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  1. 1796: Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination; smallpox killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year during the 18th century, including five reigning monarchs. 1796: War of the First Coalition: The Battle of Montenotte marks Napoleon Bonaparte's first victory as an army commander. 1796: The British eject the Dutch ...

    • 18th Century

      The American Revolutionary War took place in the late 18th...

  2. Stationed at Valence, Napoleon becomes president of the local Jacobin club and makes radical speeches against the nobility and clergy. Go to Jacobin in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: French Revolution. Europe.

  3. 18th century 1700s. 1709: Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano. 1709: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer. 1710s. 1712: Thomas Newcomen builds the first commercial steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine, unlike Thomas Savery's, uses a piston. 1730s

  4. Enlightenment, a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics.

  5. Timeline of aviation before the 18th century. Aviation portal. This is a list of aviation -related events occurring before the end of the 17th century (on 31 December 1700): Antiquity. c. 1700 BC. Greek myth of Icarus and Daedalus explores the desire to fly and the inherent dangers of it. [1] c. 850 BC.