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1760 Russian troops occupy Berlin ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The ferocity and frightening doggedness of the Russian troops during the Seven Years War, and their temporary occupation of Berlin in 1760, quite changed Frederick the Great’s view of his neighbor. Fo ●●

1760 Frederick the Great wins the Battle of Liegnitz ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On 22 July during the Silesian campaign of 1761, Frederick the Great stole a march on Laudon and moved to Nossen near Neisse. The battle of Liegnitz in 1760 resulted from Frederick's night move to a better position, catching Laudon by complete surprise and resulting in Austrian losses of 70 cannon and 10,000 men. ●●

1760 Macpherson forges an ancient Highland literature and history ai_extracted 1 cit. James Macpherson and the Rev. John Macpherson manufactured a fake indigenous literature and past for Celtic Scotland in the 1760s. Macpherson's "Ossian" transferred Irish ballads to Scotland and dismissed the genuine Irish originals, creating what was later called a chain of error in Scottish history. ●●

1761 Maratha defeat at the Battle of Panipat ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Marathas suffered a catastrophic defeat at Panipat. The talented generation of leaders who rose after that battle had, by 1800, all died, leaving the Confederacy without capable direction. ●●

1762 Rousseau's Emile and permissive education, 1762 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley traces the doctrine that a child's maturation should be left free to unfold, the basis of permissive education, back to Rousseau's Emile of 1762, which idealized the state of nature. ●●

1762 Rousseau publishes Emile, 1762 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto identifies Rousseau's 1762 book Emile as a blueprint for the psychological molding of children, a rival to Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management. ●●

1762 Spain enters the war and loses its colonies ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When Spain foolishly entered the war in 1762, the same fate befell its colonies in the Caribbean and Philippines. Meanwhile, the House of Brandenburg had already seen its share of “miracles,” and in t ●●

1763 Britain wins New France in the Seven Years War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story British victory in Seven Years War delivers New France (Canada) to British control in 1763. ●●

1764 The Club, an elite dining society, founded in 1764 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley describes two dining clubs that symbolized the early Cecil Bloc. The Club was founded in 1764 and counted famous figures such as Johnson and Burke among past members. ●●

1767 Catherine convenes the Legislative Commission ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1767, she called a "Legislative Commission" of delegates from various ranks nobles, townspeople, peasants, Cossacks, representatives from Ukrainian... ●●

1770 Prussian civil service reform introduces exams ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The groundwork for a modern state had already begun in the years before the Battle of Jena, with the 1770 civil service reform that introduced examinations as the basis for promotion. ●●

1772 Shah Alam's departure from Allahabad recalled ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Wellesley opened secret negotiations to bring the Mughal emperor back under Company protection, the first such move since Shah Alam left Allahabad thirty years earlier. He offered the emperor asylum. ●●

1772 Lavoisier deposits sealed note on combustion ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Lavoisier deposits a sealed note with the Secretary of the French Academy stating his conviction that something is wrong with phlogiston theory and that burning bodies absorb part of the atmosphere. ●●

1773 Catherine issues a decree of religious toleration ai_extracted 1 cit. no story She closed Orthodox missionary efforts in the Volga area, encouraged the con struction of mosques, and in 1773 issued a decree declaring "toleration o... ●●

1773 Pope suppresses the Society of Jesus ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After individual suppressions in various empires, they finally bullied the Pope into complete suppression in 1773 ●●

1774 Priestley isolates gas from red oxide of mercury ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Joseph Priestley collects gas released by heated red oxide of mercury in the course of pneumatic chemistry research. He initially identifies it as nitrous oxide, later as common air with less phlogiston. ●●

1774 British Parliament passes the Quebec Act ai_extracted 1 cit. no story British Parliament passes Quebec Act providing pragmatic alliance with French elite and Catholic Church. ●●

1774 Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Continental Congress summoned to Philadelphia in 1774 to address grievances against British rule. ●●

1775 Captain John Parker at Lexington ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto closes with the words of Captain John Parker, who at first light on April 19, 1775, commanded the American militia against the British at Lexington. Gatto adapts the line to call for taking schools back. ●●

