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| c. 1720 |
| | | The postchaise, introduced in France, provides the first chance of reasonably comfortable travel by land | |
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| 1746 |
| | | An earthquake destroys much of Lima, and an ensuing tidal wave engulfs its port at Callao | |
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| 1752 |
| | | Britain is one of the last nations to adjust to the more accurate Gregorian calendar, causing a suspicious public to fear they have been robbed of eleven days | |
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| 1761 |
| | | George Washington, the future president, inherits Mount Vernon from his half-brother Lawrence | |
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| 1784 |
| | | The first mail coach leaves Bristol for London, introducing a new era of faster transport | |
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| 1790 |
| | | The USA becomes the first nation to establish a regular census as a systematic check on the size of the population | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Horatio Nelson, with his ship docked in Naples, meets Lady Hamilton, wife of the British envoy | |
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| 1793 |
| | | The French Convention adopts imaginative names for the months in their new republican calendar | |
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| c. 1795 |
| | | Dutch Boers begin calling themselves Afrikaners, to emphasize that Africa is their native land | |
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| 1799 |
| | | In a famous moment of calculated courage Napoleon visits and touches the sick in a plague hospital in Jaffa | |
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