18th century

Centuries:	18th century 19th century
Decades:	1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s
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The eighteenth century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1701 and ended on December 31, 1800, according to the Gregorian calendar. During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russia and China.

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