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As a means of recording the passage of Time , ''the 18th century'' refers to the Century that lasted from 1701 through 1800 in the Gregorian Calendar .
European history scholars will sometimes specifically refer to the 18th century as 1715 - 1789 , denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV Of France and the start of the French Revolution .
Events
1700s
1710s
1720s
1730s
1740s
1750s
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- fought among European powers in various theaters around the world.
- signals the beginning of British rule in India .
1760s
1770s
1780s
1790s
, 1789 , an iconic event of the French Revolution .]]
Significant people
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi , Italian mathematician and linguist
- Ahmad Shah Abdali , Afghan King
- Ueda Akinari , Japanese writer
- Jean Le Rond D'Alembert , French mathematician, physicist, and encyclopedist
- Queen Anne , British monarch
- Marie Antoinette , Austrian-born French Queen
- Aurangzeb , Mughal Emperor
- Johann Sebastian Bach , German composer
- George Berkeley , Irish empiricist philosopher
- Pierre Beaumarchais , French writer
- Jeremy Bentham , English philosopher and reformer
- Daniel Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician and physicist
- François Boucher , French painter
- Edmund Burke , British statesman and philosopher
- Robert Burns , Scottish poet
- Catherine The Great , Russian Tsaritsa
- Alexis Clairault , French mathematician
- James Cook , British navigator
- François Couperin , French composer
- Denis Diderot , French writer and philosopher
- Eugenio Espejo , Ecuadorian scientist
- Leonhard Euler , Swiss mathematician
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard , French painter
- Benjamin Franklin , American scientist and statesman
- Frederick The Great , Prussian monarch
- Thomas Gainsborough , English painter
- Carl Friedrich Gauss , German mathematician, physicist and astronomer
- King George III , British monarch
- Christoph Willibald Gluck , German composer
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe , German writer
- George Frideric Handel , German composer
- Alexander Hamilton , American statesman
- Joseph Haydn , Austrian composer
- William Hogarth , English painter and engraver
- David Hume , Scottish philosopher
- Thomas Jefferson , American statesman
- Samuel Johnson , British writer and literary critic
- Kangxi Emperor , China
- Immanuel Kant , German philosopher
- Pierre Choderlos De Laclos , French writer
- Joseph Louis Lagrange , Italian-French mathematician and physicist
- Pierre Simon Laplace , French physicist and mathematician
- John Law , Scottish economist
- Mikhail Lomonosov , Russian scientist
- Antoine Lavoisier , French chemist
- Adrien-Marie Legendre , French mathematician
- Louis XV Of France , French monarch
- Louis XVI Of France , French monarch
- James Madison , American statesman
- Maria Theresa Of Austria , Austrian Empress
- Michikinikwa , Miami tribe chief and war leader
- Honoré Mirabeau French writer and politician
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Austrian composer
- Nadir Shah , Persian King
- Thomas Paine , British intellectual
- Pius VI , Roman Pope
- François-André Danican Philidor , French composer and chess master
- Marquis Of Pombal , Portuguese Prime Minister
- Alexander Pope , British poet
- Qianlong Emperor , China
- Francis II Rákóczi , prince of Hungary and Transylvania, Revolutionary leader
- Jean-Philippe Rameau , French composer
- Bartolomeo Rastrelli , Italian-born Russian architect
- Sir Joshua Reynolds , British painter
- Maximilien Robespierre , French revolutionary leader and dictator
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau , French writer and philosopher
- Domenico Scarlatti , Italian composer.
- Friedrich Schiller , German writer
- John Small, Sr , English cricketer
- Adam Smith , Scottish economist and philosopher
- Laurence Sterne , British writer
- Edward "Lumpy" Stevens , English cricketer
- Alexander Suvorov , Russian military leader
- Jonathan Swift , Anglo-Irish satirist
- Toussaint L'Ouverture , Haitian revolutionary leader
- Tupac Amaru II , Peruvian revolutionary
- Antonio Vivaldi , Italian composer
- Voltaire , French writer and philosopher
- Robert Walpole , British Prime Minister
- George Washington , American general and first president
- James Watt , Scottish scientist and inventor
- Antoine Watteau , French painter
- John Wesley , British churchman, founder of Methodism
- William Pitt , British Prime Minister
See Founding Fathers Of The United States
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Decades and years
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