1700-1800 williams By lillyy 1701 Grand Alliance of England, Netherlands and Austria against Louis XIV of France 1707 Death of Aurangzeb, Emperor of Mughal India at its height 1707 England and Scotland become United Kingdom of Great Britain 1709 Russians rout Swedes at Battle of Poltava - end of Swedish dominance 1713 spain grants monopoly of American slave trade to Britain 1713 Treaty of Utrecht - England gain favourable peace with France 1713 Frederick William becomes next King of Prussia 1714 queen Anne, last of the Stuarts, dies 1716 First Freemason Grand Lodge established 1716 Death of Gottfried Wilhelm Liebnitz 1720 Collapse of "South Sea Bubble" trading empire 1720 Sir Edmund Halley becomes Astronomer Royal 1750 History of slavery in Georgia Slavery begins in Georgia. 1752 The Liberty Bell by Gary B 1752 Liberty Bell. 1754 Albany Plan of Union Albany Plan of Union 1758 Treaty of Easton 1763 French & Indian War French & Indian War 1763 Treaty of Paris. 1799 Napoleon leads coup d'etat in France and sets up Consulate 1800 Haiti becomes first independent state in Latin America