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Anna Catharina Vehmel

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   Date  Event(s)
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.
1711 
  • 1711: Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
1712 
  • 1712: Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.
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.
1717 
  • 1717: Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
1722 
  • 1722: French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.
10 1723 
  • 1723: Drummer's War 1723-1726.
11 1724 
  • 1724: Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
12 1727 
  • 1727: George II. Ruler of England 1727-1760. House of Hanover: Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg.
13 1733 
  • 1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
14 1744 
  • 1744: King George's War: French Colonies vs Great Britain 1744-1748.
15 1745 
  • 1745: E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
16 1752 
  • 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
17 1755 
  • 1755: Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
18 1756 
  • 1756: French and Indian War: also known as the Seven Years War. French Colonies vs Great Britain 1756-1763.
19 1757 
  • 1757: John Campbell invents the sextant.
20 1758 
  • 1758: Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
21 1759 
  • 1759: Cherokee War: English Colonists vs Cherokee Indians 1759-1761.
22 1760 
  • 1760: George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
23 1761 
  • 1761: Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
24 1764 
  • 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
25 1767 
  • 1767: Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
26 1768 
  • 1768: Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
27 1769 
  • 1769: James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
28 1774 
  • 1774: Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
29 1775 
  • 1775: American Revolution: English Colonists vs Great Britain 1775-1783.
  • 1775: Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
  • 1775: Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
30 1776 
  • 1776: David Bushnell invents a submarine.
  • 1776: USA: signing of the Declaration of Independence.
31 1779 
  • 1779: Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
32 1780 
  • 1780: Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
  • 1780: Gervinus invents the circular saw.
33 1783 
  • 1783: Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
  • 1783: Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
  • 1783: Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
  • 1783: Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
34 1784 
  • 1784: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
  • 1784: Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
35 1785 
  • 1785: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
  • 1785: Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
  • 1785: Blanchard invents a working parachute.
  • 1785: Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
36 1786 
  • 1786: John Fitch invents a steamboat.
37 1789 
  • 1789: The guillotine is invented.
  • 1789: George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
38 1790 
  • 1790: The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
39 1791 
  • 1791: John Barber invents the gas turbine.
  • 1791: Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
40 1792 
  • 1792: William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
  • 1792: The first ambulance.
41 1794 
  • 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
  • 1794: Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
42 1795 
  • 1795: Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
43 1796 
  • 1796: Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
44 1797 
  • 1797: John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
  • 1797: Wittemore patents a carding machine.
  • 1797: A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
45 1798 
  • 1798: Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
  • 1798: The first soft drink invented.
  • 1798: Franco-American Naval War: United States vs France 1798-1800.
46 1799 
  • 1799: Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
  • 1799: Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
47 1800 
  • 1800: Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
48 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.