1700
- 1702 - Sidney Godolphin becomes Lord Treasurer until 1710
- 1707- Scilly naval disaster of 1707; Action of 2 May 1707
- 1715 Jacobite uprising in Cornwall
- 1715 - Lizard lighthouse built.
- 1743 - John Wesley visits Cornwall for first time. Methodism will become dominant during the next hundred years.
- 1747 - Admiral Boscawen wins fame at Cape Finisterre by singly engaging the French fleet until the English fleet arrive
- 1755 A tsunami caused by the Lisbon earthquake strikes the Cornish coast
- 1756-1763 Seven Years' War
- 1771 Birth of Richard Trevithick
- 1777 - Death of Dolly Pentreath
- 1778 Humphry Davy born in Penzance
- 1779 William Murdoch the Scottish inventor moves to Cornwall. Whilst in Cornwall he carried out important work on steam engines and gas-lights.
- 1788 - James Ruse, a Cornishman from Launceston, arrives in New South Wales aboard the transport Scarborough, part of the First Fleet of Australian convict ships.
- 1792 - Cornwall County Library (public) founded in Truro.
- 1792-1802 - French Revolutionary Wars
- 1796 - Earthquake in St Hilary.
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