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The 18th Century lasted from 1701 through 1800 in the Gregorian calendar.

Historians sometimes specifically define the 18th Century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example the "short" 18th Century may be defined as 1715-1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution,[1][2] while the "long" eighteenth century may run from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the battle of Waterloo in 1815[3] or even later.[4]

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The storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, an iconic event of the French Revolution.

Events

1700s

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Union flag of The Kingdom of Great Britain

1710s

1720s

1730s

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Qianlong Emperor

1740s

1750s

1760s

1770s

1780s

1790s

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The Haitian Revolution

Significant people

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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Samuel Johnson
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Voltaire
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George Washington
See Founding Fathers of the United States

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Main articles: Timeline of invention#18th century and Timeline_of_scientific_discoveries#18th_century
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The Spinning Jenny

References

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The Chinese Putuo Zongcheng Temple of Chengde, completed in 1771, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.
1. ^ Anderson, M. S. (1979). Historians and the Eighteenth-Century Europe, 1715–1789. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198225482. 
2. ^ Ribeiro, Aileen (2002). Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715-1789 (revised edition). Yale University Press. ISBN 0300091516. 
3. ^ Marshall, P. J. (Editor) (2001). The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford History of the British Empire). Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0199246777. , "Introduction" by P. J. Marshall, page 1
4. ^ O'Gorman, Frank (1997). The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688-1832 (The Arnold History of Britain Series). A Hodder Arnold Publication. ISBN 0340567511. 
5. ^ Porter, Roy (Editor) (2003). The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 4: The Eighteenth Century (The Cambridge History of Science). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521572436. , "The Philosopher's Beard: Women and Gender in Science" by Londra Schiebinger, pages 184-210

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Gregorian calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, for whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 via the papal bull
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century (From the Latin cent, one hundred) is one hundred consecutive years.
  • In all dating systems, centuries are essentially numbered ordinally. Thus, the first century of a time frame is "The First Century" and not "Century 0".

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Louis XIV (baptised as Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre.

He acceded to the throne on May 14 1643, a few months before his fifth birthday, but did not assume actual personal control of the
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The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal
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The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (VII of Scotland) in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians and the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange), who as a result ascended the
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Seventh Coalition:
United Kingdom
Prussia
United Netherlands
Hanover
Nassau
Brunswick
Commanders
Napoleon Bonaparte,
Michel Ney Duke of Wellington,
Gebhard von Blücher
Strength
73,000 67,000 Anglo-Allies
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18th century - 19th century - 20th century
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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

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1700 1701 1702 1703 1704
1705 1706 1707 1708 1709

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1670s  1680s  1690s  - 1700s -  1710s  1720s  1730s
1697 1698 1699 - 1700 - 1701 1702 1703

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17th century - 18th century - 19th century
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1718 1719 1720 - 1721 - 1722 1723 1724

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Anthem
Hymn of the Russian Federation


Capital
(and largest city) Moscow

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Motto
(Royal) "För Sverige - I tiden" 1
"For Sweden – With the Times" ²
Anthem
Du gamla, Du fria
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Baltic region is an ambiguous term that refers to slightly different combinations of countries in the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea.

Etymology

Baltic comes from a Proto-Indo-European root *bhel- meaning white.
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Great Northern War (1700-21) ended the Swedish Empire, leaving Russia dominant in the Baltic Sea and a major player in European politics. The war began as a coordinated attack on Sweden by the coalition in 1700 and ended in 1721 with the Treaty of Nystad and the Stockholm treaties.
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17th century - 18th century - 19th century
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War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), known as Queen Anne's War in the United States, was a major European conflict over the succession to the Spanish throne. In 1700, Charles II died and had bequeathed all of his possessions to Philip, duc d'Anjou — a grandson of
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Санкт-Петербург
Saint Petersburg
The English Embankment with Saint Isaac's Cathedral

Flag Coat of arms
Nickname
"Piter"
Location
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Tsar Peter I
Peter the Great
Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias

Reign 7 May, 1682 - 8 February, 1725
Coronation 25 June, 1682 (as Czar)
Full name Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov
Titles Czar of Russia
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Anthem
Hymn of the Russian Federation


Capital
(and largest city) Moscow

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capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital") is the center of government.
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1880s  1890s  1900s  - 1910s -  1920s  1930s  1940s
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Year 1918 (MCMXVIII
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Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 and 1707 by, respectively, the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. The Acts joined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland (previously separate states, with separate legislatures but with
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