Era · c. 1500 – 1800
Voyages of exploration, the Reformation and the age of revolutions that reshaped Europe and the wider world.
The rising collapsed after the drawn Battle of Sheriffmuir and the Jacobite surrender at Preston; James left Scotland in February 1716 and leading rebels were executed or exiled.
Austria gained Belgrade, the Banat of Temesvár and Lesser Wallachia, Venice lost the Morea, and a period of peace began in the Ottoman capital.
A period of relative peace and courtly cultural activity in Istanbul that ended with the Patrona Halil revolt of 1730.
La Nouvelle-Orléans was established on a bend of the Mississippi and became the capital of French Louisiana in 1722–1723.
Blackbeard and several of his crew were killed by a Royal Navy boarding party under Lieutenant Robert Maynard; most survivors were later hanged in Virginia.
Dzungar forces withdrew from Tibet, the Seventh Dalai Lama was enthroned in Lhasa, and a Qing garrison and protectorate were established.
Bubonic plague killed an estimated 40,000-50,000 people in Marseille and about 90,000-120,000 across Provence before dying out in 1722.
South Sea shares collapsed in autumn 1720, ruining many investors; a parliamentary inquiry punished directors and ministers and brought Robert Walpole to power.
Inoculation, or variolation, was adopted by the British royal family and spread across Britain and Europe, reducing smallpox deaths until vaccination replaced it.
The Dutch expedition named the island Easter Island and recorded the first European description of Rapa Nui and its standing moai; a clash on shore left about ten islanders dead.
Shah Sultan Husayn abdicated in October 1722 and Mahmud Hotaki took the throne, ending effective Safavid rule and opening years of invasion and civil war.
Yongzheng centralised power, reformed taxation and created the Grand Council, leaving his son Qianlong a strong state and a full treasury.
