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| 1750 | Death of Jean-Sebastien Bach | |
| 1754 | Birth of Louis XVI | |
| 1756 | Birth of Mozart | |
| 1759 | Death of Georg Friedrich Haendel | |
| 1763 |
Treaty of Paris. This ends the "7 years war" between France and England. France will let England some colonies in America and India |
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| Death of Louis Racine | ||
| 1765 | Birth of Nicephore Niepce, father of photography | |
| 1768 | Birth of Chateaubriand | |
| 1769 | Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| Birth of duc de Wellington | ||
| 1770 | Birth of Ludwig van Beethoven | |
| 1772 | ||
| 1773 | Birth of Robert Surcouf | |
| 1774 | Death of Louis XV | |
| 1769 | James Watt, Scottish ingeneer patents his steam machine | |
| 1775 | ||
| 1776 | Independance declaration of United States | |
| 1778 | Death of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| Death of Voltaire | ||
| 1779 | Death of James Cook | |
| 1782 | Birth of Niccolo Paganini | |
| 1783 | Treaty of Versailles. England accepts the independance of teh United States. | |
| Birth of Stendhal | ||
| 1784 | Invention of the automatic weaving loom by Edmund Cartwright | |
| Promulgation of the Wash Act | ||
| Death of Diderot | ||
| 1786 | ||
| 1788 | Foundation of the "Société des amis des Noirs" (Society of the friends of the Blacks) in France. This was the first anti slavery association. | |
| 1789 | French revolution | |
| Declaration of the Human Rights | ||
| Birth of James Fenimore Cooper (author of "The Last Mohican") | ||
| 1790 | Birth of Leopold I, first king of Belgium | |
| 1791 | Slaves Insurrection in Saint-Domingue | |
| Death of Mozart | ||
| 1792 | Birth of Rossini | |
| 1793 | Execution of Louis XVI | |
| 1794 | ||
| 1795 | Napoleonean wars (beginning of) | |
| 1797 | ||
| 1798 | ||
| 1799 | Birth of Honore de Balzac | |
| Death of George Washington |
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