A Sampler of Events That Made History Between 1700 AD and 1799 AD
1732 - Russia and Persia sign Treaty of Riascha 1751 - 1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" 1762 - England declares war on Spain and Naples 1788 - London's Daily Universal Registrar becomes the Times 1767 - Mozart's opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus," premieres in Salzburg 1713 - England and Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty 1739 - J B C Bouvet de Lozier discovers Bouvet Island, near Antarctica 1774 - Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog 1776 - General George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag 1708 - Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen
