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|- ! A.D. !! |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1763. || Peace of Paris; Canada ceded to Britain. British dominant in India. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1764. || Battle of Buxar. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1769. || Napoleon Bonaparte born. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1774. || Louis XVI began his reign. Suicide of Clive. The American revolutionary drama began. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1775. || Battle of Lexington. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1776. || Declaration of Independence by the United States of America. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1778. || J. J. Rousseau, the creator of modern democratic sentiment, died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1780. || End of the reign of Maria-Theresa. The Emperor Joseph (1765 to 1790) succeeded her in the hereditary Habsburg dominions. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1783. || Treaty of Peace between Britain and the new United States of America. Quaco set free in Massachusetts. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1787. || The Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia set up the Federal Government of the United States. France discovered to be bankrupt. The Assembly of the Notables. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1788. || First Federal Congress of the United States at New York. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1789. || The French States-General assembled. Storming of the Bastille. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1791. || The Jacobin Revolution. Flight to Varennes. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1792. || France declared war on Austria; Prussia declared war on France. Battle of Valmy. France became a republic. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1793. || Louis XVI beheaded. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1794. || Execution of Robespierre and end of the Jacobin republic. Rule of the Convention. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1795. || The Directory. Bonaparte suppressed a revolt and went to Italy as commander-in-chief. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1797. || By the Peace of Campo Formio Bonaparte destroyed the Republic of Venice. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1798. || Bonaparte went to Egypt. Battle of the Nile. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1799. || Bonaparte returned. He became First Consul with enormous powers. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1800. || Legislative union of Ireland and England enacted January 1st, 1801. |}