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| 1 | 1755 | - 1755: Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
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| 2 | 1756 | - 1756: French and Indian War: also known as the Seven Years War. French Colonies vs Great Britain 1756-1763.
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| 3 | 1757 | - 1757: John Campbell invents the sextant.
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| 4 | 1758 | - 1758: Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
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| 5 | 1759 | - 1759: Cherokee War: English Colonists vs Cherokee Indians 1759-1761.
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| 6 | 1760 | - 1760: George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
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| 7 | 1761 | - 1761: Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
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| 8 | 1764 | - 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
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| 9 | 1767 | - 1767: Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
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| 10 | 1768 | - 1768: Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
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| 11 | 1769 | - 1769: James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
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| 12 | 1774 | - 1774: Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
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| 13 | 1775 | - 1775: American Revolution: English Colonists vs Great Britain 1775-1783.
- 1775: Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
- 1775: Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
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| 14 | 1776 | - 1776: USA: signing of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1776: David Bushnell invents a submarine.
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| 15 | 1779 | - 1779: Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
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| 16 | 1780 | - 1780: Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
- 1780: Gervinus invents the circular saw.
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| 17 | 1783 | - 1783: Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
- 1783: Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
- 1783: Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
- 1783: Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
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| 18 | 1784 | - 1784: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- 1784: Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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| 19 | 1785 | - 1785: Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
- 1785: Blanchard invents a working parachute.
- 1785: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
- 1785: Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
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| 20 | 1786 | - 1786: John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 21 | 1789 | - 1789: George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- 1789: The guillotine is invented.
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| 22 | 1790 | - 1790: The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
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| 23 | 1791 | - 1791: John Barber invents the gas turbine.
- 1791: Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
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| 24 | 1792 | - 1792: William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
- 1792: The first ambulance.
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| 25 | 1794 | - 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- 1794: Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 26 | 1795 | - 1795: Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 27 | 1796 | - 1796: Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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| 28 | 1797 | - 1797: John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
- 1797: A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
- 1797: Wittemore patents a carding machine.
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| 29 | 1798 | - 1798: Franco-American Naval War: United States vs France 1798-1800.
- 1798: Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
- 1798: The first soft drink invented.
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| 30 | 1799 | - 1799: Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- 1799: Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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| 31 | 1800 | - 1800: Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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| 32 | 1801 | - 1801: USA: Tripolitan War 1801-1805. Barbary Wars: also fought in 1815. United States vs Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 1801-1805.
- 1801: Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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| 33 | 1804 | - 1804: Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
- 1804: Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
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| 34 | 1809 | - 1809: James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
- 1809: Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
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| 35 | 1810 | - 1810: German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
- 1810: Peter Durand invents the tin can.
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| 36 | 1812 | - 1812: War of 1812: United States vs Great Britain 1812-1815.
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| 37 | 1813 | - 1813: Creek War: United States vs Creek Indians 1813-1814.
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| 38 | 1814 | - 1814: George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
- 1814: Joseph Nic
- 1814: German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
- 1814: The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
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| 39 | 1815 | - 1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
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| 40 | 1817 | - 1817: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
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1754 - 1818 (64 years) 