1776 Watt's steam engine and the Industrial Revolution, 1776 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley marks the Industrial Revolution as well established in Britain by 1776, the year Watt patented his steam engine. ●●

1776 Industrial Revolution begins in England ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley dates the start of the Industrial Revolution to England about 1776, from which it spread eastward and southward across Europe, reaching France after 1830, Germany after 1850, and Italy and Russia after 1890. ●●

1776 James Watt's steam engine appears in 1776 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that James Watt's steam engine arrived in 1776, as the Continental Congress met. He says it was efficient and could deliver power anywhere, freeing industry from coal fields. ●●

1776 Adam Smith founds economics with The Wealth of Nations legendary ai_extracted 2 cit. no story In 1776 Adam Smith, professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow, published The Wealth of Nations. Graeber credits it with bringing the discipline of economics into being through the myth of barter. ●●

1776 American patriots declare independence from Britain ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1776, when a gathering of American patriots declared their indepen dence from Great Britain, their grievances concerned oppressive taxation, restri... ●●

1776 American colonies declare independence ai_extracted 1 cit. no story American colonies declare independence from British rule in 1776, establishing new nation. ●●

1777 Lavoisier identifies oxygen as a distinct gas ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After further experiments beginning in 1774, Lavoisier concludes by 1777 that the gas obtained from heating red oxide of mercury is a distinct species, one of the two main constituents of the atmosphere. He develops the oxygen theory of combustion. ●●

1778 Joseph Dulles flees Ireland for South Carolina ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Joseph Dulles fled Ireland to escape anti-Protestant repression and settled in South Carolina as a prosperous planter, establishing the American branch of the Dulles family. ●●

1778 War of the Bavarian Succession ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The brief and ultracautious campaigning in the War of Bavarian Succession (1778–1779), when Prussia opposed Austria’s attempt at expansion, merely confirmed this widespread wish to avoid the costs of ●●

1780 Birth of Carl von Clausewitz ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Carl von Clausewitz was born. He later joined the Prussian army at age twelve and participated in the Rhine campaign. ●●

1781 Congress ratifies the Great Seal of the United States ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A committee including Benjamin Franklin designed and introduced the Great Seal of the United States, which Congress ratified in 1781. The reverse side featured the mysterious eye-and-pyramid with the Latin motto 'Annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum' (God smiles on our new order of the ages). ●●

1781 Bank of North America chartered in Philadelphia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The first was the Bank of North America in Philadelphia chartered in 1781 ●●

1784 Boston merchants move to abolish town meetings ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that as early as 1784 the Boston business community, led by merchant Joseph Barrell, tried to replace town meetings with a professionally managed corporation. ●●

1784 Alexander Hamilton founds the Bank of New York ai_extracted 1 cit. no story If Main Street hoped that Black Monday would throw a cautionary fear into Wall Street, it was dead wrong. It only prodded the Street into more assertive, reckless behavior. Securities firms had already lost many safe, reliable businesses. ●●

1786 Sir William Jones links Sanskrit and English, 1786 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto describes Sir William Jones's 1786 speech to the Bengal-Oriental Society proposing a common source for Sanskrit, Latin, Greek, and English. ●●

1787 John Jay writes to Jefferson on American enterprise ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto quotes a 1787 letter from John Jay to Jefferson describing the enterprise of the young country as inconceivable to Europeans accustomed to controlling common people. ●●

1787 Church of England men at the 1787 Constitutional Convention ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto cites Russell Kirk's estimate that 29 of the 55 delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention were still communicants of the Church of England. ●●

1787 Oliver Evans builds automated flour mill on Brandywine ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Flour mills had used continuous-process machinery since Oliver Evans built his mill on Brandywine Creek near Wilmington, Delaware, in 1787 ●●

1788 Founding of the Societe des Amis des Noirs ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1788, leading Enlightenment figures founded the Societe des Amis des N oirs to plead the cause of slaves in the French empire. ●●

c. 1789 to c. 1799 Freemasons in the French Revolution 2 cit. A number of revolutionary figures were Freemasons, and lodges such as the Nine Sisters gathered Enlightenment thinkers. Historians reject the later conspiracy claim that Freemasonry planned or caused the Revolution. politics / religion / society ●●●

