| THE SECOND MILLENIA |
| AD 1000 -- AD 2000 |
1700 -- 1800
The Mayflower
1700's
| Bullfighting, in it's modern form emerges in Spain. |
1710
| Umbrellas become popular in England. |
1714
| D. G. Fahrenheit constructs mercury thermometer with temperature scale. |
1715
| Vaudevilles, popular musical comedies, appears in Paris. |
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1720
| Wallpaper becomes fashionable in England. |
| First yacht club appears in Cork Harbor, Ireland. |
1721
| Johann Sebastian Bach writes the Brandenburg Concerto. |
1722
| The Quakers demand abolition of slavery. |
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1741
| George Frederic Handel composes "Messiah" |
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1742
| Edmund Hoyle popularizes card game now known as Bridge. |
1743
| First known elevator installed at Versailles for Louis XV to see his mistress. |
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1752
| Benjamin Franklin and his son demonstrate the relationship between electricity and lightning by flying a kite during a summer storm. |
1752
| Belgian creates roller skates by replacing blades of ice skates with wheels. |
1755
| Beginning of the Seven Years War between England and France, which in the British colonies of North America is known as the French and Indian War. |
1763
| The Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War. France cedes all its Canadian territories in America to England. |
1764
| Auguste Chouteau, a 14-year-old from a wealthy family in New Orleans, begins clearing a site for St. Louis, a new trading post on the Mississippi River near the mouth of the Missouri. |
1764
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at age 8, writes his first symphony. |
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1766
| Mason-Dixon line is drawn by two English surveyors as a boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Later it separates free and slave regions. |
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1769
| Catherine II of Russia orders further exploration of Alaska -- raises prospect of a permanent Russian settlement in North America. |
1769 -- 1776
| Franciscan Father Junipero Serra establishes Mission San Diego de Alcala (near present-day San Diego). He went on to found eight more missions, including San Carlos at Carmel, San Gabriel (near present-day Los Angeles: 1771), and San Francisco in 1776. |
1770
| Civil liberties, international free trade, textile machines and steam power lead England to an industrial revolution that slowly spreads all over the world. |
1773
| Boston Tea Party is held to protest tea duty (tax). |
1776
| British colonies in America declare independence from England. |
| New York tavern keeper mixes rum and fruit juice "cocktail," a name derived from rooster feathers used to adorn the glasses. |
1777
| "Stars and stripes" becomes America's official flag. |
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1778
| Captain James Cook discovers Hawaii, which he names the Sandwich Islands after the Earl of Sandwich. |
1784
| Treaty between America and England ends British sovereignty in the United States. (British surrendered in Yorktown in 1781.) |
| Russia establishes its first American colony on Kodiak Island. |
1789
| First U. S. Congress meeting. George Washington inaugurated president.
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| The Bastille of Paris, the great state prison of France, is stormed and destroyed by the populace, beginning the French Revolution. |
1791
| The waltz becomes fashionable in England. |
1792
| The New York Stock Exchange forms when brokers and merchants gather on Wall Street and agree to trade securities on a common commission basis. |
1796
| Englsih physician Edward Jenner introduces vaccination against smallpox. |
1799
| The Rosetta Stone is found near Egypt, which makes the decypering of heiroglyphics possible. |
