Religion & Belief in the 18th century

787 sourced entries, 1700 CE to 1799 CE, oldest first. Also see Religion & Belief across every century or everything else in the 18th century.

1700January 1 – Protestant nations in Western Europe, except England, start using the Gregorian calendar. Catholic nations have been using the Gregorian calendar since its introduction in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII.source
1700May 5 – Within a few days of poet John Dryden's death in London (May 1 O.S.), his last written work (The Secular Masque) is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.source
1700June 8 (May 28 O.S.) – The legislature for the Province of Massachusetts Bay (the modern-day Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States) passes into law "An Act against Jesuits & Popish Priests" making a finding that Roman Catholic clerics have attempted to incite American Indians into a rebellion against the Crown, and declaring "That all and every Jesuit, Seminary Priest, Missionary, or other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Person made or ordained by any Authority, Power or Jurisdiction derived, challenged or pretended from the Pope or See of Rome, now residing within this Province or any part thereof, shall depart from and out of the same, at or before the tenth day of September next, in this present year, One Thousand and Seven Hundred." The Province of New York enacts similar legislation later in the year.source
1700September 12 – Antioh Cantemir is deposed as the voivode of Moldavia and replaced by his predecessor Constantine Ducas.source
1700November 23 – Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Albani, having been ordained as a Roman Catholic priest only two months earlier, is elected by the Papal conclave to succeed Pope Innocent XII, and becomes the 243rd pope, taking the name of Clement XI.source
1700December 8 – The formal coronation of Pope Clement XI takes place in Rome.source
170025 December – First Christmas hymn authorised to be sung in the Anglican church, "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks", the words by Nahum Tate having been first published this year, in a supplement to "Tate and Brady".England source
1700Arweiniwr cartrefol i'r iawn a'r buddiol dderbyniad o Swperyr ArglwyddWales source
1700The Promised Reed; a sermon preach'd ... for the support of weak ChristiansWales source
1700Evan Evans travels from Wales to become rector of Christ Church, PhiladelphiaWales source
170121 June – title of Duke of Argyll in the Peerage of Scotland created in favour of Archibald Campbell.Scotland source
1701June - Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, is suspended by Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, for simony and maladministration.Wales source
170116 September (N.S.) — following the death of the deposed King James II of England in exile in France, his son Prince James Francis Edward Stuart becomes the new claimant to the thrones of England as King James III and Scotland as King James VIII; Louis XIV of France, the Papal States, and Philip V of Spain recognise him as the rightful heir.England source
1701September 18 – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, sworn as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (appointed 1700).Ireland source
17012 December - Humphrey Humphreys is consecrated Bishop of Hereford; he is replaced as Bishop of Bangor in the following year by John Evans.Wales source
1701Opening of the Bevis Marks Synagogue in London, the oldest synagogue in the United Kingdom in continuous use.England source
1701Marsh's Library in Dublin is established by Narcissus Marsh (Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)) as the first public library in Ireland (architect: Sir William Robinson) with refugee French Huguenot scholar Élie Bouhéreau as its first librarian.Ireland source
1701Title of Marquess of Annandale in the Peerage of Scotland created in favour of William Johnstone, who is also this year Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.Scotland source
170223 April – coronation of Queen Anne in Westminster Abbey.England source
17025 May – Following a suspension of nearly a year, Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, is allowed to return to his see.Wales source
1702Ripon Obelisk designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, triggering a fashion for obelisks in Britain.England source
1702David Maurice – Cynffwrdd i'r gwan Gristion, neu'r gorsen ysig (translation from work of Theophilus Dorrington)Wales source
1703June 11 – Charles Hickman is consecrated as Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry.Ireland source
1703Wine Act 1703 (c. 13 (S)), allowing Scots legally to import French wine.Scotland source
1703The Charles XII Bible is completed.Sweden source
1703James Owen – Moderation a VirtueWales source
1703Ellis Wynne – Gweledigaetheu y Bardd CwscWales source
1703Thomas Baddy – hymns appended to Pasc y ChristionWales source
1703Pasc y Christion (translation of a work by Thomas Doolittle)Wales source
170416 February - The Norwegian Slottsloven commission was formed.Norway source
1704September 28 – Damat Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, is removed from office by Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III, and replaced by Kalaylikoz Ahmed Pasha.source
17049 October - Roger Griffith is installed as archdeacon of Brecon.Wales source
17043 November – Queen Anne's Bounty (a fund established to augment the incomes of poorer Church of England clergy) receives a Royal Charter.England source
1704November 26 – The inauguration of the newly built Kastelskirken takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark.source
1704Chinese Rites controversy: Rome decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in Latin (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions.source
1704Aaron Hart becomes rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London and de facto the country's first chief rabbi.England source
1704Popery Act enforces various restrictions on Catholics, in particular inheritance by gavelkind for Catholics and male primogeniture for Protestants, which tends to prevent an increase in Catholic landholding.Ireland source
1704Registration Act requires all existing Catholic priests to register in their local magistrates' court by July 20, to pay two £50 surety bonds for good behavior, and to stay in the county where they registered, with a financial inducement to convert to the Church of Ireland.Ireland source
1704John Morgan - Bloeddnad Ofnadwy yr Utcorn Diweddaf (posthumously published)Wales source
170516 April – Isaac Newton is knighted by Queen Anne at Trinity College, Cambridge.England source
170529 April - George Bull is consecrated Bishop of St David's.Wales source
1705May 5 – Joseph I succeeds his father Leopold I as Holy Roman Emperor.source
1705July 15 – Al-Husayn I ibn Ali becomes the first Bey of Tunis, founding the Husainid dynasty that rules Tunisia until the abolition of the monarchy in 1957.source
1705October 4 (N.S.) – Stanisław Leszczyński is crowned Stanisław I of Poland.source
1705Lord Archibald Campbell appointed Lord High Treasurer of Scotland.Scotland source
1705Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priestWales source
1705Thomas Edwardes - Diocesan Episcopacy proved from Holy ScriptureWales source
1706February – Regency Act (backdated to 1705) requires the senior officers of state to proclaim the next Protestant heir (at this time, Sophia of Hanover) as successor to the English throne on the death of Queen Anne.England source
1706June 29 – Flemish Jesuit missionary François Noël is welcomed in China by the Kangxi Emperor at the Forbidden City in Beijing, and discusses the Emperor's disdain over the disapproval of Jesuit accommodation of Confucian rites by the Roman Catholic Church.source
1706December 9 – João V becomes the new King of Portugal upon the death of his father, Dom Pedro II, and begins a reign of 43 years.source
1706Ulster Scots clergyman Francis Makemie organizes the first presbytery in British America.Ireland source
1706St George's Church in Bergen was built.Norway source
1706A Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems both ancient and modern, by several hands edited by James Watson begins publication in Edinburgh.Scotland source
1707January 1 – John V is crowned King of Portugal and the Algarves in Lisbon.source
1707June 28 – Yeshe Gyatso is installed as the new Dalai Lama by his father, Lha-bzang Khan, who has recently deposed the 6th Dalai Lama. Though the justification is that the 21-year-old Yeshe was the true reincarnation of the 5th Dalai Lama, Yeshe receives no recognition from Buddhists in Tibet or Mongolia and the 7th Dalai Lama is installed in 1710.source
1707Dost Mohammad of Bhopal founded Bhopal StateIndia source
1707A new Succession to the Crown Act requires the senior officers of state to proclaim the next protestant heir as successor to the British throne on the death of Queen Anne, on pain of treason; and provides for the continuance of Parliament on the monarch’s death.United Kingdom source
1707Susanna Centlivre, The Platonick LadyUnited Kingdom source
1707Matthew Tindal, A Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church (seq. to 1706 work)United Kingdom source
1707John Toland, A Philippick Oration to Incite the English Against the French (translated from a work by Matthaus Schiner)United Kingdom source
1707Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (frequently reprinted hereafter)United Kingdom source
1707Catherine Trotter, A Discourse Concerning a Guide in ControversiesUnited Kingdom source
1707Egwyddorion y Grefydd GristianogawlWales source
1708March 11 – the scholar Dr. Thomas Milles is appointed Church of Ireland Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, in which office he will serve until his death in 1740 (consecrated April 18 in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin).Ireland source
17081 May – Privy Council of Scotland abolished.Scotland source
17081 May – the Privy Councils of England and Scotland are merged into the Privy Council of Great Britain.United Kingdom source
1708October 26 – Topping out of new St Paul's Cathedral in London.source
170826 October – topping out of the new St Paul's Cathedral in London.United Kingdom source
1708St. Anne's Parish Act of 1707 is passed, dividing the parish of St. Nicholas Without, Dublin, and giving part of it the denomination of St. Luke's.Ireland source
1708Jenkin Evans - Catecism Byr i Blant (translation of Mathew Henry's Short Catechism for Children)Wales source
1708Cennad oddiwrth y Ser... (almanac)Wales source
170922 April – Hugo Octavius Accoramboni was given the title Marquis of Lista.Norway source
170926 April – Act of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for the provision of public libraries in presbyteries.Scotland source
1709October 12 – Chihuahua City in Mexico is founded.source
170911 November – Henry Sacheverell preaches an incendiary sermon The Perils of False Brethren at St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London which leads to his impeachment by Parliament.United Kingdom source
17091 December - William Gambold, son of John Gambold of Puncheston, becomes rector of Puncheston with Llanychaer.Wales source
1709Basil Lazarus III becomes Syriac Orthodox Maphrian of the East.source
1709Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge established by royal charter.Scotland source
1709Publication of An English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-day of St. Gregory by Ælfric of Eynsham, translated from Old English by Elizabeth Elstob.United Kingdom source
1709Humphrey Foulkes becomes rector of Marchwiel.Wales source
1710April 18 – Thomas Hancorne gives the county of Swansea's assize sermon, "The right way to honour and happiness" in which he espouses his High Church beliefs.source
171030 September - John Ellis becomes Rector of Llandwrog and is made a canon of Bangor Cathedral.Wales source
1710November 24 – Francisco di Ratta and his two nephews Giuseppe di Ratta and Luigi di Ratta is given the title Marquis of Mandal.Norway source
1710John Smithwick begins brewing Smithwick's ale at Kilkenny, Ireland (St. Francis Abbey Brewery).source
1710Founding of Pushkin, Saint Petersburg in 1710 under the name of Tsarskoye Selo (Tsar's Village), which was the residence of the Russian imperial family (House of Romanov) and other visiting nobles.Russia source
1710Civil script (гражданский шрифт) was imposed by Peter The Great in 1710, making it easier to read and write Russian.Russia source
1710Founding of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra Monastery, established by Peter The Great in 1710.Russia source
1710John Wynne obtains permission from the bishop's court to change the name of Trelawnyd to "Newmarket", in his quest to make it a centre of the lead industry.Wales source
1710William Fleetwood, Bishop of St Asaph, encourages his clergy to preach in the Welsh language.Wales source
1710John Davies - Flores Poetarum BritannicorumWales source
1711April 5 (Easter Sunday) – The central tower of Elgin Cathedral in northeast Scotland collapses.source
17115 April (Easter Sunday) – Elgin Cathedral's central tower collapses.Scotland source
17115 April (Easter Sunday) – the central tower of Elgin Cathedral in northeast Scotland collapses.United Kingdom source
1711May – Alexander Pope publishes the poem An Essay on Criticism in London.source
1711August 14 – The inauguration of the newly built Cathedral of the Assumption takes place in Gozo, Malta.source
1711September 18 – Bishop Bogusław Gosiewski sells the town of Maladzyechna in the Minsk Region of Belarus to the mighty Ogiński family.source
171123 September - Christmas Samuel is ordained at the request of his congregation at Panteg.Wales source
1711December 8 – The Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Comayagua in Honduras, one of the oldest cathedrals in Central America, is inaugurated.source
1711December 15 – The Old Pummerin, a massive bell cast from 208 captured cannons, is consecrated by Bishop Franz Ferdinand Freiherr von Rummel in preparation for its installation in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna (the Stephansdom).source
