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   Date  Event(s)
1724 
  • 1724: Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
1727 
  • 1727: George II. Ruler of England 1727-1760. House of Hanover: Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg.
1733 
  • 1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
1744 
  • 1744: King George's War: French Colonies vs Great Britain 1744-1748.
1745 
  • 1745: E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
1752 
  • 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
1755 
  • 1755: Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
1756 
  • 1756: French and Indian War: also known as the Seven Years War. French Colonies vs Great Britain 1756-1763.
1757 
  • 1757: John Campbell invents the sextant.
10 1758 
  • 1758: Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
11 1759 
  • 1759: Cherokee War: English Colonists vs Cherokee Indians 1759-1761.
12 1760 
  • 1760: George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
13 1761 
  • 1761: Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
14 1764 
  • 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
15 1767 
  • 1767: Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
16 1768 
  • 1768: Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
17 1769 
  • 1769: James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
18 1774 
  • 1774: Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
19 1775 
  • 1775: Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
  • 1775: Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
  • 1775: American Revolution: English Colonists vs Great Britain 1775-1783.
20 1776 
  • 1776: USA: signing of the Declaration of Independence.
  • 1776: David Bushnell invents a submarine.
21 1779 
  • 1779: Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
22 1780 
  • 1780: Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
  • 1780: Gervinus invents the circular saw.
23 1783 
  • 1783: Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
  • 1783: Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
  • 1783: Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
  • 1783: Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
24 1784 
  • 1784: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
  • 1784: Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
25 1785 
  • 1785: Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
  • 1785: Blanchard invents a working parachute.
  • 1785: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
  • 1785: Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
26 1786 
  • 1786: John Fitch invents a steamboat.
27 1789 
  • 1789: The guillotine is invented.
  • 1789: George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
28 1790 
  • 1790: The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
29 1791 
  • 1791: Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
  • 1791: John Barber invents the gas turbine.
30 1792 
  • 1792: The first ambulance.
  • 1792: William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
31 1794 
  • 1794: Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
  • 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
32 1795 
  • 1795: Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
33 1796 
  • 1796: Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
34 1797 
  • 1797: A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
  • 1797: Wittemore patents a carding machine.
  • 1797: John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
35 1798 
  • 1798: Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
  • 1798: Franco-American Naval War: United States vs France 1798-1800.
  • 1798: The first soft drink invented.
36 1799 
  • 1799: Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
  • 1799: Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
37 1800 
  • 1800: Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
38 1801 
  • 1801: USA: Tripolitan War 1801-1805. Barbary Wars: also fought in 1815. United States vs Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 1801-1805.
  • 1801: Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
39 1804 
  • 1804: Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
  • 1804: Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
40 1809 
  • 1809: James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
  • 1809: Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
41 1810 
  • 1810: German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
  • 1810: Peter Durand invents the tin can.
42 1812 
  • 1812: War of 1812: United States vs Great Britain 1812-1815.
43 1813 
  • 1813: Creek War: United States vs Creek Indians 1813-1814.
44 1814 
  • 1814: George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
  • 1814: The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
  • 1814: German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
  • 1814: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
45 1815 
  • 1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
46 1817 
  • 1817: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
47 1819 
  • 1819: René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
  • 1819: Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
48 1820 
  • 1820: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
49 1823 
  • 1823: Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
50 1824 
  • 1824: Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
  • 1824: Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
51 1825 
  • 1825: John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
  • 1825: William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
52 1827 
  • 1827: Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
  • 1827: John Walker invents the modern matches.
53 1829 
  • 1829: William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
  • 1829: Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing.
  • 1829: American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
  • 1829: Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837.
54 1830 
  • 1830: Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
  • 1830: William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
55 1831 
  • 1831: American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
56 1832 
  • 1832: Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
  • 1832: Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836.
57 1834 
  • 1834: Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
  • 1834: Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.