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| 1743 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin drafts in Philadelphia the founding document for the American Philosophical Society | |
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| 1768 |
| | | A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica | |
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| 1785 |
| | | James Hutton describes to the Royal Society of Edinburgh his studies of local rocks , launching the era of scientific geology | |
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| 1787 |
| | | The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade is founded in London, with a strong Quaker influence | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Wolfe Tone is one of the founders in Belfast of the Society of United Irishmen | |
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| 1795 |
| | | A secret Protestant group, the Orange Society, is formed in Co. Armagh to resist Irish nationalism | |
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| c. 1804 |
| | | It is estimated that in approximately 1804 the population of the world reached one billion | |
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| 1816 |
| | | Robert Finley, a US anti-slavery campaigner, founds the American Colonization Society to settle freed slaves in Africa | |
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| c. 1821 |
| | | The Shaker settlements, now widespread in the US, form The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The American Colonization Society buys the area later known as Liberia to settle freed slaves | |
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