171115 December – Penal Laws (Ireland): the Occasional Conformity Act ("An Act for preserving the Protestant Religion"), passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, bars Roman Catholics from public office.Ireland source
171115 December – Occasional Conformity Act, intending to bar nonconformists and Roman Catholics from public office.United Kingdom source
1711December 25 – The rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral in London to a design by Sir Christopher Wren is declared complete by Parliament; Old St Paul's had been destroyed by the 1666 Great Fire of London.source
1711The short-lived County of Friderichsholm is established by Frederick IV for his mistress Charlotte Helene von Schindel from the manors of Næsbyholm and Bavelse but dissolved again in 1716.Denmark source
1711Scottish Episcopalians Act 1711 (becoming law 3 March 1712) tolerates the right of the Scottish Episcopal Church to continue its Anglican form of liturgy and communion.Scotland source
1711Y Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin y Cydymaith Goreu: Yn y Tŷ a'r StafellWales source
17121 January – Thomas Trevor is raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Trevor of Bromham.Wales source
1712January 26 – The Old Pummerin, a 18,161 kg bell newly installed in the Stephansdom, St. Stephen's Cathedral, in Vienna, is rung for the first time to mark the entry of Charles VI to Vienna from Frankfurt after his coronation as Emperor. It takes a quarter-hour for 16 men pulling on the bell rope to swing the heavy bell back-and-forth enough for the clapper to strike; the resulting forces endanger the tower so the architect orders that in future the bell be rung only by pulling its clapper.source
1712March 3 – Scottish Episcopalians Act 1711 comes into effect, leading to incorporation of the Scottish Episcopal Church.source
17123 March – Scottish Episcopalians Act 1711 comes into effect, leading to incorporation of the Scottish Episcopal Church.Scotland source
17121 May – the Church Patronage (Scotland) Act 1711 comes into effect.Scotland source
1712May 22 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned King of Hungary.source
1712June 17 – The newly built St Ann's Church, Manchester, England, is consecrated by the Bishop of Chester.source
1712August - Jonathan Edwards is replaced as Principal of Jesus by John Wynne, who has the support of the college Visitor, the Earl of Pembroke.Wales source
1712December 7 – The charter of Buchach Monastery in Ukraine, founded by Stefan Aleksander Potocki and his wife Joanna née Sieniawska, is signed in Lublin.source
1712Building begins of St. Paul's, Deptford, a church designed by Thomas Archer.United Kingdom source
1713April 19 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, to ensure one of his daughters will inherit the Habsburg lands.source
17137 July – Handel's "Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate" is performed at a service in St Paul's Cathedral to commemorate the Peace of UtrechtUnited Kingdom source
1713Basil Matthew II becomes Syriac Orthodox Maphrian of the East.source
171425 March – Archbishop Tenison's School, the world's earliest surviving mixed gender school, is endowed by Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Croydon.United Kingdom source
1714March – the Scriblerus Club, an informal group of literary friends, is formed by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot (at whose London house they meet), Thomas Parnell, Henry St. John and Robert Harley.United Kingdom source
17148 May - Adam Ottley, Bishop of St David's, complains that Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) has been "going about preaching on week days in Churches, Churchyards, and sometimes on the mountains, to hundreds of auditors".Wales source
1714June 20 – In France, Henri-Charles du Cambout de Coislin, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Metz, condemns the papal bull Unigenitus, issued by Pope Clement XI against the 1671 commentary by Pasquier Quesnel of the four Gospels and inflaming the Jansenist controversy.source
1714July – first Catholic seminary in Britain opens at Eilean Bàn on Loch Morar.Scotland source
1714July – first Roman Catholic seminary in Britain opens at Eilean Bàn on Loch Morar in Scotland.United Kingdom source
17141 August - George I of Great Britain becomes king, and soon replaces the Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, the Earl of Plymouth with his favoured candidate, the previous incumbent, the Earl of Cholmondeley. The first bishop he appoints is John Wynne, principal of Jesus College, Oxford, who becomes Bishop of St Asaph, but does not take up his new position until the following year, preferring the academic life.Wales source
1714October 20 – The coronation of George I of Great Britain and Ireland takes place in Westminster Abbey, a little less than three months after George became the new British monarch.source
171410 December – the College of Missions is established.Denmark source
1714Archbishop Tenison's School, the world's earliest surviving mixed gender school, is established by Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Croydon, south of London, England.source
1714Worcester College, University of Oxford is founded (formerly Gloucester College, closed during the Dissolution of the monasteries).source
1714First definitely known Dublin printing of the King James Version of the Bible.Ireland source
17156 February - John Wynne is enthroned as Bishop of St Asaph.Wales source
1715March 14 – James Stuart, the "Old Pretender" attempting to restore the House of Stuart to control of Great Britain as King James III of England and James VIII of Scotland, meets with Pope Clement XI for the assistance of the Roman Catholic Church in the Jacobite rising.source
17151 August – Nicholas Rowe is appointed as Poet Laureate, replacing the Irish-born Nahum Tate. The Whig Rowe has written works supportive of the Hanoverian Succession. He holds the post until his death in 1718.United Kingdom source
171616 January – William Wake appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury.United Kingdom source
1716January John Evans, Bishop of Bangor, is translated to Meath in Ireland, leaving Wales without any Welsh-speaking bishops for a prolonged period.Wales source
171624 February - Peter Jansen Wessel was ennobled, and given the noble family name Tordenskiold.Norway source
1716March 18 – Italian Jesuit missionary Ippolito Desideri arrives in Lhasa to become one of the first Europeans to attempt to bring Christianity to Buddhist Tibet.source
1716March 23 – Jeremias III becomes the new Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church.source
1716August 24 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, returns from Italy.source
1716Myles Davies – Athenae Britannicae (six vols., London)Wales source
1716Welsh translation of works by Tertullian and Cyprian, probably by John Morgan of MatchinWales source
1717February 6 – Following the treaty between France and Britain, the Pretender James Stuart leaves France, and seeks refuge with Pope Clement XI.source
1717February – as part of the Triple Alliance treaty between Britain and France, James Stuart leaves France and seeks refuge with the Pope.Scotland source
1717March 31 – Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, brings the Bangorian Controversy within the Church of England into the open by delivering a sermon to, and supposedly at the request of, King George I of Great Britain, on The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ with the text "My kingdom is not of this world" (John 18:36), concluding there is no Biblical justification for church government.source
171731 March – Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, extends the Bangorian Controversy by delivering a sermon to, and supposedly at the request of, King George on The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ with the text "My kingdom is not of this world" (John 18:36), concluding there is no Biblical justification for church government.United Kingdom source
171731 March - In the presence of King George I of Great Britain, Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, gives a sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ", beginning the Bangorian Controversy.Wales source
171724 June – Grand Lodge of London and Westminster, the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge (the later United Grand Lodge of England), is founded.United Kingdom source
1717Maharaja Pamheiba of Manipur is converted to Hinduism by Shantidas Goswami, and decrees it to be the official religion of his state.source
1717The last two volumes of Antoine Galland's Les mille et une nuits are published posthumously in Lyon of the first translation of One Thousand and One Nights into a European language, including the first translation of the story of Ali BabaFrance source
1717Seminarium Lapponicum is established in Trondheim, a school for preparing teachers to teach in Sami language.Norway source
1717Approximate date – the seminary at Scalan begins to train Roman Catholic priests.Scotland source
1717Benjamin Hoadly – The Nature of the Kingdom, or Church of ChristWales source
17187 January – Religious Worship Act 1718 repeals the Occasional Conformity Act 1711 and Schism Act 1714, restoring some freedoms to dissenters.United Kingdom source
1718January 17 – Jeremias III reclaims his role as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, chief leader within the Eastern Orthodox Church, 16 days after the Metropolitan Cyril IV of Pruoza had engineered an election to become the Patriarch.source
1718March 20 – The Privy Council of the United Kingdom is reorganized, forming the Second Stanhope–Sunderland ministry. Secretary of State for the Northern Department Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland succeeds James Stanhope as the new First Lord of the Treasury, and Stanhope takes Sunderland's job.source
1718May 1 – San Antonio in what later becomes Texas is founded by Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares with the construction of the initial Mission San Antonio de Valero.source
1718May 2 – the scholar William Nicolson is appointed Bishop of Derry.Ireland source
1718May 10 – the Roman Catholic Bishopric of Emly is united with the Archbishopric of Cashel.Ireland source
17189 November - Theophilus Evans is ordained by the Bishop of St David's.Wales source
1718Marrow Controversy, an ecclesiastical dispute.Scotland source
171915 January — Pope Clement IX issues the breve Pietatis vestrae in response to a letter from the bishops of the Austrian Netherlands protesting their adherence to the 1713 bull Unigenitus.Belgium source
1719January 23 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created, within the Holy Roman Empire.source
171915 May - Gustav Cronhielm appointed Privy Council Chancellery.Sweden source
17193 August — The Saint-Joseph from Ostend arrives in Canton.Belgium source
1719September 29 – Muhammad Shah is crowned as the 12th Mughal Emperor of India at Shahjahanabad (modern-day Delhi), 12 days after the death of Shah Jahan II from tuberculosis.source
1719Cornelius Nary publishes a new Roman Catholic New Testament Bible translation into English, probably in Dublin.Ireland source
1719First service held in the rebuilt St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin (Church of Ireland), designed by Colonel Thomas Burgh, M.P., Surveyor General of Ireland.Ireland source
1719Allan Ramsay publishes Content and a new volume of Scots Songs.Scotland source
1719Christmas Samuel – Catecism o'r ScrythurWales source
1719The first permanent legal printing press in Wales is established at Adpar by Isaac Carter of Carmarthenshire. It is believed that its first two publications are Cân o Senn i’w hen Feistr Tobacco by Alban Thomas and Cân ar Fesur Triban ynghylch Cydwybod a’i Chynheddfau.Wales source
1720April 17 – Bajirao I is appointed as the Peshwa of the Maratha Empire by Chhatrapati Shahu, succeeding his father Peshwa.source
172010 August – The town of Moss was founded.Norway source
172020 November - A violent storm damages the northwest tower of Llandaff Cathedral. The southwest tower, reported in 1719 to be in a state of collapse, is further damaged, and a programme of restoration work begins.Wales source
1720Robert Roberts - A duo-glott-exposition of the Creed, the ten Commandments and the Lords Prayer, calculated for the borders of England and Wales, but particularly for the use of the parish of Chirk, whose inhabitants are partly Welsh and partly English, by R. R. A. M. Vicar of the said parish of ChirkWales source
1720Llandaff Cathedral is reported as being in a state of collapse.Wales source
17213 April – The funeral of Queen Louise takes place at Roskilde Cathedral.Denmark source
1721May 8 – Pope Innocent XIII succeeds Pope Clement XI, as the 244th pope.source
1721The title Baron Bessborough, of Bessborough, Piltown in the County of Kilkenny, is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of William Ponsonby.Ireland source
1721Robert Wodrow publishes The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland.Scotland source
1722April 2 – The first Silence Dogood letter, written by Benjamin Franklin, is printed.source
1722June - William Wotton returns to London, where he continues to work on his Leges Wallicae, a translation of the old laws of Wales.Wales source
17229 August – State funeral of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, takes place in London, where he is initially buried in the Henry VII Chapel of Westminster Abbey.United Kingdom source
1722First known Caslon serif typeface designed by William Caslon in London, the first original typeface of English origin.United Kingdom source
172322 March – 4 Protestant preachers are hanged at Montpellier.France source
1723May 30 – Johann Sebastian Bach assumed the office of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, presenting his first new cantata, Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75, in the St. Nicholas Church on the first Sunday after Trinity.source