1789 Russia sets up an official Islamic institution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The govern- Empires across C ontinents 279 ment responded by printing and distributing the Quran to Muslims and setting up in 1789 an institution to... ●●

1789 Wilberforce denounces the slave trade in Parliament ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When William Wilberforce denounced the slave trade before Parliament in 1789, not long after the American revolution and the scandal over the British... ●●

1789 Sultan Selim III launches military reforms ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Sultan Selim III (ruled 1789-1 8 07) opened military schools and began French-inspired reforms of weaponry and tactics . ●●

1790 Naturalization Act limits citizenship to free whites ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Naturalization Act of 1790 opened the possibility of becoming a citizen to any "free white person" who had resided in the country for two years, d... ●●

1791 Whiskey Rebellion leaders meet in Monongahela ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto states that in 1791 leaders of the Whiskey Rebellion met in Monongahela, where Scots-Irish farmers spoke of forming a Trans-Allegheny nation of free men. ●●

1791 Gedike publishes the first look-say primer ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto states that in 1791 the Prussian schoolman Friedrich Gedike published the world's first look-say primer, A Children's Reader Without the ABC's and Spelling, to eliminate drill. ●●

1791 Hamilton founds the First Bank of the United States ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1791 Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton created the country's first central bank, the First Bank of the United States. Its charter was allowed to expire in 1811, beginning America's long ambivalence toward central banking. ●●

1791 Polish nobles adopt a written constitution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1791, Pol ish nobles provided a convenient provocation to greedy outsiders when, inspired by news from France, they gave themselves a written const... ●●

1792 French Assembly declares war on Austria ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The French legislative assembly declared war on Austria in 1792, opening twenty-three years of conflict between revolutionary and imperial France and the rest of Europe. ●●

1792 First American marine insurance company incorporated ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The first American company to insure ships and their cargoes was incorporated in 1792 ●●

1792 Iolo Morganwg invents the Gorsedd of Welsh Bards ai_extracted 1 cit. Edward Williams, known as Iolo Morganwg, invented the Gorsedd of Bards, claiming Welsh bards were heirs of the ancient Druids. He staged his first bardic-druidic ceremony on Primrose Hill in London in 1792. The Gorsedd was later folded into the eisteddfod from 1819 and became a lasting part of Welsh cultural life. ●●

18 September 1793 Washington lays the US Capitol cornerstone in a Masonic ceremony 2 cit. Wearing a Masonic apron and using a silver trowel and gavel, Washington laid the Capitol cornerstone in a full Masonic rite assisted by the Grand Master of Maryland. The ceremony used the traditional offerings of corn, wine, and oil. politics / religion ●●●

c. 1793 Masonic cornerstone ceremonies in American public architecture 3 cit. Laying cornerstones with Masonic rites was a common 18th and 19th century public custom for capitols, courthouses, and monuments, not a secret act. The ceremonies were widely reported in newspapers and treated as civic events. culture / society ●

1793 Vendee uprising against the revolutionary government ai_extracted 1 cit. no story One of the earliest counterrevolutionary movements was the peasant uprising of the Vendée in 1793 that opposed the revolutionary government in Paris. ●●

1793 Execution of King Louis XVI ai_extracted 1 cit. no story King Louis XVI is executed during the French Revolution, which Pike claims was orchestrated by successors of the Templars to avenge Jacques de Molai ●●

1794 Washington marches an army against the Whiskey rebels ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that as president Washington assembled 13,000 troops in 1794 to march into western Pennsylvania and put down the Whiskey Rebellion. ●●

1794 Death of Mahadji Scindia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Mahadji Scindia died and was succeeded by the fifteen-year-old Daulat Rao. The boy inherited a strong European-trained army but showed little skill in using it. ●●

1794 Belley takes a Saint-Domingue seat in the Assembly ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1794, one of their number,Jean-Baptiste Beiley, took a seat in the French National Con stituent Assembly as a delegate from Saint Domingue. ●●

1795 Blumenbach's racial classification names five "races" 1 cit. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach divided humanity into five races and coined the term "Caucasian" for Europeans, whom he placed at the center. Though he argued for a shared human origin, his skull-based categories were later used to justify racial hierarchy. science / society ●●

1795 Timothy Dwight leads Yale ai_extracted 1 cit. Gatto describes Timothy Dwight, president of Yale after 1795 and an advocate of science-centered curriculum, as a foe of advancing democracy. ●●

1795 Third and final partition of Poland ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When the third and final partition did occur, in 1795, it was all too evident that Poland had been a more effective ally to France in its death throes than as a living, functioning state. By that time ●●

1795 Prussians defeat the French, secure the Rhine ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Prussian forces defeated the French repeatedly in Alsace and the Saar, capturing thousands of prisoners. When fighting ended in 1795, they controlled the line of the Rhine. ●●

c. 1796 Phrenology claims to read character from skulls 1 cit. Franz Joseph Gall promoted phrenology, the false claim that skull shape reveals intelligence and character. It was widely used to argue that Africans and other groups were naturally inferior. science / society ●●

1796 Connecticut court introduces judicial discretion in child custody ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto points to 1796 as an early sign of the state intruding into family life. He says the Connecticut Superior Court that year introduced judicial discretion into the common law of child custody. ●●

1796 Revolutionary wars breach the Frankfurt ghetto walls ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The revolutionary wars demolished the walls of the Frankfurt ghetto, enabling the Rothschild family to escape centuries of discriminatory restrictions and begin their unprecedented rise to international financial prominence. ●●

1796 Napoleon crushes Sardinia-Piedmont, Peace of Campo Formio ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This left only Sardinia-Piedmont, which in early 1796 was crushed by Napoleon; the luckless Habsburg Empire, which was driven out of much of Italy and forced into the Peace of Campo Formio (October 17 ●●

1796 Archduke Charles fights Moreau at Neresheim ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On 11 August 1796, Archduke Charles fought Moreau in the Rauhe Alp (Neresheim). The Archduke fought primarily to facilitate his own retreat, demonstrating the complexities of tactical decision-making in strategic context. ●●

1797 Andrew Bell publishes account of Hindu monitorial schooling ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto states that in 1797 Andrew Bell published an account of the Hindu-derived monitorial method he had used in Madras, praising its drill as an impediment to real learning. ●●

1797 Run on the Bank of England forces Britain off gold ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1797, amid the Revolutionary war with France, rumors that a French army had landed in Wales provoked a run on the Bank of England. Its gold reserves shrank from £9 million to £1 million and it abandoned the gold standard. ●●

1797 Bonaparte advances on Austria from Italy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In March 1797, Bonaparte and the Army of Italy advanced from the Tagliamento to meet the Archduke Charles. His objective was to force a decision on the Austrians before reinforcements from the Rhine could arrive, ultimately leading to the peace of Campo Formio. ●●

1797 White Lotus Sect rebellion in western China ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jamieson recounts that in the second year of the Kea King (Jiaqing) emperor's reign, members of the Pai lien Chiao, or 'Sect of the White Lily,' raised what he calls a formidable revolution in China's western provinces; the rebellion was eventually quelled and membership in the society made a capital offence. ●●

1798 Alien and Sedition Acts and early nullification ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book traces state nullification back to resistance to the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 and unconstitutional searches of 1807 to 1809. It presents these as precedents for defying federal power. ●●

1798 Wellesley sails from Calcutta to Madras ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Lord Wellesley left Calcutta by ship for Madras so he could direct the coming war against Tipu Sultan from a southern base. He arrived on the last day of 1798. ●●

1798 Edward Jenner develops smallpox vaccination ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Edward Jenner developed the vaccination technique using cowpox matter to prevent smallpox, representing a major advance in inoculation with significantly lower mortality rates than earlier variolation techniques. ●●

1799 Harris ordered to invade Mysore ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Governor General ordered General Harris to move his army into Mysore and march on Tipu's capital. Wellesley instructed that there be no negotiations until the army stood before the walls of Srirangapatnam. ●●

