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The Seven Years War
The SEven Years War was the war between Britian and France. It was the first global war in modern history and Britian left in great victory in 1763. -
Admiral Byng
On this event Admiral Byng faces a firing squad because he engaged the French in battle and then he was convinced that he isn't powerful enought to save the island. -
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British History
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World History
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Battle of Plassey
This battle took place between Siraj Ud. Daulah. The defeat of Daulah was destroyed by theFrench and then led to the province of Bengal passing. This was an im[portant event that helps with the establishment of British. -
The painter Joshua Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds was an English painter that specialized in portraits in the 18th century. He was one of the founders and president of the Royal Academy. -
A comet returns
IN 1680 the first comet appeare din the sky. Edmund Halley was the one who spotted this and was rewarded two years later after it happened. -
The Portugese expel the Jesuits
This mission was completely led by the Portugal. The Jesuits often made enmeies by protecting the Indians against the high demands of the colonists. -
Tacky leads a slave rebillion
This event was the largest importance of many slaves upcomings in the British Indies in the 18th century. During this period of time many slaves attacked people's crops and plantations to get sugar because they were so poor. They even killed 60 whites to get to these plantations. -
Joseph Haydn
He was a very famous writer especially in the era of all the classical music. In gospel music, he is the master of the cantata. He spends alot of his time with proffessional musicians and starts to create some ideas for his work there. -
The End of the Seven Years War
In the month of Feburary, two peace treatie swere signed. The first was agreed by Paris between Britian, France and Spain. The othe one was between Austria and Prussia. In this process of the peace treaty being signed, Britian became dominantly powerful in the northern part of the continent. -
The arresting of John Wilkes
He was a member of parliament and journalist, and was arrested for the criticism of George's paper called The North Briton. After his release, manty people wanted to get him released in whic they formed a crowd and many were killed by the troops. -
The French expedition
The French were the first to record the existence of islands. They found acolony at Port Louis on East Falkland in 1764. Th next year under the ruling of John Byron, they established a place at Port Egmont on the small Saunders island. This was where the start of their settlement initiated. -
Riots uprise as a result of taxed imports
A man named Charles Townshed raised taxes from North American colonists on specific imports including lead, tea, paint..etc. The whole purpose with that happening was for colonists to have more defense against the French. -
Th discovery of printmaking
In 1768, a French artist named Jean Baptiste, disovered a way of achieving tone on a copper plate without doing so much work. He sprinkled powder on to the machine and adding heat to the plate of the acid. -
Boston Tea Party
In 1770 taxes on imports had been established except for tea. In 1773 colonists dumped chests of tea from the East India Company in to the Boston harbour and protested against this movement. As a result, American colonists had alot of tension with the British government. -
Investigation of the slave trade
A man named William Wilberforce became the parliamentary spokesman and there was the creation of a big support system of the slave trade. This petition was signed between 60,000 and 100,000. -
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Emily Bronte
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Emily Bronte's Education
In this year the four eldest daughters Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, and Emily attended the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge. This school was for daughters who were poor, like a charity school in which their family couldn't afford the best school. -
Emily Bronte's sisters death
The school that Emily and her sisters attended was full of kids, in which some children were getting ver ill. A lot of the children were very poor and din't have the money to get help especially with the certain conditions they were staying in. Later Emily's two sisters Maria and Elizabeth died from a combination of tuberculosis and typhoid. -
Emily's move to a different school
Emily went with her sister Charlotte to study languages at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels. Unfortunately, her stay wasn't ver long at the school due to another tragic death in her family happeneing whcih was her aunt. She returned home in 1842. -
Emily started writing Wuthering heights
Emily began to write the book Wuthering Heights in this year and finished it in June 1846. When people started to read the book, many were offended by its dialogue and how violent it was in some of the vents but later on it was revealed and dicovered that it wasm written by a woman. -
The publication of her book
This year was when Emily Bronte's book Wuthering Heights was published. -
The death of Branwell(Enily's brother)
Her brother worked as a tutor at Thorp Green Hall where his sister Anne. in 1845 he returned to Haworth Parsonage and later he eventually became an alcoholic. he came home many nights drunk and one day Emily was going up to see him, he died. -
Emily Bronte's death
On October 1st, during the funeral service of her brother's birth, she started to have symptoms indicating she wasn't feeling well but she didn't want top go to a doctor. Two monmths later she was stillhaving the same conditions so she told her family to call the doctor bu then it was too late, and shortly she died. She was only thirty years old.
