WHAT HAPPENED IN 18. CENTURY
Find out what all happened in the 18. century

In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey. (6. January 1781)

The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens. (7. January 1782)

Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon. (7. January 1785)

The modern Italian flag is first used. (7. January 1797)

Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. (8. January 1734)

Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling. (8. January 1746)

George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York. (8. January 1790)

Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat. (9. January 1760)

Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States. (9. January 1788)

Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. (9. January 1793)

British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars. (9. January 1799)

Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense. (10. January 1776)

The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War. (10. January 1791)

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated. (11. January 1759)

Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur. (11. January 1779)

American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts. (11. January 1782)

William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus. (11. January 1787)

The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina. (12. January 1773)

Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California. (12. January 1777)

Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome (13. January 1793)