1723June – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, receives a pardon for his part in the Jacobite Rebellion and is allowed to return to Britain, but not to sit in the House of Lords. Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, is banished from the country during the year for his part in Jacobite plotting.United Kingdom source
1723July 12 – Christian von Wolff holds a lecture for students and the magistrates at the end of his term as a rector, as a result of which he is banned from Prussia, on a charge of atheism.source
1723September 14 – Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.source
1723October - Following the death of Adam Ottley, bishop of St Davids, while in office, Richard Smalbroke, Treasurer of Llandaff, is selected as his successor.Wales source
1723December 14 – Bernard O'Gara is selected to succeed Francis Burke as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.Ireland source
1723The Nærøy manuscript was made.Norway source
1724March 20 – The 1724 papal conclave opens in Rome, 13 days after the death of Innocent XIII. Starting with 33 electors and eventually having 53, the conclave deliberates for more than two months before selecting a successor.source
1724May 13 – Cardinal Giulio Piazza, the Archbishop of Faenza, comes within four votes of being elected the new Popesource
1724May 29 – Cardinal Vincenzo Orsini, the Archbishop of Benevento, accepts the papacy, two days after being unanimously selected by the cardinals at the papal conclave in Rome. He becomes the 245th pontiff as Pope Benedict XIII.source
1724June 11 – Johann Sebastian Bach leads his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (O eternity, you word of thunder), BWV 20, on the first Sunday after Trinity, beginning his second cycle, the chorale cantata cycle.source
172414 September - Robert Clavering, a canon of Christ Church, Oxford, is nominated to succeed John Tyler as Bishop of Llandaff.Wales source
1724October 2 – Muhammad bin Nasir is elected as the new Imam of Oman after the overthrow of his brother, Saif bin Sultan II.source
1724December 2 – The Metropolitan Mojsije Petrović, leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church within the Habsburg monarchy, issues a 57-point decree to purge the church of the Turkish influence.source
1724Allan Ramsay publishes The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots Poems and co-writes and edits the first volume of The Tea-Table Miscellany, a collection of Scots songs, in Scots and English.Scotland source
1724William Wynne - The Life of Sir Leoline JenkinsWales source
1725May 15 – Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV 85, about Jesus as the Good Shepherd.source
172518 May – the Order of the Bath is founded by King George I.United Kingdom source
1725June 24 – The Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin holds its first recorded meeting, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry, and the oldest in continuous existence.source
1725June 24 – first recorded meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry, and the oldest in continuous existence.Ireland source
17251 October – The County of Scheel is established by Christen Skeel from the manors of Sostrup, Skærvad, Ørbækgaard, Steensmark, Debildhede, Skiern and Karmark.Denmark source
1725In Qing dynasty China, 66 copies of a 5,020 volume-long encyclopedia, the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China are printed, necessitating the crafting of 250,000 movable type characters cast in bronze.source
1725The Terengganu Sultanate is established at Terengganu Darul Iman (in modern Malaysia).source
1725Allan Ramsay publishes The Gentle Shepherd: A Scots pastoral comedy.Scotland source
1725Swedish count and politician Carl Gustaf Tessin is appointed ambassador to Vienna and becomes prominent in the Riksdag of the Estates.Sweden source
1725Alexander Pope produces an English language translation of Homer's Odyssey.United Kingdom source
1725Matthew Maddox becomes organist of St David's Cathedral.Wales source
1725William Lewis & Evan Pryce - Maddeuant i'r EdifairiolWales source
172612 January - Conventicle Act (Sweden)Sweden source
1726January 20 – J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen (My sighs, my tears), BWV 13, for the second Sunday after Epiphany.source
1726January 23 (January 12 Old Style) – The Conventicle Act (Konventikelplakatet) is adopted in Sweden, outlawing all non-Lutheran religious meetings outside of church services.source
1726September 11 – French bishop André-Hercule de Fleury, later Prime Minister for King Louis XV of France, is made a Roman Catholic Cardinal by Pope Benedict XIII.source
1726September 23 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues an order limiting the number of Jews who can be legally recognized as legitimate householders.source
1726September 24 – Permission to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, celebrated on July 17, is extended by Pope Benedict XIII to the entire Roman Catholic Church.source
172620 October – dedication of St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London as designed by James Gibbs.United Kingdom source
1726Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium PoeticumWales source
1727January 12 – Abd el-Sayed of Egypt is enthroned, as Pope John XVII of Alexandria becomes the leader of the Coptic Christian Church, as the 105th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Holy See of St. Mark. He will serve until his death on April 20, 1745.source
1727May 12 – History of the Moravian Church: The 18th century renewal: The Brotherly Agreement is adopted by the Moravian Church community at Herrnhut, under the influence of Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf, beginning the Church's renewal.source
172711 October – coronation of George II at Westminster Abbey. Handel's Coronation Anthems are composed for the event, including Zadok the Priest which is sung at every subsequent coronation.United Kingdom source
1727November 27 – The foundation stone of the Jerusalem's Church in Berlin is laid.source
1727Jonathan Swift's A Short View of the State of Ireland is written.Ireland source
1727Peter II took a bold step by stripping Menshikov of his titles and exiling him to Siberia and made an important shift in court politics.Russia source
1727Rowland Ellis - English translation of Ellis Pugh's Annerch ir Cymru (the first Welsh book printed in America)Wales source
1727William Gambold - A Grammar of the Welsh LanguageWales source
1727Matthias Maurice - Y Wir EglwysWales source
17284 February - Thomas Sherlock is consecrated Bishop of Bangor.Wales source
1728April 14 – Saint Serapion of Algiers, the first Mercedarian (of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy) is canonized by Pope Benedict XIII.source
1728May 6 – Disenfranchising Act, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, one of a series of penal laws, prohibiting all Roman Catholics from voting, receives royal assent.Ireland source
1728May 16 – Saint Margaret of Cortona, the patron saint of the falsely accused, homeless people and mental illness sufferers, is canonized.source
1728May 25 – Pope Gregory VII (Hildebrand of Sovana), who served as pontiff from 1073 to 1085, is canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.source
172814 June – Congress of Soissons begins in an effort to end the Anglo-Spanish War.United Kingdom source
1728August - Richard Smalbroke, Bishop of St Davids, commends the treatise on the authority of Scripture by Faustus Socinus, with the result that the work is translated into English and published in 1731 with a dedication to the Queen, Caroline of Ansbach.Wales source
1728First publication of Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie's The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436–1565, written about 1575 in the Scots language.Scotland source
1728John Roderick, Grammadeg CymraegWales source
1729March 19 – John of Nepomuk (Jan Nepomucký) of Bohemia is canonized by Pope Benedict XIII more than 300 years after being tortured and drowned in 1393 by order of King Wenceslaus IV; John becomes patron saint of Roman Catholics in the Czech Republic.source
1729April 15 – Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion, BWV 244b is performed again, at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.source
172919 October - John Harris is consecrated as Bishop of Llandaff.Wales source
1729Thomas Sherlock – The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of JesusWales source
1730March 5 – The 1730 papal conclave to elect a new Pope for the Roman Catholic church begins with 30 Cardinals, 12 days after the death of Pope Benedict XIII. By the time his successor is elected on July 12, there are 56 Cardinals.source
1730March 12 – John Glas is deposed from the Church of Scotland; the Glasite sect forms around him.source
173012 March – John Glas deposed from the Church of Scotland; the Glasite sect forms around him.Scotland source
1730April 8 – Congregation Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.source
1730July 12 – The papal conclave selects Cardinal Lorenzo Corsini over Cardinal Pietro Marcellino Corradini as the successor to Pope Benedict XIII. Corsini becomes Pope Clement XII as the 246th pope.source
173012 October – Christian VI becomes King of Denmark and NorwayDenmark source
1730Francis Hutcheson takes office as Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, where he will lecture in English rather than Latin.Scotland source
1730The first issue of the paper Sedo-lärande Mercurius.Sweden source
1730William Wotton (ed.) - Cyfreithieu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae (Laws of Hywel Dda)Wales source
17314 March – The Reformed Church in Copenhagen is reinaugurated after its rebuilding.Denmark source
17319 April – The Diocese of Dijon establishedFrance source
17317 October – The rebuilt Trinitatis Church is reinaugurated in Copenhagen.Denmark source
1731Proceedings in Courts of Justice Act 1730: Legal proceedings in the courts to be conducted in the English language.United Kingdom source
1731Edward Samuel - Athrawiaeth yr EglwysWales source
173223 January - Thomas Tanner becomes Bishop of St Asaph.Wales source
1732December – The paper Then Swänska Argus begin its publication.Sweden source
1732This year's General Assembly of the Church of Scotland gives rise to the First Secession of 1733.source
1732Charles-Michel Mesaiger was the first priest on Lake of the Woods and at Fort St. Charles.Canada source
1732Secession Church formed in Scotland.United Kingdom source
1732Jeremy Owen - Golwg ar y Beiau sydd yn yr Hanes a Brintiwyd ynghylch Pedair i Bump Mlynedd i nawr, ym mherthynas i'r Rhwygiad a wnaethpwyd yn Eglwys Henllan yny Blynyddoedd 1707, 1708, 1709Wales source
1732Bishop John Wynne purchases the Northop estate in Flintshire.Wales source
1732David Evans - A Help for parents and Heads of families ... by David Evans, a Labourer in the Gospel at Tredyffren in Pennsylvania (published in Philadelphia by B. Franklin)Wales source
1733March 25 – English replaces Latin and Law French as the official language of English and Scottish courts following the enforcement of the Proceedings in Courts of Justice Act 1730.source
173325 March – English replaces Latin and Law French as the official language of English and Scottish courts on coming into effect of the Proceedings in Courts of Justice Act 1730.United Kingdom source
1733May–December – First Secession from the Church of Scotland.Scotland source
173318 July – Christian VI travelled to Trondheim. A poem/speech by Peter Höyer was performed in his honor when he visited the city.Norway source
17335 December - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, is raised to the peerage.Wales source
1733Peter and Paul Cathedral was completedRussia source
1733Legal proceedings in the Welsh courts to be conducted in the English language.Wales source
173416 April – The County of Christiansholm is established by Christian Raben from the manors of Aalholm, Bramsløkke, Egholm and Stenvængegården.Denmark source
173429 April – Act prohibits converts from Roman Catholicism to the Church of Ireland from educating their children in the old religion or from becoming Justices of Peace.Ireland source
173419 May – George Berkeley is consecrated as Church of Ireland Bishop of Cloyne.Ireland source
1734November – George Faulkner begins publication of an edition of Jonathan Swift's Works in Dublin with a corrected text.Ireland source
1734A printing press was constructed in Saint John's monastery in Khinshara, Ottoman Lebanon and started printing Christian texts in Arabic.source
1734George Sale produces a translation of the Koran into English.United Kingdom source
1735January 2 – Alexander Pope's poem Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot is published in London.source
17352 January – Alexander Pope's poem Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot is published in London.United Kingdom source
173517 March - The Freemasonry is introduced to Sweden by Axel Wrede Sparre.Sweden source
173520 April – religious conversion of Howell Harris at Talgarth church, marking a beginning of the Welsh Methodist revival.United Kingdom source
173520 April – Religious conversion of Howell Harris at Talgarth, marking a beginning of the Welsh Methodist revival.Wales source
1735December 19 – At the age of 8 years old, Prince Luis of Spain becomes the youngest Roman Catholic Cardinal in history, after being named by Pope Clement XII.source
1735Catholic priest Jean-Pierre Aulneau went to Fort St. Charles with Pierre La Vérendrye as a missionary.Canada source
1735Vemmetofte Convent is established after the death of Princess Sophia Hedwig through her will.Denmark source
1735c. December – Bishop George Berkeley's economic text The Querist begins publication anonymously in Dublin.Ireland source
1735Unscrupulous London publisher Edmund Curll produces Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons containing forgeries.United Kingdom source
1736March 17 – act of the Parliament of Ireland for rebuilding Saint Finbar's Cathedral and erecting a workhouse in Cork.Ireland source