1799 Arthur Wellesley's failed night attack at Srirangapatnam ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As the siege of Tipu's capital opened, Arthur Wellesley led a night attack on the outer defences that failed. A party of thirteen captured Company sepoys was tortured to death. ●●

1799 Death of Tipu Sultan at Srirangapatnam ai_extracted 1 cit. no story During the final assault on his island capital, Tipu Sultan fought on the ramparts and was shot at point-blank range. He died sword in hand among the dead, ending four wars against the Company. ●●

1799 Pope Pius VI dies in French captivity ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The marginalization of the pope begun by ‘Enlightened Despots’ had seemed to be complete when revolutionary French armies arrested Pius VI and watched him die in French exile in 1799 ●●

c. 1800 to c. 1831 The Carbonari 1 cit. The Carbonari were secret revolutionary societies that pushed for constitutional government and Italian unification. They organized uprisings against foreign and absolutist rule in the early nineteenth century. politics / society ●●●

1800 Founding of the Bank of France ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley traces French financial capitalism to the founding of the Bank of France in 1800, when financial power lay with about ten to fifteen private banking houses, mostly of Swiss Protestant origin. ●●

1800 Death of Nana Phadnavis ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The veteran Maratha Prime Minister Nana Phadnavis died after guiding Maratha diplomacy and administration for twenty-five years. His death removed the last figure able to hold the fractious Maratha Confederacy together. ●●

c. 1800 The riika age-set and generation-set system 1 cit. Everyone initiated in the same period formed a riika, an age-set that moved through life together and gave the society its backbone of order. Age-sets were grouped into larger generation-sets, and the ituika ceremony handed authority from a retiring generation to the next, a rotation between the Mwangi and Maina lines. This layered structure organized defense, dispute-settling, and public affairs in a society without kings or chiefs. culture / society ●●

c. 1800 Gujarati and Kutchi merchants settle along the Swahili coast 5 cit. Long before colonial rule, Indian Ocean dhows carried on a monsoon trade that tied Gujarat and Kutch to the Swahili coast. Hindu banias, Kutchi Bhatia traders, Ismaili and Bohra merchants kept resident firms in Mombasa, Lamu and above all Zanzibar. They financed and handled much of the coastal trade in cloth, ivory and grain. economy / society ●●

c. 1800 The githaka estate and the ahoi tenants 7 cit. Kikuyu land was held as githaka, an estate belonging to a mbari, the patrilineage descended from the man who first cleared it. Members farmed their own plots within the estate, and a muramati acted as trustee for the whole lineage. Outsiders known as ahoi could live and cultivate on the land by permission of the mbari, but held no ownership and could be asked to leave. economy / society ●●●

c. 1800 Rule by councils, not chiefs 5 cit. The Kikuyu had no kings or chiefs. Public matters were settled by the kiama, a council of elders that judged disputes, fixed fines, and guarded custom, while each mbari managed its own land and affairs. Authority came from age, wealth in stock, and standing among peers, not from a throne. When the British later appointed chiefs, they were creating an office that Kikuyu society had never had. politics / society ●●●

c. 1800 The Njuri Ncheke council of the Ameru 1 cit. The Ameru were governed by the Njuri Ncheke, an inner council of the most senior and respected elders. It made and enforced law, settled serious disputes, set the calendar of initiation, and guarded sacred knowledge and oaths. Its word carried across the Meru sub-groups, giving them a shared authority stronger than most of their neighbours had. politics / society ●●●

c. 1800 The mugwe, blesser of the Meru 1 cit. Among several Meru sub-groups the mugwe was a hereditary religious leader who blessed the people, warriors, and harvests and mediated with the divine. He carried no army and gave no orders, but his blessing was thought to bring fortune and his curse ruin. The role was studied in detail by the anthropologist Bernardo Bernardi in the 1950s. religion / society ●●

