Chronology Events from 1700 till 1799

1700 From 1700 to 1830, the East India Company would gain control of India and wrestle control of the opium monopoly.

 

1700 British Isles importing 20 million pounds of sugar per year.

 

1700 Deaths from tuberculosis increase dramatically in England and other sugar consuming countries as the body environment changes to accommodate it.

 

1700 Refined sugar is the most important export of France.

 

1702 First appearance of yellow fever in the United States. It would appear 35 times between 1702 and 1800 and would appear almost every year between 1800 and 1879.

 

1709 Plague in Turkey, Russia, Scandinavia and Germany through 1710.

 

1712 First record of vaccinations for smallpox in France.

 

1715 British East India Company opens its first trading office in Canton; China begins trading in opium.

 

1717 Inoculation against smallpox instituted in England by Lady Mary Montague after she returns from Turkey, where it was in a popular experimental stage at the time 1718 First bank notes in England.

 

1719 Outbreak of the plague in Marseilles, France through 1720.

 

1720 British government issues instruction that American colony governors consent to no Act emitting Bills of Credit.

 

1721 In the United States, a clergyman named Cotton Mather attempts to introduce a crude form of smallpox vaccination by smearing smallpox pus into scratches in healthy people. Over 220 people are treated during the first six months of experimentation. Only six had no apparent reaction. Mather was bitterly attacked for recommending this practice in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

1722 In Wales, a Dr. Wright refers to inoculation against smallpox in the British Isles as “an ancient practice.” A citizen of Wales, 99 years old, states that inoculation had been known and used during his entire lifetime, and that his mother stated it was common during her life, and that she got smallpox through her “inoculation.”

1723 Johann Peter Rockefeller arrives in the U.S. colonies from Germany.

 

1723 First record of smallpox immunization in Ireland, when a doctor in Dublin inoculates 25 people. Three died, and the custom was briefly abandoned.

1724 First record of vaccination for smallpox in Germany. It soon fell into disfavor due to the number of deaths. Years later, doctors were able to reintroduce it.

 

1727 Coffee planted in Brazil.

 

1728 Madrid Lodge of Freemasons founded.

 

1729 Emperor Yung Cheng prohibits opium smoking in China.

1730 Zinc smelting begins in England.

 

1733 Molasses Act of 1733 passed by Britain, putting a heavy tax on sugar and molasses coming from anywhere except the British sugar islands in the Caribbean. Sugar was also essential for production of rum (alcohol), to which a significant percentage of humans were already addicted. Tobacco, (nicotine) begins to gain more significance in world use.

1734 Masonry introduced to the Netherlands.

 

1735 Masonry introduced to Portugal, Italy and Russia.

 

1737 Masonry introduced to Germany.

 

1737 Hume's Treatise on Human Nature is published.

 

1740 Smallpox epidemic in Berlin. University of Pennsylvania founded.

 

1741 Philadelphia epidemic of yellow fever.

 

1747 Philadelphia epidemic of yellow fever.

 

1750 Dutch shipping more than 100 tons of opium per year to Indonesia.

 

1750 Scandinavia experiences a 15 year epidemic of Pertussis (whooping cough) which takes 45,000 lives.

 

1753 Vienna Stock Exchange founded.

 

1754 Inoculation for smallpox introduced in Rome. The practice was soon stopped because of the number of deaths it caused. Later, the medical profession would successfully reintroduce it.

 

1757 Bengal made a British Crown Colony, and Britain expands its trafficking in Opium.

 

1762 Philadelphia epidemic of yellow fever.

 

1763 Epidemic of smallpox in France wipes out a large part of the population. It was immediately attributed to inoculation, and the practice was prohibited by the French government for five years.

 

1763 The first recorded episode of biological warfare in the United States occurs when white colonial settlers give smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans who sought friendly relations. Also a significant case of genocide.

 

1764 Britain prohibits American colonies from issuing their own currency.

 

1768 The medical profession in France is successful in re-instituting vaccination for smallpox.

 

1770 Emile is written by Rousseau. The work parallel the work of Locke in 1690, but Rousseau’s work won the attentions of the Prussian Empire (Germans), essentially a synthetic state founded on a religious principle, due to the fact that Prussians were the subject of a religious war and Crusade by the Pope.

1770 George Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel born in Germany.

 

1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica first assembled in London.

 

1774 First Continental Congress convened, September 5, 1774.

1774 Scheele discovers Chlorine gas. 1775 King George issues his Proclamation of Rebellion.

 

1775 Continental Congress authorizes respective states to issue paper currency in defiance of Britain. The British respond by printing counterfeit money and flooding the U.S. with it.

 

1776 Adam Weishaupt infiltrates the Bavarian Masonic Lodges. The doctrine of the Illuminati encompasses: abolition of ordered government, private property, inheritance, nationalism, family, religion, marriage, morality, and communal education of children.

 

1776 Roughly 85% of citizens in the United States have independent livelihoods.

 

1776 American colonies of Britain declare their independence from Britain.

 

1776 Adam Smith writes The Wealth of Nations, setting forth British policy to maintain the American colonies as backward raw material producers and the mandate to expand the opium trade.

1777 Nathan Rothschild born. Weishaupt joins the Munich Masonic Lodge, and within two years would be in control of the lodge of Theodore of Good Counsel.

