1700-1800 -Dual Credit History Technology Project #3- Brianna Belcher

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    1700-1800

    Technology Project #3

  • 1701

    1701
    Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.

  • 1702

    1702
    Denmark, Russia and Poland challenge Sweden's hegemony in the Baltic Sea area due to the recent death of Sweden's king. Soon the Great Northern War begins. Charles XII, Sweden's young new king, demonstrates his power by leading an army into Poland. He routes a combined German and Polish force and putting someone on the throne in Poland, a king of his choosing (Stanislaus Leszczynski, who becomes Stanislaus I).

  • 1707

    1707
    Mount Fuji erupts, causing the ash to float down on the city of Edo sixty miles to the north.

  • 1712

    1712
    The death of six whites and the execution of twelve slaves were a result from a slave rebellion in New York.

  • 1713

    1713
    Britain and Spain sign a 30-year contract, where Britain is to have a monopoly in supplying Spain with slaves for the Americas.

  • 1720

    1720
    The plague arrives at the port of Marseilles, France; which is the last of the great bubonic plagues in Western and Central Europe.

  • 1736

    1736
    Nader is crowned King of Iran.

  • 1744

    1744
    France invades Belgium.

  • 1753

    1753
    Parliament passes the Jewish Naturalization Act, on July 1 in Great Britain. This ends discrimination against Jews.

  • 1783

    1783
    King George has declared the thirteen colonies "free and independent." France and Spain also sign articles of peace with Britain. In Paris, delegates from the colonies sign the Treaty of Peace.