1736June 19 – Charles Cobbe, at this time Church of Ireland Bishop of Kildare, purchases the Newbridge Estate in County Kildare.Ireland source
17364 July - Isaac Maddox is consecrated Bishop of St Asaph. Maddox continues to reside in south-east England and rarely visits the diocese.Wales source
173628 July - John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff, becomes Dean of Wells Cathedral in succession to Isaac Maddox.Wales source
1736September 30 – The Lebanese Council of 1736 begins, a major turning point in the reform of the Maronite Church. In the following three days, the assembled Maronite and Latin clergy presided by Yusuf ibn Siman as-Simani discuss various reforms and elaborate rules and canons.source
1736December 26 – Andrew Michael Ramsay gives an oration, in which he relates the heritage and internationalism of Freemasonry to that of the Crusades.source
1736Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab writes the Kitab at-tawhidt, marking the beginning of Wahhabism.source
1736James Gallagher, Roman Catholic Bishop of Raphoe, publishes Sixteen Irish Sermons, in an easy and familiar stile, on useful and necessary subjects, in English characters, as being the more familiar to the generality of our Irish clergy in Dublin.Ireland source
1736Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh receives its royal charter.Scotland source
1736Grand Lodge of Scotland founded within Freemasonry in Scotland.Scotland source
1736Thomas Frye paints the Prince of Wales for the Worshipful Company of Saddlers.Wales source
1737January – John Potter appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury (installed 28 February).United Kingdom source
1737April 5 – French Jesuit priest Jean-François Régis is canonized as Saint Regis by the Roman Catholic Church under the reign of Pope Clement XII.source
1737April 5 – Jesuit priest Jean-François Régis is canonized as Saint Regis by the Roman Catholic Church under the reign of Pope Clement XII.France source
173728 November – Vallø Stift is established.Denmark source
1737Our Lady of Guadalupe is designated the patron saint of Mexico City.source
1737The first Moravian Church congregations in Norway is established in Christiania.Norway source
1737Georg Schmidt sets up his mission at Zoetemelksvlei, a military outpost near Caledon, marking the start of Protestant missionary activity in South Africa.South Africa source
1737Welsh Methodist revival: Religious conversion of William Williams Pantycelyn after hearing Howel Harris preach in Talgarth churchyard.United Kingdom source
1737Conversion of William Williams Pantycelyn to Methodism, after hearing Howel Harris preach in Talgarth churchyard.Wales source
1737Isaac Maddox, Bishop of St Asaph – The love of our country recommended: [for] the Societies for Reformation of Manners.Wales source
1738April 28 – Pope Clement XII issues the papal bull In eminenti apostolatus, prohibiting Roman Catholics from being members of Masonic societies.source
173814 May – John Wesley hears William Holland read from the work of Martin Luther, occasioning his own conversion.Wales source
1738June 27 – The Spanish Empire's Council of the Indies votes, 6 to 4, to re-establish the Viceroyalty of New Granada, incorporating modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Panama. King Philip V issues the order on August 20, 1738.source
1738September 18 – Samuel Johnson composes his first solemn prayer (published 1785).source
173818 September – Samuel Johnson composes his first solemn prayer (published 1785).United Kingdom source
1738Rev. Samuel Madden publishes Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland, as to their Conduct for the Service of their Country, as Landlords, as Masters of Families, as Protestants, as Descended from British Ancestors, as Country Gentlemen and Farmers, as Justices of the Peace, as Merchants, as Members of Parliament.Ireland source
1738The Fetter Lane Society is founded by followers of the Moravian Church in London.United Kingdom source
1738Anne Penny – Select Poems from Mr. Gesner's PastoralsWales source
1738A Baptist church is founded at Welsh Neck in South Carolina, United States.Wales source
1739May 12 – John Wesley lays the foundation stone of the New Room, Bristol in England, the world's first Methodist meeting house.source
173912 May – John Wesley lays the foundation stone of the New Room, Bristol, the world's first Methodist meeting house.United Kingdom source
1739October 12 – The town of Utuado, Puerto Rico was founded by Sebastian de Morfi.source
1739Suspended ministers of the "Associate Presbytery" (First Secession) led by Ebenezer Erskine are summoned to appear before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, but fail to attend because they do not acknowledge its authority.Scotland source
1739Rowland Ellis - A Salutation to the Britains (2nd London edition)Wales source
1739John Reynolds - The Scripture Genealogy and Display of HerauldryWales source
1740August 17 – Pope Benedict XIV succeeds Pope Clement XII, as the 247th pope.source
1740October 20 – Maria Theresa inherits the hereditary dominions of the Habsburg monarchy (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and modern-day Belgium) under the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 on the death of her father, Charles VI. Her succession to the Holy Roman Empire is contested widely because she is a woman, but she will reign for 40 years.source
1740December – Sagan om hästen by Olof von DalinSweden source
1740The fairy-tale Beauty and the Beast by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve was published.source
1740Approximate date − The mystical tradition called Martinism is established as a masonic high-degree order.France source
1740Construction of Kongsberg Church was initiated.Norway source
1740date unknown - William Williams Pantycelyn becomes a deacon and is appointed curate to Theophilus Evans at Llanfaes.Wales source
1740Howell Harris - Llyfr o Hymneu o Waith Amryw Awdwyr (collection of hymns)Wales source
1741January 13 – Conventicle Act of 1741 is introduced in Denmark-Norway.source
174113 January – The Conventicle Act of 1741 is enacted.Denmark source
174113 January - Conventicle Act of 1741 is introduced.Norway source
1741July 8 – Jonathan Edwards repeats his Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God sermon at Enfield, Connecticut.source
1741Morgan John Lewis – Hymnau Duwiol o Gasgliad Gwyr Eglwysig M.J. ac E.W.Wales source
1741Evan Davies – Newyddion Mawr Oddiwrth y Ser (vol. 3)Wales source
1741Carpenter Siarl Marc is converted and quickly becomes the most important Calvinistic Methodist exhorter in the Llyn peninsula.Wales source
1742January 24 – Charles VII becomes Holy Roman Emperor.source
1742March - The Free church; Zionittene is established.Norway source
1742Daniel le Pelley succeeds Nicolas le Pelley, as Seigneur of Sark.source
1742The Roman Catholic church decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in Latin (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions.source
1742Richard Farrington – Twenty SermonsWales source
17432 January - Edward Willes is consecrated Bishop of St David's.Wales source
1743January 16 – Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury turns his effects over to King Louis XV, 13 days before his death on January 29.source
174314 February: Finnur Jónsson is appointed official of the Diocese of Skálholt, serving as bishop until a new bishop has been elected after the death of Jón Árnason.Iceland source
1743April 1 – Pope Benedict XIV issues a new bill, barring agreements by spouses not to appeal annulments of marriagessource
174321 April - Thomas Herring becomes Archbishop of York and is replaced as Bishop of Bangor by Matthew Hutton. Both men go on to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury.Wales source
17432 August – The Barony of Christiansdal is established by Ide Margrethe Reventlow from the manors of Adserstrup and Grimsted.Denmark source
1743November - John Thomas is elected to replace Isaac Maddox as Bishop of St Asaph, but is translated to the bishopric of Lincoln before his consecration and is himself replaced at St Asaph by Samuel Lisle.Wales source
1743William Williams (Pantycelyn) is refused ordination as a priest because of his Methodist activities; from this time on he commits himself entirely to the Methodist movement.Wales source
17441 April - The Hon. Richard Trevor is consecrated as Bishop of St David's, replacing Edward Willes. Samuel Lisle is consecrated as Bishop of St Asaph on the same day.Wales source
174420 April – Arthur Price is translated from Meath to become Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel (letters patent 7 May).Ireland source
174431 December - The town of Holmestrand was founded.Norway source
1744Ludvig Harboe became bishop of Skálholt.Iceland source
1744Jane Brereton - Poems on several occasions (posthumously published)Wales source
1744date unknown - Richard Morris is selected by the S.P.C.K. to supervise the production of its edition of the Welsh Bible.Wales source
1745March 1 – Augustus III, the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, declares his candidacy to become the next Holy Roman Emperor, but loses in September to Francis, Duke of Tuscany.source
1745September 12 – Francis I, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, is elected Holy Roman Emperor by the nine prince-electors of the Empire (from Bavaria, Bohemia, Brandenburg, Cologne, Hanover, Mainz, the Palatinate, Saxony and Trier) with the support of his wife, Maria Theresa. He is the successor of Charles VII Albert of Bavaria, an enemy of the House of Habsburg, who died on January 20 of this year.source
174517 September – Jacobite rising: In Edinburgh, Charles Stuart proclaims his father James Francis Edward Stuart as James VIII of Scotland.Scotland source
1745October 4 – Francis is crowned as the new Holy Roman Emperor.source
174519 October – Jonathan Swift, satirist and Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, dies aged 78. His body is laid out in public for the people of Dublin to pay their last respects, and he is buried, in accordance with his wishes, in his cathedral by Esther Johnson's side with his own epitaph: Ubi sæva Indignatio / Ulterius / Cor lacerare nequit ("where savage indignation can no longer lacerate the heart").Ireland source
1745November 1 – Pope Benedict XIV issues the encyclical Vix pervenit, referred to in English as "On Usury and Other Dishonest Profit", to the bishops of Italy, condemning the charging of interest on loans as a sin against the Roman Catholic Church.source
1745Ludvig Harboe returned to Copenhagen after spending four years in Iceland, serving as Bishop of Hólar from 1741 to 1745 and Bishop of Skálholt from 1744 to 1745.Iceland source
1745Halldór Brynjólfsson was chosen Bishop of Hólar.Iceland source
1745West towers of Westminster Abbey completed.United Kingdom source
1745An Apology for the Welsh Knight..., etcWales source
1745An Expostulatory Epistle to the Welsh Knight..., etcWales source
174610 February – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath forms the Short-lived Ministry following the resignation of Henry Pelham. It lasts a mere two days.United Kingdom source
174611 April – to annul future marriages celebrated by Roman Catholic priests if either (or both) of the parties are Protestant.Ireland source
1746June 18 – Samuel Johnson is contracted to write his A Dictionary of the English Language.source
174618 June – Samuel Johnson is contracted to write his A Dictionary of the English Language.United Kingdom source
1746June 29 – Catherine of Ricci (born 1522) is canonized.source
1746June – English preacher John Cennick arrives in Ireland to evangelise for the Moravian Church.Ireland source
1746July 3 – Father Joachim Royo, the last of the five Spanish Catholic missionaries to Fuzhou in China, is captured by Chinese authorities, after having spent three decades defying orders to not evangelize.source
1746October – foundation stone of new Inveraray Castle laid.Scotland source
17469 December – Carl Gustaf Tessin succeed Carl Gyllenborg as Privy Council Chancellery.Sweden source
1746The town of Vilkovo (Odes'ka oblast', Ukraine) is founded.source
1746Sidney Griffith joins the Methodist movement, after hearing a sermon by Peter Williams.Wales source
1746Construction of The Cathedral School, Llandaff, and the "Italian Temple", both designed by John Wood, the Elder, is completed.Wales source
1747March 22 — The Prussian ambassador in Vienna, Count Otto Christoph von Podewils, described the then five-year-old Maria Christina as pretty and witty.Austria source
174715 June – Indemnity Act ("Act of Grace") lifts further legal penalties from some participants in the Jacobite rising of 1745.United Kingdom source
174711 September – Daniel O'Reilly is appointed to succeed Ross MacMahon as Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, an office he will hold until 1778.Ireland source
174718 October - Høydalsmo Church was consecrated.Norway source
1747October 21 – King George II transfers Thomas Herring, Archbishop of York, to become the new Archbishop of Canterbury, three days after the death of John Pottersource
1747Count Adam Gottlob Moltke was made a privy councillor by Frederick V, who gave him the estate of Bregentved.Denmark source
1747Oluf Borch was ennobled, and given the noble family name de Schouboe.Norway source
1747Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery Established.Russia source
1747William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (hymns)Wales source
17488 March - With the death of the childless William Herbert, 3rd Marquess of Powis, the title becomes extinct. Henry Arthur Herbert subsequently becomes 1st Earl of Powis.Wales source
1748August 26 – The first Lutheran Church body in America is founded at a conference in Philadelphia, organized by German-born evangelist Henry Muhlenberg and attended by pastors of orthodox and pious Lutheran communities. The two groups agree to create a common liturgy to govern public worship.source
