18th century

* Industrial Revolution begins
* The Encyclopédie by the Encyclopedists
* The English Dictionary by Samuel Johnson
* Economics by Adam Smith
* Rosetta stone discovered by Napoleon's troops.
* Vitus Bering discovered Alaska.
* James Cook mapped the boundaries of the Pacific Ocean and discovered many Pacific Islands.
* Wahhabism by Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab

Decades and years

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