Events that changed the world in the eighteenth century

Peter the Great reforms Russia, 1689-1725 / Taylor Stults

The war of the Spanish succession, 1701-1714 / Andrew P. Trout

The first British empire, 1701-1763 / Thomas Prasch

The war of the Austrian succession and the Seven Years' War, 1740-1763 / Franz A.J. Szabo

The Enlightenment, c. 1750 / Linda E. Mitchell

The agricultural revolution, c. 1750 / Robert D. Cornwall

The American revolution, 1763-1783 / Rick Kennedy

The industrial revolution, c. 1775 / David Mitch

The Atlantic slave trade, c. 1780 / Kenneth Banks

The French revolution, 1789-1799 / Donald H. Barry.