795
France takes over control of Santo Domingo.
1795
Britain captures Cape Town, but hands in back to the Dutch in 1803.
1795 - 1797
Mungo Park explores the River Niger on behalf of the Africa Association. He is the first European to see the Niger and his Travels in the Interior of Africa (1799) provokes huge interest in Africa.
1795
The Royal Navy establishes the Hydrographic Office to chart the world's oceans.
1795 - 1798
Matthew Flinders and George Bass sail to Australia and proceed to explore the Australian coast, circumnavigating Tasmania.
1795
Joseph Storrs Fry, son of the founder, invests in a Watt Steam engine to crush the cocoa beans, introducing factory processes to the business.
1796
Captain Jonathan Carnes sails from Salem, Massachusetts, to Sumatra and takes on board a cargo of peppers, initialising American trading interest in spices.
1796
Charles Vernet depicts a French dandy wearing a top hat.
1796
John Harvey & Sons is founded in Bristol and becomes a leading importer of sherry.
1796
The White Lotus Rebellion weakens the Qing Empire.
1796
Tennessee is added as a state of the Union.
1796
British Guiana becomes a British colony.
1796
British forces occupy the coast of Sri Lanka.
1796
VOC declares bankruptcy.
1797 - 1828
Franz Schubert.
1797
In The State of the Poor Frederick Eden comments on the widespread consumption of tea by the working classes.
1797
Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes Kubla Khan, possibly under the influence of opium.
1797
Henri-Louis Pernod opens an absinthe distillery in Switzerland, but moves to France by 1805.
1797 - 1801
John Adams serves as 2nd President of the USA.
1798
Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
1798 - 1863
Eugene Delacroix.
1798
Edward Jenner develops a vaccine for smallpox.
1798
British born industrialist, Samuel Slater, builds cotton mills across New England.
1798
The Dutch East India Company (VOC) is wound up.
1798 - 1802
The War of the Second Coalition ends in victory for France and Spain against the combined forces of Britain, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire, Russia and the Ottoman Empire, although Napoleon suffered setbacks at sea.
1798
Napoleon invades Egypt and gains a famous victory at the Battle of the Pyramids.
1798
Battle of the Nile - Nelson defeats the French fleet, causing France to withdraw from Egypt.
1798
George Suttor sails for Australia with fruit trees, vines and hops to provide food for the colony.
1798
Nathan Mayer von Rothschild establishes the first of the Rothschild family owned banks in Manchester. Other Rothschild banks soon emerged across Europe.
1798
Irish Rebellion. With the aim of Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform, The Society of United Irishmen led an uprising.
1799 - 1837
Alexandre Pushkin.
1799
Alessandro Volta builds the first electric battery.
1799
EIC Indian opium monopoly fully established.
1799
The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War is a decisive British victory and Tipu Sultan is killed during the Battle of Seringapatam.
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Napoleon Bonaparte returns to Paris and seizes power as the First Consul.
1799
Siege of Acre - Ottoman and British forces defeat the French.
1799 - 1804
Alexander von Humboldt explores Central and South America with Aimé Bonpland, providing the first detailed scientific account of many of the regions.
1799
The Church Missionary Society is formed.
1800
Pierre L'Enfant completes the White House in Washington, D. C.
1800
Tobacco plantations are established in Ontario.
1800
Paste smoking arises in China.
1800
The Levant Company purchases nearly half of the opium traded through Smyrna.
1800
The shako becomes a common form of military headgear.
1800
Matthias Koops experiments with using wood pulp to make paper.
1800
Napoleon founds the Bank of France.
1800
Battle of Marengo - Napoleon achieves a decisive victory over the Habsburg forces.
1800
Robert Fulton designs the Nautilus, the first successful submarine. It was commissioned by Napoleon.
1800 - 1839
US imports about 10,000 chests of Ottoman opium to China.
1800
Act of Union. Ireland was to be joined to Great Britain into a single kingdom.