Timeline of science fiction
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One Thousand and One Nights has several proto-science fiction stories.[1] One example is "The Adventures of Bulukiya", where the protagonist Bulukiya travels across the cosmos to different worlds much larger than his own world.[2] In "Abu al-Husn and His Slave-Girl Tawaddud", the heroine Tawaddud tells of the mansions of the Moon, and the benevolent and sinister aspects of the planets.[3]

962: Otto the Great crowned the Holy Roman Emperor; he was the first to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.

987: Succession of Hugh Capet to the French Throne and the beginning of Capetian dynasty.

989: Peace and Truce of God formed, the first movement of the Catholic Church using spiritual means to limit private war, and the first movement in medieval Europe to control society through non-violent means.

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is considered proto-science fiction.[1] In the story, an old man finds a beautiful baby girl. When she grew to be a young woman, she told her adoptive parents she was not of this world and must return to her people on the Moon.

907: Tang dynasty ends with Emperor Ai deposed and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in China commences.

936: Wang Geon unified Later Three Kingdoms of Korea.

938: Ngô Quyền won the battle of Bach Dang against Chinese Southern Han army; this event marked the independence of Vietnam after 1000 years under Chinese rule.

Year Event Historical events 1726

Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships

1733

Samuel Madden publishes Memoirs of the Twentieth Century

1735–1739: Russo-Turkish War.

1738: Pope Clement XII issues In eminenti apostolatus, prohibiting Catholics from becoming Freemasons.

1739: Nader Shah defeats the Mughals at the Battle of Karnal and sacks Delhi.

1741

Ludvig Holberg publishes Niels Klim's Underground Travels.[6]

1740: Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia.

1740–1741: Famine in Ireland kills ten percent of the population.

1744: The French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails.

1748: The Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession and First Carnatic War.

1752

Voltaire publishes Micromégas.[6]

1750: Peak of the Little Ice Age.

1754–1763: The French and Indian War, the North American chapter of the Seven Years' War, is fought in colonial North America, mostly by the French and their allies against the English and their allies.

1756–1763: The Seven Years' War is fought among European powers in various theaters around the world.

1759: French and Indian War: French commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and British commander James Wolfe die during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

1765

Marie-Anne de Roumier-Robert publishes Voyage de Milord Céton dans les Sept Planètes (Journeys of Lord Seton in Seven Planets).[9]

1760: George III becomes King of Britain.

1761: Marine chronometer invented.

1762–1796: Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.

1763: The Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War and Third Carnatic War.

1765: The Stamp Act is introduced into the American colonies by the British Parliament.

1769–1770: James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia.

1769–1773: The Bengal famine of 1770 kills one-third of the Bengal population.

1771

Louis-Sébastien Mercier publishes The Year 2440.[6]

1771: Richard Arkwright and his partners build the world's first water-powered mill at Cromford.

1775–1783: American Revolutionary War.

1776: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

1778: James Cook becomes the first European to land on the Hawaiian Islands.

1780

The Passage from the North to the South Pole is published anonymously in France.[9]

1783: Montgolfier brothers invent hot air balloon.

1785–1795: The Northwest Indian War is fought between the United States and Native Americans.

1787: The United States Constitution is written in Philadelphia and submitted to the states for ratification.

1789: George Washington is elected the first President of the United States; he serves until 1797.

1789: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

1789–1799: French Revolution.