| 1756-1763 | Seven Years War |
| 1757 |
Battle of Plassey: Robert
Clive defeats the Nawab of Bengal |
| 1760-1820 |
reign of George III |
| 1762-96 |
reign of Catherine the
Great |
| 1763 |
Treaty of Paris (British
gains: Cape Breton, Floridas, Quebec, trans-Appalachian lands, Grenada,
St. Vincent, Dominica and Tobago, Senegal) Royal Proclamation |
| 1764 |
Rousseau, The Social Contract |
| 1764-73 |
Jesuit expulsions |
| 1765 |
the Stamp Act (tariffs on sugar, teas, paint, lead, and paper follow) |
| 1768-71 |
Cook's first voyage |
| 1770 |
Bengal famine |
| 1772-75 |
Cook's second voyage |
| 1773 |
Boston Tea Party |
| 1774-92 |
reign of Louis XVI |
| 1774 |
Quebec Act: recognizes
Catholicism and French civil law India Act: establuishes the office of governor general |
| 1774-85 |
Warren
Hastings, governor general of Bengal |
| 1775-83 |
American War of
Independence |
| 1776-79 |
Cook's third voyage |
| 1776 |
Paine, Common Sense Smith, Wealth of Nations |
| 1778 |
France enters the America
war |
| 1780-90 |
reign of Joseph II |
| 1781 |
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason |
| 1783 |
Treaties of Versailles
and Paris Russia annexes the Crimea |
| 1784 |
Government of India Act:
sets up a Board of Control to oversee the East India Co; separates
trading and governing operations of the company |
| 1785 |
Warren Hastings trial |
| 1786-1797 |
reign of Frederick William |
| 1786 |
London Committee for the
Abolition of Slavery established |
| 1787 |
Society for Effecting the
Abolition of the Slave Trade established establishment of Sierra Leone American Constitutional Convention |
| 1788 |
Hastings impeachment trial establishment of New South Wales |
| 1789 |
oubreak of the French
Revolution: summoning of the Estates General, storming of the Bastille,
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen... |
| 1790 |
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| 1791 |
Paine, Rights of Man outbreak of slave rebellion on Saint Domingue |
| 1791-1802 |
Haitian Revolution |
| 1792 |
declaration
of the French Republic outbreak of the War of the First Coalition (France v. Austria, Prussia, and later Britain) Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women |
| 1793 |
execution of Louis XIV Britain enters war against France British embassy to China Lord Cornwallis' Permanent Settlement in India |
| 1794 |
the French end slavery in
their colonies |
| 1798 |
United Irish Rebellion French invasion of Egypt |
| 1799 |
Napoleon takes power in
France |
| 1801 |
Act of Union creates the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| 1802 |
Napoleon named Consul for
life Maharaja Ranjit Singh established the Sikh kingdom |
| 1803 |
Louisiana Purchase |
| 1804 |
Napoleon crowns himself
emperor of France Haitian independence |
| 1804-06 |
Lewis and Clark expedition |
| 1805 |
Battle of Trafalgar |
| 1807 |
Napoleon defeats the
Third Coalition Great Britain abolishes the slave trade |
| 1808-14 |
Peninsular War (Iberia) |
| 1808-26 |
rebellions for
independence of Spanish America |
| 1812-15 |
War of 1812 |
| 1813 |
East India Charter Act |
| 1815 |
Battle of Waterloo Britain annexes the Cape Colony |
| 1817 |
Seminole War |
| 1819 |
acquisition of Singapore Peterloo massacre |
| 1820-30 |
reign of George IV |
| 1820s |
British settlers move
into Cape Colony |
| 1823 | Antislavery Society formed Monroe Doctrine |
| 1829 |
Catholic Emancipation |
| 1830 |
French occupation of
Algeria |