1748November 22 – The Electorate of Hanover (now occupied by most of the northwestern German state of Niedersachsen or Lower Saxony) issues a decree banishing all adherents of the Moravian Church.source
17488 December - Røn Church is completed.Norway source
1748Clergy of the Scottish Episcopal Church are forbidden to officiate unless ordained by an English (or Irish) bishop.Scotland source
174924 June - The first Masonic lodge is established in Norway (Lodge St. Olaus to the white Leopard).Norway source
1749October 4 – What is later described as "the least examined yet most influential" of clerical reforms, by the Spanish Bourbon monarchs of the 18th century, begins when King Ferdinand VI approves a royal cédula, removing control of the Roman Catholic parishes of Latin America from religious orders. Henceforward, jurisdiction over parishioners in the archdioceses of Lima, Mexico City and Bogotá is with the secular clergy.source
1749December 1 – Sultan Azim ud-Din I, recently forced to flee to Manila after being driven from the throne of Sultanate of Sulu elsewhere in the Philippine Islands, announces his intention to convert from Sunni Islam to become baptized as a Christian within the Roman Catholic Church. He changes his name to Fernando after being baptized.source
1749La Vérendrye was awarded the cross of Saint Louis, in honour of his career.Canada source
1749Pope Pope Benedict XIV gave John V of Portugal the title "His Most Faithful Majesty"Portugal source
1750April 14 – The Viceroy of New Spain, Juan Francisco de Güemes, issues a notice to the missionaries in Nuevo Santander (which includes parts of what are now the U.S. state of Texas, including San Antonio, and the Mexican state of Tamaulipas) to work peacefully to convert the indigenous Karankawa people to Roman Catholicism.source
1750Daniel Rowland - Ymddiddan rhwng Methodist Uniawngred ac un CyfeiliornusWales source
1750"Disruption of 1750": Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland quarrel, resulting in a lasting split in the Welsh Methodist movement.Wales source
17515 October – the title Earl of Upper Ossory is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of John FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Gowran.Ireland source
17511751–1775 – 13 per cent of appointees to audiencias in the Spanish Empire are Creoles.source
1752January – The castrum doloris of Louise in Christiansborg Chapel.Denmark source
1752March 18 – The electors of the Republic of Venice (which includes not only a large part of northern Italy around the city of Venice, but portions of Eastern Europe along the Adriatic Sea) elect Francesco Loredan as their new executive, the Doge. Loredan's election comes 11 days after the death of the previous Doge, Pietro Grimani, but is not announced until after Easter Sunday.source
175228 August – Belfast Charitable Society, established to open the poorhouse which will become Clifton House, Belfast, first meets.Ireland source
17529 November – Richard Trevor becomes Bishop of Durham.Wales source
1752c. July – Methodist church opens in Whitefriar Street, Dublin.Ireland source
1752The Church of Ireland Bishoprics of Killaloe and Kilfenora are united under the Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora.Ireland source
1752John Evans – Some Account of the Welch Charity SchoolsWales source
1752The first Methodist chapel in Caernarfonshire is built on land adjoining Tŷ-mawr farm, Bryncroes.Wales source
1753William Wogan – Essay on the Proper Lessons of the Church of EnglandWales source
1753Thomas Richards of Coychurch – Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ thesaurus (English-Welsh dictionary)Wales source
1754December 13 – Osman III succeeds his brother Mahmud I as Ottoman Emperor; he will rule until his death in 1757.source
1754St. Florian's Martyr Greek Catholic Church, Budapest is built.source
1754Construction of Transfiguration Cathedral (Saint Petersburg)Russia source
1754Mêr Difinyddiaeth Iachus (second edition, with a preface by Morgan Jones)Wales source
1754Ben Simon (ed.) – Collected works of Dafydd ap GwilymWales source
1754Richard Rees – Collected sermons, published by Philip CharlesWales source
1755November 25 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants the Religious of the Virgin Mary in the Philippines royal protection.source
1755December 17 – Anton, Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, is dismissed by his opponents on the Ecclesiastical Council and briefly imprisoned for 18 months before being allowed to move to Russia; in 1764, Anton is again made the Georgian Orthodox Church's leader.source
1755Construction of St Ninian's Church, Tynet, Scotland, the country's oldest surviving post-Reformation Roman Catholic clandestine church, is completed.source
1755Construction of the Puning Temple complex in Chengde, China is completed, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.source
1755Kilwarlin Moravian Church is founded in County Down by the evangelist John Cennick.Ireland source
1755Construction of St Ninian's Church, Tynet, the country's oldest surviving post-Reformation Roman Catholic clandestine church.Scotland source
1755David Dalrymple, as editor, publishes Edom of Gordon: an ancient Scottish poem.Scotland source
1755Building of St Ninian's Church, Tynet, Scotland, the country's oldest surviving post-Reformation Roman Catholic clandestine church.United Kingdom source
1755Rules of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion are published.Wales source
1755Morgan Rhys – Golwg o Ben Nebo, ar Wlad yr Addewid (collection of hymns)Wales source
1756January – Tobias Smollett becomes the first editor of The Critical Review, published in Edinburgh.Scotland source
175630 May – the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise is formed by merger of the Bishopric of Ardagh with that of Clonmacnoise. Augustine Cheevers serves as first bishop until August when he is succeeded by Anthony Blake.Ireland source
1756Two books of Icelandic sagas were published at Hólar, Ágætar fornmannasögur and Nokkrir margfróðir söguþættir.Iceland source
1756The title Earl of Lanesborough is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Humphrey Butler, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough.Ireland source
1756The title Earl of Shannon is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of the politician Henry Boyle.Ireland source
1757January 12 – Koca Ragıp Pasha becomes the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, and administers the office for seven years until his death in 1763.source
175729 March – Matthew Hutton is nominated as Archbishop of Canterbury, being translated from York.United Kingdom source
1757May – the Baskerville typeface, designed by John Baskerville of Birmingham, is first used in a wove paper quarto edition of Virgil.United Kingdom source
1757December 31 – the title of Viscount Ligonier of Enniskillen is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Field Marshal John Ligonier.Ireland source
1757Emanuel Swedenborg claims to have witnessed the Last Judgment occurring in the spiritual world.source
1757A firman (decree) of Ottoman sultan Osman III (died October 30) preserves the division of ownership and responsibilities of various Christian holy places in Jerusalem and Bethlehem (e.g. the former's Church of the Holy Sepulchre); this becomes established as the Status Quo in international law.source
1757Catholic Committee, to press for repeal of the penal laws against Roman Catholics, is established by Charles O'Conor, John Curry and Mr. Wyse of Waterford. O'Conor publishes The Protestant Interest of Ireland Considered.Ireland source
1757Edward Evans – translation of S. Bourne's CatechismWales source
1757Elizabeth Griffith – A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and FrancesWales source
1757William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Rhai Hymnau a Chaniadau DuwiolWales source
175821 April – Thomas Secker enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.United Kingdom source
1758July 6 – Pope Clement XIII succeeds Pope Benedict XIV, as the 248th pope.source
175813 July – Josiah Tucker becomes Dean of Gloucester.Wales source
1758John Thomas – Caniadau Siôn, vol. 1Wales source
1759January – Journal des Dames published in France.France source
1759February 12 – Ali II ibn Hussein becomes the new Ruler of Tunisia upon the death of his brother, Muhammad I ar-Rashid. Ali reigns for 23 years until his death in 1782.source
17595 March – Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie is proscribed by the Vatican and (on March 8) temporarily suppressed by the French government; the ban is lifted in September to allow publication of a revised versionFrance source
17591 May – the foundation of Wedgwood potteryUnited Kingdom source
1759Formation of the Irish Catholic Committee, of Dublin merchants and professionals loyal to the British monarchy.Ireland source
1759The Old Olden Church was built.Norway source
1759Mathias Maurice – Social Religion Exemplify'dWales source
1759Blodeu-gerdd Cymry (ed. Dafydd Jones)Wales source
1759date unknown – Evan Davies resigns as head of the Welsh Academy, following a rift between the Presbyterian and Congregational Fund Boards.Wales source
1760June – Scottish Presbyterian preacher Dr. James Fordyce moves to London.United Kingdom source
1760August 21 – The church (later cathedral) of Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez (Puerto Rico) is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city in the following month.source
1760September 6 to September 7 – A council of war, at Montreal, favors capitulation.Canada source
1760September 18 – The town (later city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, is founded.source
1760approximate date – Abu Dhabi is founded.source
1760Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters was founded in Trondheim by the bishop of Nidaros Johan Ernst Gunnerus, headmaster at the Trondheim Cathedral School Gerhard Schøning and Councillor of State Peter Frederik Suhm under the name Det Trondhiemske Selskab (the Trondheim Society).Norway source
1760Llangeitho's noted Methodist chapel is built.Wales source
1760William Lloyd – Y Sacrament a'r Aberth CristionogolWales source
176110 April – Claes Ekeblad appointed Privy Council Chancellery.Sweden source
176122 September – coronation of King George III and Queen Charlotte at Westminster Abbey.United Kingdom source
176122 October – Relief Church founded as a liberal Presbyterian denomination at Colinsburgh by Thomas Gillespie, Thomas Boston and Thomas Colier.Scotland source
176110 November – Protestant "manifesto of intolerance" ("Black Petition") against Roman Catholics signed in Galway.Ireland source
1761First church of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion opened, in Brighton.United Kingdom source
1761John Wesley – Rules of the United Societies, translated into Welsh by John Evans of Bala.Wales source
176223 March – first legitimately constituted Sandemanian congregation in England, at Glover's Hall in London, as an offshoot of the Scottish Glasite sect.United Kingdom source
176230 April – acts grant security to Protestants who have acquired property from Catholics.Ireland source
1762May 31 – Marco Foscarini becomes the new Doge of the Republic of Venice after the death of Francesco Loredan, who had administered the Republic for 10 years.source
1762Approximate date of the foundation of Zubarah on the northwestern shore of the Qatari Peninsula, by Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, who assumes the chieftainship of the city state and gains authority over the Arab tribes in the area.source
1762The Plymouth Synagogue is built in Plymouth, England, the oldest built by Ashkenazi Jews in the English-speaking world.source
1762Approximate date – James Barry paints Baptism of the King of Cashel.Ireland source
1762Building of the Plymouth Synagogue, the oldest built by Ashkenazi Jews in the English-speaking world.United Kingdom source
1762William Williams Pantycelyn – Mor o Wydr (including "Gweddi am Nerth i fyned trwy anialwch y Byd", the Welsh original of the hymn "Cwm Rhondda")Wales source
1762Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) – Tri Chydymaith DynWales source
1762William Williams Pantycelyn – Pantheologia, neu Hanes Holl Grefyddau’r BydWales source
1763April 11 – Britain allows Canadians the free exercise of their religion.Canada source
176316 April – John Butler is appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork.Ireland source
1763April – a presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland, separate from that in Scotland, is organised.Ireland source
176320 November: Hólar Cathedral was consecrated, following completion earlier in the year,Iceland source
176323 November – Nykirken was consecrated.Norway source
1763December 2 – Touro Synagogue, Newport, Rhode Island, is dedicated; by the end of the 20th century, this will be the oldest surviving synagogue in North America.source
1763Bergenhus amt was divided in two, creating the following amt – Nordre Bergenhus amt and Søndre Bergenhus amt.Norway source
1763Aaron Williams – The Universal PsalmodistWales source
1763Goronwy Owen, Lewis Morris et al. – Diddanwch TeuluaiddWales source
1764March 27 – The prince-electors, a group of nine German princes who select the next leader of the Holy Roman Empire, vote for the last time as the health of the Emperor Francis I declines. The electors (including Britain's King George III, who also rules as Elector of Hanover) approve Francis's son, Prince Joseph of Austria as King of the Romans. Upon the death of Francis in 1765, Prince Joseph becomes the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II.source
1764French Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse perfect a commercial recipe for Chartreuse (liqueur).source
1764Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse perfect a commercial recipe for Chartreuse (liqueur).France source
1764Porsgrunn prestegjeld (parish) was separated from the ancient rural parishes of Eidanger, Solum, and Gjerpen.Norway source
1764New liturgy for the Scottish Episcopal Church published in Edinburgh.Scotland source
1764Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh BardsWales source
