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1773–1775: Pugachev's Rebellion, the largest peasant revolt in Russian history. 1773: East India Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle opium into China. 1773: 16 December, the Boston Tea Party. 1775: John Harrison H4 and Larcum Kendall K1 marine chronometers are used to measure longitude by James Cook on his second voyage (1772–1775).
Purgatory or promised land? : French emigres in Philadelphia and their perceptions of America during the 1790s (thesis/dissertation). 1992. Taylor, Alan. "The Art of Hook & Snivey": Political Culture in Upstate New York during the 1790s." The Journal of American History, Vol. 79, No. 4 (Mar., 1993), pp. 1371–1396. Thorn, Jennifer J.
April 13 – John Mitchell, colonial American physician and botanist (d. 1768) April 14 – Lord John Murray, British general and politician (d. 1787) April 22. Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy (d. 1762) Eleazar Wheelock, American President of Dartmouth College (d. 1779) April 26. Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, French writer (d. 1780)
February 23 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Spanktown, part of the Forage War; March 5 – Thomas Wharton Jr. is sworn in as the first president of Pennsylvania. March 8 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Pun Hill, part of the Forage War; March 21 – Thomas Johnson is sworn as the first governor of Maryland.
From top left, clockwise: Atlantic slave trade and abolitionism gain momentum over Europe and the Americas, as bans began to be enacted in countries such as Denmark-Norway (1803), the United Kingdom (1807), and Union States of the United States (1808) in the subsequent decade, following movements and upheavals of awareness at this period; Now-iconic Peking opera was conceived after the Four ...
1701 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1701st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 701st year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1701, the ...
January 8 – President of the U.S. George Washington gives the first State of the Union address, in New York City. February 1 – In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
The 1700s decade ran from January 1, 1700, to December 31, 1709. The decade is marked by a shift in the political structure of the Indian subcontinent , and the decline of the Mughal Empire . Millennium