c. 1800 Age-sets and the making of adults 1 cit. Across the Kikuyu, Kamba, Meru, and Embu, initiation and circumcision turned children into adults and sorted them into age-sets that lasted for life. These sets fixed a person's duties at each stage, from warrior youth defending the ridges to elder sitting in council. Shared initiation gave each people a common backbone of loyalty that ran across clan lines. culture / society ●●

c. 1800 Generation-sets and age-sets among the Turkana 5 cit. Turkana men belonged to age-sets grouped under two alternating generational divisions, commonly named the Stones and the Leopards, each marked by its own colors and ornament. A son entered the division opposite his father's, so the two rotated across the generations. The system ordered seniority, ritual duty, and the sharing of authority in a society with no chiefs. culture / society ●●

c. 1800 Taita fighi charms and the ancestor skull caves 3 cit. Taita religion centred on the ancestors. When an elder died, the skull was later removed and placed with others in ngomenyi rock shelters and caves, where the living brought offerings and asked for help. Communities were also guarded by fighi, protective medicine-charms set at the boundaries of a settlement to keep out enemies and disease. These practices were recorded in detail by ethnographers. culture / religion ●

c. 1800 The Taveta hold the Chala caravan corridor 3 cit. The Taveta lived in a dense forest belt near Lake Chala on the edge of Kilimanjaro, close to what is now the Tanzania border. Their fenced forest home sat on the caravan route between the coast and the Chagga kingdoms of the mountain. As a small people in a strategic spot, they made a living as traders, guides and hosts to passing caravans. economy / society ●●

c. 1800 Aweer flee inland from coastal slave raids contested 3 cit. Aweer tradition holds that they retreated deep into the Boni forest to escape capture during the East African slave trade along the coast. The forest hinterland offered cover from raiders operating out of the Lamu and Somali coast. This flight shaped their settlement in the remote woodland where they later remained. society / war ●

c. 1800 Suba develop a lake economy and mix with neighbouring Bantu and Luo 5 cit. On the islands and shore the Suba built a life around fishing, canoe travel and trade across the lake. From the start they absorbed and were absorbed by neighbours, including earlier Bantu residents and the growing Luo population around them. This mixing was normal for the region and shaped Suba identity from the beginning. economy / society ●

c. 1800 Sabaot circumcision and elders order life on the mountain 1 cit. Like other Kalenjin the Sabaot organise men through circumcision and age-sets that carry them from youth into elderhood. Councils of elders held authority over land, grazing and disputes on the forested mountain slopes. Caves high on Mount Elgon were long used for shelter, ritual and refuge in times of raiding. culture / society ●

1801 Napoleon and Pius VII sign the Concordat ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Accordingly, in 1801, he and Pope Pius VII reached an agreement or Concordat, the model for many similar deals between the papacy and a variety of governments throughout the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ●●

1802 Barings finances the Louisiana Purchase ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Barings Brothers, the oldest merchant bank in London, helped the U.S. government finance the purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1802 from a cash-strapped Napoleon. Its authority in Europe was legendary. ●●

1802 Battle of Hadaspur ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On the feast of Diwali, Jaswant Rao Holkar's army met the combined forces of the Peshwa and Scindia near Pune. Holkar was wounded leading a cavalry charge but won a decisive victory, and Baji Rao fled. ●●

1802 Treaty of Bassein ratified ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The fugitive Peshwa Baji Rao II signed a treaty of alliance accepting the Company as Maratha overlord and a British garrison at Pune. Holkar warned it had destroyed the Maratha state. ●●

1803 Napoleon sells Louisiana to the United States, 1803 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States in 1803 because his overriding concern had to be France's position on the European continent, not overseas empire. ●●

1803 Wellesley plans to invade Hindustan and seize Delhi ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When it became clear Scindia would not accept the Treaty of Bassein, Wellesley drew up plans to invade Hindustan and take both Delhi and the Mughal emperor. This aimed to make the Company the paramount power of India. ●●

1803 Arthur Wellesley restores Baji Rao to Pune ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Arthur Wellesley marched the Peshwa Baji Rao II back to Pune and restored him to his throne under British control, without firing a shot. Holkar withdrew his army north-east across the Deccan. ●●