 

1778 Danish physicians move to open two major vaccination houses in Denmark by order of the King.

 

1778 In Italy, infants were inoculated by Neapolitan nurses without the knowledge of parents.

 

1778 An Act of Congress prohibits importation of slaves into U.S.

 

1779 America recalls its currency to counteract the effect of undermining by Britain.

 

1780 United States has two interest-bearing banks.

 

1780 Eclectic Alliance used until 1784 to covert Masonic lodges to Illuminism.

 

1780 Adam Weishaupt’s Order of the Illuminati at the University of Ingolstadt has 60 members in five German cities by 1780, but the impact of his ideas extends much farther in society. Weishaupt and others desired to attach themselves to Masonic lodges in Europe and America. In 1780, Weishaupt recruits Adolf Francis (Baron Knigge), which allowed the hierarchical structure of the Order to expand to completion. Weishaupt sought absolute obedience to him and other influential members of the order, and worked for the overthrow of church and state authorities who were seen as blocks to Illuminati progress. Knigge completes the system of initiation, and membership swells to 300. Competition arises between Weishaupt and Knigge.

1781 American Congress meets for the first time. The Bank of North America founded, modeled after the Bank of England. Never recognized by the majority of states. Bank of North America folded in 1790.

1781 Massachusetts Medical Society incorporated.

1782 Masonic Congress at Wilhelmsbad. Knigge enrolls virtually all of the members attending over to Weishaupt's Order, which depleted potential members for the rival Order of Strict Observance.

 

1782 Original Great Seal of the United States adopted.

 

1783 Baring Brothers become the premier merchant of the opium trade. 1783 Because of Weishaupt’s power and arrogance, complaints begin to surface that the Order was subversive of political and religious authority, the schools and the press. In October of 1783, a disgruntled member of the order, Joseph Utzschneider, denounces Wesihaupt to the duchess Maria Anna of Bavaria, who in turn speaks to Carl Theodore, the Bavarian king.

1783 U.S. President (of the Order) John Hanson dies.

1784 Bavarian Illuminati (Wesihaupt) membership is 3000, which effectively knocks out competition from the Strict Observance and Rosicrucian orders. Knigge withdraws from Wesihaupt’s Order of the Illuminati.

1784 U.S. President (Order) Lee in office.

1784 In Bavaria, King Carl Theodore outlaws secret societies (June 1784).

1785 Carl Theodore issues another edict specifically outlawing Wesihaupt's Order of Illuminati, as well as providing rewards for information on them. Weishaupt flees to a neighboring province, as does Count Massenhausen.

1785 Columbus Lodge of Order of Illuminati established in New York City. Press gives criticism to U.S. President John Hanson.

 

1785 Watt introduces steam engine in England.

 

1786 In Bavaria, the home of Xavier Zwack, one of Weishaupt’s members of the Order, is raided by the government. Many books and papers of the Illuminati are found. The home of Zwack’s friend, Baron Bassus, is also raided and other papers are seized.

 

1787 British Secretary of State Dundas proposes that Britain storm China and create more of an opium market to suppress the Chinese people.

1787 The Duke of Bavaria issues a final edict against the Order of the Illuminati.

 

1787 Dollar currency first introduced in the United States.

 

1788 Constitutional amendment ratified that limited the power of the government and ensured money was backed by precious metal.

 

1789 French Revolution begins. It would last until 1799.

 

1789 Knights of Malta defeated by Napoleon.

 

1789 Epidemic of influenza in New England through 1790.

 

1789 Constitution of the United States ratified. George Washington maintains a vast plantation growing marijuana (hemp).

1789 George Washington, a Mason, becomes President of the United States, following the terms of Presidents Hanson, Boudinot, Mifflin, Lee, Gorham, Griffin and St. Clair.

 

1790 Baverian police harass Illuminati members.

 

1790 Washington D.C. founded. First patent law in U.S. established.

 

1790 Edward Jenner buys a medical degree from St.Andrews University for £15.

 

1791 Edward Jenner vaccinates his 18 month old son with swine-pox. In 1798, he vaccinates his son with cow-pox. His son will die of TB at the age of 21.

 

1791 First Bank of the United States chartered. Creation of Hamilton and chartered for 20 years. 1792 Anti-Saccharite Society forms in Europe to protest effect of sugar on people. It induces a British sugar boycott through Europe. The British East India companies, already involved with opium drug trafficking, uses the slavery issue for an advertising campaign, “East India sugar not made by slaves,” for its sugar trafficking.

1793 Epidemic of influenza in New England.

 

1793 Major epidemic of yellow fever in the United States in Philadelphia, the social, political and financial center of the country. It would soon spread to other states through 1796.

1796 Edward Jenner in Gloucestershire, England, credited with concept of vaccination. Jenner vaccinates an 8 year old boy with smallpox pus. Jenner would vaccinate the boy 20 times. The boy would die from TB at the age of 20.

1796 Edict of Peking forbids import of opium into China. 1798 General vaccine programs against cowpox instituted in the U.S.

 

1798 John Robison publishes Proofs of a Conspiracy in which he describes 84 German Masonic lodges and says that the Illuminati still work covertly behind the scenes. Copy is received by George Washington.

 

1798 Publication of Augustin Barruel’s “Memoirs of Jacobianism.” Barruel comes to similar conclusions as Robison, that when the Illuminati was outlawed it went underground and resurfaced as an organization called the German Union, which played a role in creating the French Revolution in 1789. This thesis is later discussed in 1918 with Stauffer's New England and the Bavarian Illuminati. Knigge was allegedly involved with both the German Union and the Eclectic Alliance, which was used as a cover for converting Masonic lodges to Illuminism between 1780 and 1784.

1798 Emigration to Canada begins.

1799 George Washington dies. With his death Masons were again trusted and the controversy about the Illuminati faded.

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