Britain was able to become a global power by the 1700s becasue it was suitably positioned to control trade. Europe was also industrializing and was generally winning in European conflicts. Free trade with Scotland and Ireland created a larger market for farmers and manufacturers.
Constantine founded Constantinople.
- Jan 1 Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tây Sơn Dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Huế, Vietnam.
- Jan 12 US Senate approves Thomas Jefferson's nomination of James Monroe and Robert Livingstone to negotiate purchase of New Orleans from France
- Feb 4 William Dunlap adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature
- Feb 14 Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Pennsylvania
- Feb 14 Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress that conflicts with the Constitution is void
- Feb 19 US Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953
- Feb 24 US Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)
- Feb 25 In the last significant act of the Holy Roman Empire, more than 100 German polities are abolished in a major internal reorganization
- Feb 27 Great fire in Bombay, India
- Mar 1 Ohio becomes 17th state of the Union
- Mar 3 1st impeachment trial of a US federal judge, John Pickering, begins
- Mar 3 Colégio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello.
- Mar 19 Friedrich Schiller's "Die Braut von Messina" premieres in Weimar
- Apr 1 French law rules the use of intention
- Apr 5 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D
- Apr 26 Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
- Apr 30 Chancellor Robert Livingston and James Monroe sign Louisiana Purchase Treaty in Paris at a cost of 15 million dollars, doubles the size of the USA
- May 16 Peace of Amiens between French Republic and Great Britain ends
- May 17 John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
- May 18 Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy and Switzerland
- May 22 1st US public library opens in Connecticut
And so on.....
<em><u>Hope</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>this</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>helps</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>u</u></em><em><u>.</u></em><em><u>.</u></em><em><u>!</u></em>
<em><u>If</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>helped</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>u</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>mark</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>me</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>as</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>brai</u></em><em><u>nlist</u></em>
<em><u>Don</u></em><em><u>'t</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>fo</u></em><em><u>rget</u></em><em><u> to</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>Follow</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>me</u></em><em><u>.</u></em><em><u>.</u></em><em><u>.</u></em>
Galileo discovered that the earth revolved around the sun not that the sun revolved around the earth.
