| 1231-1808: | |  |  |  | Papal Inquisition  from before birth until after line end | 
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  | 1478-1834: |  | 
  | 1700-1721: | |  |  |  | Great Northern War  from before birth until age 17 | 
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  | 1701-1713: | |  |  |  | War of Spanish Succession  from before birth until age 9 | 
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  | 1702-1714: | |  |  |  | Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart)  from before birth until age 10 | 
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  | 1707: | |  |  |  | Mount Fujiyama erupts  at age 3 | 
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  | 1712: | |  |  |  | Slave revolts in New York  at age 8 | 
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  | 1712: | |  |  |  | Last execution for witchcraft in England  at age 8 | 
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  | 1714: | |  |  |  | Witch trials abolished in Prussia  at age 10 | 
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  | 1714: | |  |  |  | Farenheit invents mercury thermometer  at age 10 | 
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  | 1714-1727: | |  |  |  | Reign of King George I (Hanover)  from age 10 to age  23 | 
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  | 1716: | |  |  |  | Christian teaching forbidden in China  at age 12 | 
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  | 1718: | |  |  |  | Spain seizes Sicily (from Savoy)  at age 14 | 
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  | 1718: | |  |  |  | New Orleans founded  at age 14 | 
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  | 1718: | |  |  |  | Peter the Great has son and heir murdered  at age 14 | 
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  | 1721: | |  |  |  | Rifles brought to America by the Swiss  at age 17 | 
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  | 1722: | |  |  |  | Samoa and Easter island discovered by Dutch  at age 18 | 
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  | 1727-1760: | |  |  |  | Reign of King George II (Hanover)  from age 23 to age  56 | 
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  | 1727: | |  |  |  | Quakers demand abolition of slavery  at age 23 | 
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  | 1729: | |  |  |  | Opium smoking prohibited in China  at age 25 | 
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  | 1733-1735: | |  |  |  | War of Polish Succession  from age 29 to age  31 | 
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  | 1736: | |  |  |  | English statutes against witchcraft repealed  at age 32 | 
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  | 1740-1748: | |  |  |  | Austrian war of the succession  from age 36 to age  44 | 
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  | 1741: | |  |  |  | Slave revolt in New York, 2nd uprising  at age 37 | 
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  | 1742: | |  |  |  | Celsius invents Centigrade thermometer  at age 38 | 
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  | 1743: | |  |  |  | 1st settlement in S. Dakota  at age 39 | 
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  | 1745: | |  |  |  | Electrical Capacitor (Leyden Jar)  at age 41 | 
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  | 1749: | |  |  |  | Sign Language for deaf-mutes  at age 45 | 
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  | 1752: | |  |  |  | Britain and its colonies adopt Gregorian calender  at age 48 | 
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  | 1752: | |  |  |  | Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod  at age 48 | 
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  | 1754-1763: | |  |  |  | French-Indian war  from age 50 to age  59 | 
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  | 1755: | |  |  |  | Lisbon earthquake - 30,000 dead  at age 51 | 
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  | 1756-1763: | |  |  |  | Seven years war  from age 52 to age  59 | 
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  | 1758: | |  |  |  | Halley's Comet (1st predicted appearance)  at age 54 | 
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  | 1760: |  | 
  | 1760-1820: | |  |  |  | Reign of King George III (Hanover)  from age 56 until after line end | 
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  | 1765: | |  |  |  | HMS Victory launched  at age 61 | 
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  | 1765: |  | 
  | 1769: | |  |  |  | San Francisco bay discovered  at age 65 | 
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  | 1770: | |  |  |  | Boston Massacre - 5 people killed when British fire on mob  at age 66 | 
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  | 1772-1775: | |  |  |  | Antarctica circumnavigated by James Cook  from age 68 to age  71 | 
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  | 1772: | |  |  |  | Judge Murray decrees that slaves are free on landing in England  at age 68 | 
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  | 1773: | |  |  |  | Boston Tea Party  at age 69 | 
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  | 1774: | |  |  |  | 1st Continental Congress meets  at age 70 | 
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  | 1775-1782: | |  |  |  | British war in India  from age 71 until after line end | 
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  | 1775-1783: | |  |  |  | American Revolutionary War against the British  from age 71 until after line end | 
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  | 1776: | |  |  |  | Declaration of Independence  at age 72 | 
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  | 1778: | |  |  |  | Congress forbids import of slaves into America  at age 74 | 
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  | 1778: | |  |  |  | France joins war against Britan  at age 74 | 
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  | 1780: | |  |  |  | Benjamin Franklin discovers lightning is electricity  at age 76 | 
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