1765August 18 – Joseph II becomes Holy Roman Emperor.source
1765Desai Atash Behram is established in Navsari, India.source
1765The Icelandic Manuscript, SÁM 66 was written.Iceland source
1765First Magdalene asylum (for Protestant girls) in Ireland opens on Leeson Street in Dublin, founded by Lady Arabella Denny.Ireland source
1765Gracehill established in County Antrim as a Moravian community.Ireland source
1765John Jones – Catholic Faith and PracticeWales source
17661 January – Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie", "the young Pretender") becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Charles III and figurehead for Jacobitism, on the death of his father James Francis Edward Stuart in Rome.Scotland source
17661 January – Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Charles III and figurehead for Jacobitism, on the death of his father James Francis Edward Stuart, Pretender since 1701. However, the papacy does not recognise his claim, leading to an improvement in British relations with the Holy See.United Kingdom source
1766January 14 – Christian VII becomes King of Denmark-Norway.source
176614 January – Crown Prince Christian becomes King Christian VII of Denmark.Denmark source
17664 March – The funeral of Frederick V of Denmark takes place at Roskilde Cathedral.Denmark source
17661 July – establishment of the first Volunteers of Ireland corps.Ireland source
1766September 13 – The position of Patriarch of the Serbs, established on April 9, 1346 as the authority over the Serbian Orthodox Church, is abolished by order of Sultan Mustafa III of the Ottoman Empire; the patriarchate is not re-established until 1920 following the creation of Yugoslavia at the end of World War One.source
1766Elis Roberts - Oliffernes a JiwdathWales source
1766John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Drych y CristionWales source
1766David Jones of Trefriw (ed.) - Cydymaith DiddanWales source
1767February 27 – King Carlos III of Spain issues a decree expelling the Jesuits from the dominions of the Spanish Empire worldwide.source
1767March 31 – Enforcement begins of the February 27 decree by King Carlos III of Spain, ordering the suppression of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in the colonies in Spanish America. Over the next few months approximately 2,200 Jesuit priests and missionaries are deported.source
1767April 2 – Suppression of the Jesuits begins, in the Spanish Empire and Kingdom of Naples.source
1767May 16 – Ahmed al-Ghazzal, the emissary from Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah of Morocco to the Spanish Empire, makes a triumphant return to Marrakesh with almost 300 Muslims who had been held captive in Spain, as well as sacred Islamic manuscripts that had been seized by the Spanish in 1612. The negotiation of the release had started with al-Ghazzal's meeting with Spain's King Carlos III on August 21, 1766.source
176724 October – Several anti-Jewish regulations in place since 1661, are repealed by the King's Council. While Jewish merchants are still prohibited from owning their own retail stores, they are allowed to sell merchandise on credit to gentile merchants at legal interest rates, to legally enforce debts, and to sell jewelry.France source
1767November 3 – King Ferdinand IV of the Spanish dominated Kingdom of Naples follows Spain's lead and orders the expulsion of the Jesuits from Naples and has them marched northward to the Neapolitan border with the Papal States.source
1767November 4 – Francisco de Paula Bucareli, the Governor of Buenos Aires (at the time, a province within the Spanish Empire's Viceroyalty of Peru), hosts the caciques who are the Guarani chiefs of the 30 mission towns established by Jesuit missionaries, in an effort to gain Guarani peoples' support in the expulsion of the Jesuits.source
1767A Magdalen Asylum was established by Lady Arabella Denny in Leeson Street, for Protestant women.Ireland source
1767The titles Earl of Howth and Viscount St Lawrence are created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Thomas St Lawrence, 15th Baron Howth.Ireland source
1767The circular Kilarrow Parish Church in Bowmore on Islay is built.Scotland source
1767Tankar i anledning af Sista Öfwerflöds-Förordningen Och Dess wärkställighet; Fattade i pennan, och Dedicerade til MALCONTENTERNE, Af En Fri Svensk, by Françoise Marguerite JaniçonSweden source
1767Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu) - Traethawd ar Fywyd FfyddWales source
1767date unknown - On the death of Daniel Lewis, another local Baptist, Rachel Lewis, hosts meetings of multiple denominations in her home at Merthyr Tydfil.Wales source
176818 February – The Hon. Frederick Augustus Hervey, later 4th Earl of Bristol, is appointed Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry (being translated from Cloyne), an office he will hold until his death in 1803.Ireland source
1768June 14 – The largest mass meeting ever held in New England, up to this time, takes place at the Old South Church to support a petition demanding that the British remove a ship which has been hindering navigation in Boston Harbor.source
176824 August - A seminary is founded at Trefeca-isaf for the training of evangelical preachers, with financial assistance from Selina, Countess of Huntingdon.Wales source
1768Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, the founder of the Al Khalifa dynasty, constructed Qal'at Murair in the town of Zubarah in present-day Qatar. The fortress served to consolidate his control over Zubarah and neighboring tribes.source
1768Bishop John O'Brien's Irish-English dictionary, Focaloir Gaoidhilge-Sacs-Bhéarla, is published posthumously and anonymously in Paris.Ireland source
1768Frederick Cornwallis enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.United Kingdom source
1768Oldest Jews' burial ground in Wales established at Swansea.Wales source
1768Controversial Bishop of Bangor John Egerton is translated to the see of Lichfield in England.Wales source
1768Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Y Farddoneg FabilonaiddWales source
1768John Griffith - Some Brief Remarks upon Sundry Important Subjects ... principally addressed to the ... Quakers ...Wales source
1769March 4 – Mozart departs Italy, after the last of his three tours there.source
1769May 19 – Cardinal Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli is elected as the 249th pope, succeeding the late Clement XIII and choosing to take the regnal name of Pope Clement XIV.source
1769July 16 – Father Junípero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the 21 California missions.source
1770October 11 – Phillis Wheatley becomes the first African American woman to have her work published, after having written a poetic elegy to the late Reverend George Whitefield.source
1770December 24 – France's Secretary of the Navy, César Gabriel de Choiseul, is dismissed from his position by the king.source
177024 December – César Gabriel de Choiseul is dismissed from his position as Secretary of the Navy by the kingFrance source
1770Cemetery of Saint-Louis, Versailles establishedFrance source
1770Emigrants from the Highland Clearances in the Hebrides migrate to Prince Edward Island, and to Glasgow where the Gaelic-speaking congregation of St Columba Church of Scotland is formed.Scotland source
1770Thomas Meredith - An Illustration of Several Texts of ScriptureWales source
1770Robert Jones (Calvinistic Methodist) - Lleferydd yr AsynWales source
1771February 12 – Upon the death of Adolf Frederick, he is succeeded as King of Sweden by his son Gustav III. At the time, however, Gustav is unaware of this, since he is abroad in Paris; the news of his father's death reaches him about a month later.source
17717 August – foundation stone of Clifton House, Belfast, the Belfast Charitable Society's poorhouse, is laid.Ireland source
1771Construction of the Putuo Zongcheng Temple complex in Chengde, China is completed during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.source
1771Archbishop Richard Robinson founds the Armagh Public Library.Ireland source
1771The first of the Roman Catholic relief bills passes into law, permitting Catholics to reclaim and hold under lease for sixty-one years 50 acres (20 ha) of bog if more than a mile of any city or market town.Ireland source
1771Henry Evans - Cynghorion Tad i'w Fab (translated from English)Wales source
1771Peter Williams (1722-1796) - Hymns on Various Subjects (includes "Prayer for Strength", the first English translation of the hymn "Cwm Rhondda")Wales source
1772February - The pamphlet Det Olyckliga Swenska Fruentimrets Böneskrift till Allmänheten by Anna Maria Rückerschöld, counted as one of the first feminist publications in the women's issue in Sweden.Sweden source
1772September 1 – Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.source
1772Daniel Rowland - Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o HymnauWales source
1772Job Orton - Eglwys yn y Ty : neu Bregeth am Grefydd-Deuluaidd.Wales source
1773January 1 – The hymn that becomes known as Amazing Grace, at this time titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17", is first used to accompany a sermon led by curate John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.source
17731 January – the words of the hymn "Amazing Grace" (written by the curate John Newton) are probably first used in a prayer meeting at Olney, Buckinghamshire.United Kingdom source
1773February 8 – The Grand Council of Poland meets in Warsaw, summoned by a circular letter from King Stanisław August Poniatowski to respond to the Kingdom's threatened partition between three foreign powers.source
1773February 27 – The construction of Christ Church (Alexandria, Virginia), known for being the house of worship for George Washington and the visiting site for subsequent U.S. presidents, is completed.source
1773July 14 – The first annual conference of American Methodists is convened at Philadelphia in St. George's Church.source
1773July 21 – Under pressure from the Bourbon courts, Pope Clement XIV suppresses the Society of Jesus (brief Dominus ac Redemptor). Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, expels the order from his territories.source
1773Lord Dartmouth promises Canadians just and considerate treatment respecting their religion.Canada source
1773The Printing house on Hrappsey begins printing, notably being the first printing house to print solely secular writings.Iceland source
1773Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - Rhybudd Cyfr-drist i'r Diofal a DifrawWales source
1774February 3 – The Privy Council of Great Britain, as advisors to King George III, votes for the King's abolition of free land grants of North American lands. Henceforward, land is to be sold at auction to the highest bidder.source
177422 February - The town of Stathelle was founded.Norway source
1774April 17 – The first avowedly Unitarian congregation, Essex Street Chapel, is founded in London by Theophilus Lindsey.source
177417 April – the first avowedly Unitarian congregation, Essex Street Chapel in London, is founded by Theophilus Lindsey.United Kingdom source
177427 November – The Order of the Chain is founded in Copenhagen.Denmark source
1774December 23 – King Louis XVI of France issues a declaration that, for the first time, protects "the free commerce of meat during Lent" to support the needs of "the poor whose infirmity requires them to eat meat."source
1774New buildings in Armagh provided by Archbishop Richard Robinson are completed for the County Infirmary, Royal School and Military Barracks.Ireland source
1774Roman Catholic chapel built on the site that will become St Peter's Church, Aberdeen.Scotland source
1774Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) - Cydymaith yr HwsmonWales source
1774William Williams Pantycelyn - Ychydig Hymnau (hymns)Wales source
1774Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch FfransisWales source
1775February 15 – Pope Pius VI succeeds Pope Clement XIV as the 250th pope.source
1775March 17 – Catherine the Great of Russia issues a manifesto prohibiting freed serfs from being returned to serfdom.source
1775May 1 – A bust of George III is found, in Montreal, adorned with beads, cross, and mitre, with the words "Pope of Canada: Sot of England." A reward of 500 guineas does not lead to apprehension of the culprit.Canada source
177511 June – Coronation of Louis XVI in Reims Cathedral, the last to take place during the Ancien régimeFrance source
1775Shneur Zalman of Liadi founds the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Jewish dynasty.source
1775Henry Flood accepts a seat on the Privy Council of Ireland and becomes vice-treasurer.Ireland source
1775Elizabeth Griffith - The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama IllustratedWales source
1775Dafydd Jones - Hymnau a Chaniadau Ysprydol (hymns and psalms)Wales source
1775Morgan Rhys - Golwg o Ben Nebo, 3rd ed. (collection of hymns)Wales source
1776March 28 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.source
1776April 29 – Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase and Rev. John Carroll, a Jesuit, urge Canadians to send delegates to Congress, promising toleration. Franklin brings a printer and press, for a newspaper, to mould public opinion. Canadians regard Franklin as an enemy, and the priests remind Father Carroll that, unlike some of the Provinces, Britain tolerates the Romish Church.Canada source
1776May 1 – Adam Weishaupt founds the Illuminati in Ingolstadt, Bavaria.source
1776October 9 – Father Francisco Palóu founds the Mission San Francisco de Asís, in what becomes San Francisco.source
1776October 9 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what becomes San Francisco, California.United States source
17762 December - The Swedish Freedom of Print.Sweden source
1776December 21 – The North Carolina Council of State is formed by the constitutional convention of North Carolina.United States source
1776Thomas Churchyard – The Worthines of Wales, a PoemWales source
1777January 12 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what becomes Santa Clara, California.source
