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1735
| 1735 • The Qianlong Emperor succeeds Yongzheng and begins a 60-year-long reign of the Qing Dynasty. |
1760
Age: 25y
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birth of childHenry Frakes Jr. Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
1764
Age: 29y
marriageEleanor Watkins 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1764 • English scholar Edward Gibbon conceives the idea of writing The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire "as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol". |
after
Sep 19
Age: 63y
1798
Sep 19
Age: 63y
| 1798 • Helvetic Republic, a French client republic, proclaimed following collapse of the Old Swiss Confederacy on French invasion. |