List of World Map Changes - 18th Century

18th Century

1798

• January 4 — France annexes Mulhouse

1796

• Tennessee becomes the 16th state of the United States of America

1793

• June 25 — Avignon is transferred from the Papal States to France
• March 2 — France annexes the Principality of Salm-Salm

1792

• June 1 — Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the United States of America

1791

• March 4 — Vermont becomes the 14th state of the United States of America

1788

• January 26 — British colony of New South Wales is established

1783

• September 3 — The independence of the United States of America is recognized by Britain in the Treaty of Paris

1776

• July 4 — The United States of America declares its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain

1768

• May 15 — Genoa sells to France its rights to Corsica

1763

• February 10 — The Treaty of Paris creates a number of territory transfers between Great Britain, France, and Spain. New France (Canada) now belongs to the British.
• The capital of Brazil is moved from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro

1762

• The Louisiana Territory is transferred from France to Spain in the Treaty of Fontainebleau

1752

• Georgia becomes a colony of British North America

1747

• Safavid Empire collapses
• October — The Durrani Empire is founded near Kandahar on a Loya jirga, when Ahmad Shah Abdali is chosen as the king of the newly independent empire. He is later regarded as the founder of modern Afghanistan.

1740

• Prussia annexes Silesia from Austria

1739

• January 1 — Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier discoveres Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean

1728

• On Greenland (then part of Denmark-Norway), Hans Egede founds the colony of Godthåb

1715

• November 28 — Kingdom of Castile integrates the Kingdom of Majorca last part of the Crown of Aragon (Nowadays Països Catalans) through invasion

1714

• September 11 — Fall of the Crown of Aragon (Nowadays Països Catalans) invaded by Kingdom of Castile marked by the invasion of the City of Barcelona (Siege of Barcelona). Creation of a unified Kingdom of Spain through the Nueva Planta decrees.

1713

• Gibraltar passes from Spain to Great Britain

1707

• April 25 — Kingdom of Castile integrates the Kingdom of Valencia part of the Crown of Aragon (Nowadays Països Catalans) through invasion (Battle of Almansa)
• May 1 — The creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain through the Acts of Union