1777January 12 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.United States source
177719 February – the Langrishe Baronetcy, of Knocktopher Abbey in the County of Kilkenny, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for Hercules Langrishe, Member of Parliament for Knocktopher in the Irish House of Commons.Ireland source
1777May 9 – The first session of the North Carolina General Assembly of 1777 ends and charters Johnston County Court House as Smithfield.United States source
177711 September – first minister ordained to United Presbyterian Church, Thurso; first church building opens this year.Scotland source
1777October 16 – Articles of Capitulation of 5,782 British, under Burgoyne are written.Canada source
1777November 29 – San Jose, California, is founded. It is the first pueblo in Spanish Alta California.source
1777Old Nordre Osen Church was built.Norway source
1777Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod CristWales source
177828 March – Hugh O'Reilly succeeds Daniel O'Reilly as Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, an office he will hold until 1801.Ireland source
1778May 30 – Benedict Arnold signs the U.S. Oath of Allegiance at Valley Forge.source
17783 June – Papists Act is the first to provide a measure of Catholic relief.United Kingdom source
17789 September - Benjamin Millingchamp, is appointed chaplain on board the flagship of Admiral Sir Edward Hughes.Wales source
1778The city of Ulaanbaatar is settled at its present location, having functioned as a mobile monastic settlement since 1639.source
1778Papists Act provides a measure of Catholic Relief: Catholics now have property rights and may intermarry; and restoration of Catholic religious institutions begins.Ireland source
1778Claus Fasting starts publishing the literary magazine Provinzialblade, in Bergen.Norway source
1778The sweet wines of Constantia receive international acclaim and became known throughout the world as “Constantia Wyn”.South Africa source
1778Thomas Jones - Traethiadau ar Gatecism Eglwys Loegr: gyda phregeth ar Gonffirmasiwn (translation)Wales source
1778Claiming himself as a prophet, watchmaker James Birch founds his own religious sect, the "Birchites", in Pembrokeshire.Wales source
1779July 16 – Declaratory Rescript of the Illyrian Nation issued in order to regulate organization of Eastern Orthodox Church in Habsburg monarchy.source
1779New Church of Ireland Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford, completed.Ireland source
1779The Bible Society, predecessor of the Naval, Military and Air Force Bible Society, formed in London.United Kingdom source
1779Robert Jones, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, preaches in London.Wales source
1779David William - Joy in the Tents of Zion (English edition)Wales source
1780Nikephoros Theotokis starts introducing Edinoverie, an attempt to integrate the Old Believers into Russia's established church.source
1780Kilcalmonell Parish Church at Clachan, Kintyre, is rebuilt.Scotland source
1780The market town of Middleton, Dorset, is demolished by order of the landowner, Joseph Damer, Lord Milton, and the population moved to a new model village, Milton Abbas.United Kingdom source
1780Henry Mills of Llanidloes impresses Thomas Charles so much with his singing that he is appointed to supervise the improvement of congregational singing in the district.Wales source
178124 January - Tolerance Act (Sweden)Sweden source
178123 February - Hans Eilersen Hagerup was ennobled, and given the noble family name Gyldenpalm.Norway source
1781March 16 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in Vienna after being fired by the Archbishop of Salzburg. He would stay there for the rest of his brief life.source
178111 April - Oplandenes amt was split into two, with the western part becoming Kristians amt and the eastern part becoming Hedemarkens amt.Norway source
178118 June – The county of Lindenborg is established by Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann from the manors of Lindenborg, Gudumlund, Vildmosegaard, Tiendegården, Henriksdal, Louisendal and Thoruphedegård.Denmark source
1781Edvard Storm writes Zinklars vise ("Ballad of Sinclair").Norway source
1781John Howie begins publication of the 2nd edition of his Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies): A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies.Scotland source
1782March 31 (Easter Sunday) – Mission San Buenaventura is founded in Las Californias, part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.source
1782July – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, receives a visit from Pope Pius VI.source
1782Repeal of the Education Act 1695: Roman Catholics may now send their children abroad to be educated; they may also now teach classes within Ireland.Ireland source
1782Greek Church and Greek School (Taganrog) - church consecratedRussia source
1782Jesuit priest Robert Molyneux establishes the first parochial school in the United States in Philadelphia.United States source
1782William Williams Pantycelyn - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion (second in a series of hymn collections)Wales source
1782John Walters - Translated Specimens of Welsh PoetryWales source
1783March 2 - Francisco Salzillo, sculptor (born 1707)Spain source
178310 May – John Moore enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.United Kingdom source
178325 June – the Bank of Ireland opens for business in a former private residence at Mary's Abbey off Capel Street in Dublin and begins to issue notes.Ireland source
1783November 24 – In Spain, the Cedula of Population is signed, stating that anyone who will swear fealty to Spain and is of the Roman Catholic faith is welcome to populate Trinidad and Tobago.source
1783The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion is founded by Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, as part of the Evangelical Revival.United Kingdom source
1784February 28 – John Wesley ordains ministers for the Methodist Church in the United States.source
178428 February – John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.United Kingdom source
1784March 22 – The Emerald Buddha is installed at the Wat Phra Kaew, on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok (or in 1785).source
178414 November – Samuel Seabury is consecrated at the house of John Skinner, coadjutor bishop of Aberdeen, as first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut (his native state), the first bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.Scotland source
1784December 25 – The Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States is officially formed at the "Christmas Conference", led by Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury.source
1784December 25 – The Methodist Episcopal Church is officially formed at the so-called "Christmas Conference" led by Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury.United States source
1784New Church of Ireland St. John's Cathedral, Cashel, completedIreland source
1784St Andrew's Church in New Town, Edinburgh, opened.Scotland source
178517 July – Fairfield Moravian Church is opened in Fairfield, Droylsden, Lancashire. With its surrounding settlement it has been founded by Benjamin La Trobe as a centre for evangelistic work for the Moravian Church in the Manchester area.United Kingdom source
1785October 18 – Benjamin Franklin takes office as the new President of the Supreme Council of Pennsylvania, at the time the equivalent of a republic as one of the 13 independent governments of the United States of America under the Articles of Confederation.source
1785December 11 – An edict is issued limiting Masonic lodges throughout the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Joseph II. With the exception of Vienna, Budapest and Prague, no Empire province may have more than one lodge.source
1785Mozart's "Haydn" String Quartets are published, as is his collaboration with Salieri and a third, unknown composer, Cornetti, Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia.source
1785Mohawk Chapel, the oldest church in Ontario, was constructed near Brantford, Ontario.Canada source
1785Finnur Jónsson, bishop of Skálholt resigned in the spring. Bishop Hannes Finnsson succeeded him.Iceland source
1785Charter to the Gentry codified rights of nobilityRussia source
1785Odigitrievsky Cathedral completedRussia source
1785Trinity Church, Pervitino foundedRussia source
1785Florence Miscellany (including poems by Hester Thrale)Wales source
1785Anna Maria Bennett - Anna: or Memoirs of a Welch HeiressWales source
1786February 2 – In a speech before The Asiatic Society in Calcutta, Sir William Jones notes the formal resemblances between Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, laying the foundation for comparative linguistics and Indo-European studies.source
1786December 4 – Mission Santa Barbara is founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén as the tenth of the Spanish missions in California.source
1786December 4 – Mission Santa Barbara is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 10th mission in the California mission chain.United States source
1786December 20 – Robert Burns's Address to a Haggis is first published, in Edinburgh.source
1786St. Catherine's Cathedral completed in KhersonRussia source
1786Benjamin Francis - Aleluia (collection of hymns)Wales source
1786William Ellis - Ychydig o Hymnau a Chaniadau Newyddion (collection of hymns)Wales source
1786The Kinmel estate is sold to the Rev Edward Hughes for £42,000.Wales source
1787January 6 – The North Carolina General Assembly authorizes nine commissioners to purchase 100 acres of land for the county seat of Chatham County. The town is named Pittsborough (later shortened to Pittsboro) for William Pitt the Younger.United States source
1787January 9 – The North Carolina General Assembly authorizes nine commissioners to purchase 100 acres of land for the seat of Chatham County. The town is named Pittsborough (later shortened to Pittsboro), for William Pitt the Younger.source
1787March 28 – In the British House of Commons, Henry Beaufoy files the first motion to repeal the Test Act 1673, which restricts the rights of non-members of the Church of England; Beaufoy's motion is rejected, and the Act is not repealed until 1829.source
1787March 30 – Biblical theology becomes a separate discipline from biblical studies, as Johann Philipp Gabler delivers his speech "On the proper distinction between biblical and dogmatic theology and the specific objectives of each" upon his inauguration as the professor of theology at the University of Altdorf in Germany. Craig Bartholomew, Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Zondervan, 2011) p2source
178723 April – Henri Van der Noot presents his "Mémoire sur les droits du peuple brabançon" to the States of Brabant.Belgium source
1787May 7 – The New Church (Swedenborgian) is founded in England.source
178719 July – Ludovico di Belgiojoso recalled as minister plenipotentiary; replaced as acting minister by Sir Joseph MurrayBelgium source
178719 August – John Butler, 12th Baron Dunboyne, having resigned as Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork and married a cousin, Maria, contrary to his vow of celibacy, swears oaths of allegiance, abjuration and Supremacy of the monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England in Clonmel, the only authenticated apostate in the Catholic hierarchy in Ireland.Ireland source
17877 November - Louis XVI signs the Edict of Versailles, giving religious freedom to non-Catholics in France.France source
1787December 8 – La Purisima Mission is founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén as the eleventh of the Spanish missions in California.source
1787December 8 – Mission La Purisima Concepcion is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 11th mission in the California mission chain.United States source
1787Autumn: A ship arrived from Copenhagen with materials for the cathedral in Reykjavík and six craftsmen to work on the construction.Iceland source
1787Thomas Charles opens his first Sunday school, at Hengoed.Wales source
17881 January – first edition of The Times published under this title (previously The Daily Universal Register).United Kingdom source
1788January 31 – Henry Benedict Stuart becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain, as King Henry IX and the figurehead of Jacobitism.source
178831 January – Henry Benedict Stuart becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Henry IX and the figurehead of Jacobitism.Scotland source
178831 January – Henry Benedict Stuart, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati, becomes the new titular Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Henry IX and the figurehead of Jacobitism.United Kingdom source
178818 March – Great Sessions at Wrexham hear a graveyard dispute between the "Old" and "New" chapels at Llanuwchllyn.Wales source
1788March 21 – Great New Orleans Fire (1788) kills 25% of the population and destroys 856 buildings, including St. Louis Cathedral and the Cabildo, leaving most of the town in ruins. At the time New Orleans was a Spanish colony that would be secretly given to France in 1800. Not until 1803 would New Orleans as part of the Louisiana Purchase become part of the United States.United States source
1788Attorney-General Monk and Solicitor-General Williams are of opinion that, as the Jesuits have no civil existence as a Canadian corporation, their estates accrue to the Crown.Canada source
1788Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly establishedRussia source
1788Hester Lynch Piozzi – Letters to and from the late Samuel JohnsonWales source
1789April 7 – Selim III (1789–1807) succeeds Abdul Hamid I (1773–1789) as Ottoman Sultan.source
178918 June – In a government coup, Ferdinand von Trauttmansdorff, Joseph II's minister in Brussels, decrees the abolition of the Council of Brabant, the States of Brabant, and the Joyous Entry.Belgium source
1789July 23: Upon the death of his father, Finnur Jónsson, Hannes Finnsson becomes bishop of Skálholt.Iceland source
1789August 14 – Christian VII issues a decree that Icelandic bishops should be consecrated in Iceland in order to save money.Iceland source
178926 August – César-Constantin-François de Hoensbroeck, prince-bishop of Liège, flees to Trier; Republic of Liège proclaimed.Belgium source
1789November 2 – Decree on the goods of the clergy placed at the disposal of the Nation passed by the National Constituent Assembly.source
1789November 6 – Pope Pius VI creates the first diocese in the United States at Baltimore, and appoints John Carroll the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.source
1789November 6 – Pope Pius VI appoints John Carroll the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.United States source
1789Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, decrees that all peasant labor obligations be converted into cash payments.source
1789Thomas Campbell's Strictures on the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Ireland, From the Most Ancient Times Till the Introduction of the Roman Ritual, and the Establishment of Papal Supremacy, by Henry II, King of England. Also, An Historical Sketch of the Constitution and Government of Ireland, from the Most Early Authenticated Period Down to the Year 1783 is published in Dublin.Ireland source
1789In August 1789, the Prince-Bishopric of Liège also experienced a bloodless coup, the "Happy Revolution," where the local populace overthrew the Prince-Bishop in demands for democratic reforms.Netherlands source
1789St. Vladimir's Cathedral (St. Petersburg)Russia source
1790Lower Canada is divided into three districts, instead of two.Canada source
1790Armagh Observatory, founded by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh, begins to function.Ireland source
1790Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra completedRussia source
1790Church of the Ascension (Chaltyr) foundedRussia source
1790Fredmans epistlar by Carl Michael BellmanSweden source
1790Peter Williams - Tafol i Bwyso SosiniaethWales source
1791January 12 – Holy Roman troops reenter Liège, heralding the end of the Liège Revolution, and the restoration of its Prince-Bishops.source
179110 June – Roman Catholic Relief Act, relieving Catholics of certain political, educational and economic disabilities.United Kingdom source
1791July 11 – The ashes of Voltaire are transferred to the Panthéon in Paris.source
179111 July – The ashes of Voltaire are transferred to the Panthéon. An estimated million people attend the procession.France source
1791September 5 – Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen is written by activist Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.source
1791September 14 – French Revolution: The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.source
1791September 25 – Mission Santa Cruz is founded by Basque Franciscan Father Fermín Lasuén, becoming the 12th mission in the California mission chain.source
1791October 9 – Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad is founded by Father Fermín Lasuén, becoming the 13th mission in the California mission chain.source
1791October 9 – Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad is founded by Father Fermin Lasuen, becoming the 13th mission in the California mission chain.United States source
179114 October – the Northern Whig Club, a group of nine Belfast Presbyterians, meets with Wolfe Tone and Thomas Russell and forms the Society of United Irishmen to press for liberal non-denominational parliamentary reform.Ireland source
1791Lord Grenville, denying that Canadian attachment to French jurisprudence is due to prejudice, says it is founded "on the noblest sentiments of the human breast."Canada source
1791In response to Loyalist demands, the Constitutional Act 1791 divides Quebec into Lower Canada (mostly French) and Upper Canada (mostly English who recently migrated from America). In so doing, the Crown hopes to create a stable society that is distinctly non-American. Although French-Canadians retain the privileges granted by the Quebec Act, the Anglican church receives preferred status, including the clergy reserves.Canada source
1791Fredmans sånger by Carl Michael Bellman.Sweden source
1791Peter Williams is excommunicated by the Methodists for publishing Sabellian heresy.Wales source
1792March 1 – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, the last emperor, takes office.source
179229 September – first St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, London (Roman Catholic) consecrated as a chapel.United Kingdom source
1792October 2 – The Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering, England.source
17922 October – Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering.United Kingdom source
179214 December – the Society of United Irishmen circulates a pamphlet Address to the Volunteers, written by physician and poet William Drennan, which the authorities consider to be seditious.Ireland source
1792Shiloh Meeting House, predecessor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, is founded.source
17923–8 December – Catholic convention in Dublin, during which, at the motion of Christopher Dillon Bellew, it is resolved that the petition in favour of emancipation should be presented directly to the King.Ireland source
1792Publication of The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid.Scotland source
1793January – delegates of the Catholic Convention, including Wolfe Tone and Christopher Dillon Bellew, present a petition in favour of Catholic emancipation to King George III and the Home Secretary, Henry Dundas, in person and are favourably received.Ireland source
1793April 25 – The pioneer parishes of New Orleans and Louisiana are erected, as well as incorporated into the Roman Catholic Diocese of Louisiana and the Two Floridas.source
179325 September – Sydney's first church opens.Australia source
1793November 10 – The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution reaches a climax with the celebration of the Goddess of Reason in the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris.source
179310 November – The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution reaches a climax with the celebration of the Goddess of Reason in the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris.France source
1793Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (Roderic O'Flaherty)'s semi-mythical history of Ireland, Ogygia: seu Rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia & etc. (1685), is for the first time translated into English (by Rev. James Hely) and published as Ogygia, or a Chronological account of Irish Events, collected from Very Ancient Documents faithfully compared with each other & supported by the Genealogical & Chronological Aid of the Sacred and Profane Writings of the Globe.Ireland source
1793Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford, the oldest Catholic cathedral in Ireland, is built.Ireland source
1793Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793 relieves Catholics of certain political, educational and economic disabilities: they may now vote, enter the legal professions and hold certain public offices. They are also, under the Militia Act (Ireland) 1793 (33 Geo. 3. c. 22 (I)), permitted to bear arms; and both Roman Catholics and Protestant Dissenters are permitted to enter Trinity College Dublin (but the Catholic Church generally dissuades the former from doing so). Any man renting or owning land worth at least forty shillings (the equivalent of two Pounds Sterling), is granted the franchise, creating a class of Forty Shilling Freeholders.Ireland source
1793Orthodox Eparchy of Minsk and SlutskRussia source
179423 April – Francis II acclaimed Duke of Brabant and Limburg in Brussels.Belgium source
1794May 7 – Maximilien Robespierre establishes the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.source
17947 May – French Revolution: Robespierre establishes the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.France source
1794French troops set fire to Aulne Abbey and Lobbes Abbey.Belgium source
179420 July – François Antoine Marie Constantin de Méan et de Beaurieux, prince-bishop of Liège, flees to Germany.Belgium source
1794December 23 – St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans is dedicated.source
1794Lords lieutenant appointed permanently across Scotland by royal warrant.Scotland source
1794Uvedale Price's Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared With The Sublime and The Beautiful published.United Kingdom source
1794St Mary's College is established at Old Oscott, near Birmingham, the first Roman Catholic seminary in England since the Reformation.United Kingdom source
1794Iolo Morganwg - Poems Lyric and PastoralWales source
1795March – English Benedictine monks expelled from Douai are permitted to proceed to England.source
179522 September – London Missionary Society inaugurated.United Kingdom source
1795English Benedictine monks expelled from the Priory of St. Gregory's at Douai, France are permitted to proceed to England where they settle as guests of Sir Edward Smythe at Acton Burnell, Shropshire; later they will establish Downside Abbey in Somerset. This year also English Benedictine nuns expelled from the Priory of Our Lady of Good Hope in Paris settle initially in Dorset; later they will form Saint Mary's Abbey, Colwich.United Kingdom source
1795John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Seren Tan GwmmwlWales source
1795Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa GymysgedigWales source
179614 April - Hans Nielsen Hauge received his "spiritual baptism" in a field near his farm at Rolvsøy.Norway source
1796June - At the British general election, Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, backed by Bishop John Warren, challenges sitting MP Sir Robert Williams, the sitting member for Caernarvonshire; Sir Robert is easily re-elected.Wales source
1796November 6 – Reykjavík Cathedral is consecrated.Iceland source
1796November 12 – Groton, New Hampshire is incorporated as a town.source
1796Thomas Pennant - Whiteford and HolywellWales source
1796Anna Seward - Llangollen Vale and Other PoemsWales source
17971 March – Kreditkassen for Husejere i Kjøbenhavn is founded by royal resolution.Denmark source
179728 April – auction of Dominican convent and church in Antwerp begins; buildings bought by Prior Cornelius Peltiers.Belgium source
1797Mission San José (California), the fourteenth historic Spanish mission located in the present-day city of Fremont, California by the Franciscan order on June 11, 1797.Spain source
179730 July: Geir Vídalín is consecrated bishop of Skálholt at Hólar by Bishop Sigurður Stefánsson.Iceland source
1797September 4 – The Coup of 18 Fructidor is carried out in France as three of the five members of The Directory, France's executive council, arrested royalist members of the Council of Five Hundred, the national legislature, and discard the results of the spring elections.source
179725 November – Law of 5 Frimaire confiscates property of all religious colleges, seminaries and confraternities (implementation started 31 December).Belgium source
1797Lord Castlereagh is appointed Keeper of the King's Signet for Ireland, a Commissioner of the Treasury for Ireland and a Member of the Privy Council of Ireland.Ireland source
1797Saint Petersburg Theological Academy foundedRussia source
1797Edward Charles - Epistolau Cymraeg at y CymryWales source
1798February 10 – The Pope is taken captive, and the Papacy is removed from power, by French General Louis-Alexandre Berthier.source
179810 February - The Papacy is removed from power by the French General Louis Alexandre Berthier.France source
1798June 13 – Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded in California.source
179814 June – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.Ireland source
179813 July - William Wordsworth, visiting Wales, writes "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour".Wales source
179818 September – Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is first published anonymously in Bristol, marking the beginning of English literary Romanticism. Most of the poems are by Wordsworth, including Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, 13 July 1798, but also including the first publication of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere. First London publication is on 4 October.United Kingdom source
17987 October – St Phillip's Church founded in Sydney, completed in 1809.Australia source
1798Caroline von Wolzogen (anonymously) – Agnes von Lilien (first complete book publication, in 2 vols)Germany source
1798Building of the first major example of Egyptian Revival architecture, Karlsruhe Synagogue in Baden, designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner.Germany source
1799September 29 – The Second Roman Republic, a puppet state formed by the French Army after they dissolve the Papal States and the occupation of Rome, is dissolved 19 months after its creation on February 15, 1798.source
1799November 10 (19 Brumaire) – A remnant of the Council of Ancients in France abolishes the Constitution of the Year III, and ordains the French Consulate with Napoleon as First Consul, with the Constitution of the Year VIII.source
1799November 30 – 1799–1800 Papal conclave opens in Venice at San Giorgio Monastery.source
179914 December – The office of Lord High Chancellor of Sweden is abolished for the final time.Sweden source
1799Handsome Lake, a Seneca chief, founds the Longhouse religionCanada source
1799King Christian VII appointed a committee to make recommendations for improvements in the affairs of Hólar School.Iceland source
1799George Buchanan's De Jure Regni apud Scotos (1579) is translated by Robert Macfarlan as A Dialogue Concerning The Rights of the Crown in Scotland.Scotland source
1799The Roman Catholic seminary for the Vicariate Apostolic of the Lowland District is transferred from Scalan to Aquhorthies College by George Hay, the Vicar Apostolic.Scotland source
1799The Religious Tract Society is established as an evangelical publisher in Paternoster Row, London; as The Lutterworth Press the imprint continues into the 21st century.United Kingdom source