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   Date  Event(s)
1675 
  • 1675: Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch.
  • 1675: King Philip's War: New England colonies vs Wampanoag, Narragansett and Nipmuck Indians 1675-1676.
1676 
  • 1676: Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
1679 
  • 1679: Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
1685 
  • 1685: James II. Ruler of England 1685-1689. House of Stuart (restored): 2nd son of Charles I. Deposed 1688, interregnum Dec 11, 1688, to Feb 13, 1689.
1689 
  • 1689: King William's War: English Colonies vs France 1689-1697.
  • 1689: William III and Mary II. Rulers of England 1689-1702. House of Stuart (restored): Son of William, Prince of Orange, by Mary, daughter of Charles I. Mary eldest daughter of James II. She died 1694.
1698 
  • 1698: Englishman, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
1701 
  • 1701: Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
1702 
  • 1702: Queen Anne's War: English Colonies vs France 1702-1713.
  • 1702: Anne. Ruler of England 1702-1714. House of Stuart (restored): 2nd daughter of James II. Died with no living heirs.
1709 
  • 1709: Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
10 1711 
  • 1711: Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
11 1712 
  • 1712: Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.
12 1714 
  • 1714: George I. Ruler of England 1714-1727. House of Hanover: Son of Elector of Hanover, by Sohia, grand-daughter of James I. Proclaimed King under Act of Settlement.
13 1717 
  • 1717: Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
14 1722 
  • 1722: French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.
15 1723 
  • 1723: Drummer's War 1723-1726.
16 1724 
  • 1724: Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
17 1727 
  • 1727: George II. Ruler of England 1727-1760. House of Hanover: Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg.
18 1733 
  • 1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
19 1744 
  • 1744: King George's War: French Colonies vs Great Britain 1744-1748.
20 1745 
  • 1745: E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
21 1752 
  • 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
22 1755 
  • 1755: Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
23 1756 
  • 1756: French and Indian War: also known as the Seven Years War. French Colonies vs Great Britain 1756-1763.
24 1757 
  • 1757: John Campbell invents the sextant.
25 1758 
  • 1758: Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
26 1759 
  • 1759: Cherokee War: English Colonists vs Cherokee Indians 1759-1761.
27 1760 
  • 1760: George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
28 1761 
  • 1761: Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
29 1764 
  • 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
30 1767 
  • 1767: Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
31 1768 
  • 1768: Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
32 1769 
  • 1769: James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
33 1774 
  • 1774: Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
34 1775 
  • 1775: American Revolution: English Colonists vs Great Britain 1775-1783.
  • 1775: Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
  • 1775: Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
35 1776 
  • 1776: USA: signing of the Declaration of Independence.
  • 1776: David Bushnell invents a submarine.
36 1779 
  • 1779: Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
37 1780 
  • 1780: Gervinus invents the circular saw.
  • 1780: Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
38 1783 
  • 1783: Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
  • 1783: Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
  • 1783: Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
  • 1783: Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
39 1784 
  • 1784: Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
  • 1784: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
40 1785 
  • 1785: Blanchard invents a working parachute.
  • 1785: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
  • 1785: Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
  • 1785: Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.