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This sub-article explores what happened across 1700 AD and nearly the entire 18th century AD in The Fork in Time.
1700s[]
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How Russlander troops looked during World War I; credit goes to everyone.
- January 1: The Year 1.7K bug briefly occurred, but was fixed shortly after.
- c. late January: Internet streaming began to emerge.
- February 22, 1700 - November 11, 1721: World War I/The Great Northern War occurred and concluded.
- February 22, 1700: The Siege of Tönning occurred.
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- November 11, 1721: The then-recent Treaty of Versailles was signed.
- May 6: Italy/Italland hosted the 1700 Summer Olympics.
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- July 1: New Humanity declared full independence as a sovereign state, but maintained its traditionally often-supportive relations with Italland from this day on.
- Unknown date: Early copies of the OmniTape 2.0 began to emerge.
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- July 1: Canada/Kanata/Onakwah hosted the 1704 Summer Olympics, which marked the first time the Olympics were ever held outside Europe.
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1705[]

An early Blu-Ray disc; credit goes to everyone for this image.
- Unknown date: Early Blu-Rays began to emerge, using much earlier laser technologies for high-definition storage.
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1707[]
September 1: Another Jacobite rising fought to restore the Stuart dynasty via the Jacobite rising of 1707, and manage to turn the British Dominion of Zululand into their own diarchy, officially known as the Diarchy of Zululand, which still exists today.- More coming soon!
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- May 1: The Kingdom of Great Britain hosted the 1708 Summer Olympics.
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1709[]
- Aotearoa (English/OTL: New Zealand) declared independence from Spain, although the two still maintain often-supportive relations.
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October 5: Another Osmanite rising began in Turkey, nearly disrupting the famed Great Peace of 1600.- More coming soon!
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- May 28: [TBD country] hosted the 1712 Summer Olympics.
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What James Puckle looked like.
- November 2: An early machine gun, namely the Puckle gun or defence gun, was invented in the Kingdom of Great Britain by James Puckle.[1]
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- January 8: The traditional Zululander funerary song "Will Ye No Come Back Again?", then known as "Will-Ye-No-Come-Back-Again?", was written in response to the death of coruler Phunga kaGumede, who was succeeded by Mageba kaGumede. The latter will live until c. 1760.
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- October 5: Yet another Osmanite rising begins in Turkey, this time mainly in its last remaining province in Africa post-Great Deliberation, namely Kenya Province. Against all odds, the rising manages to succeed, resulting in said province to declare independence and become a diarchy which still exists today.
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1737[]
- January 9: [TBD inventors] demonstrated the first modern parachute in [TBD city], [TBD country].
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1745[]
- August 19: [TBD socialists] wrote the Communist Manifesto which marked the birth of modern socialism, although the term was first used by [TBD person] in 1729.
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- Unknown date: The world population passed 1 billion.
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- January 12: The mostly unsuccessful Revolutions of 1748 began, which will later be known as the most widespread revolutionary wave in Eurasia and South America to date.
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- October 4: The Revolutions of 1748 came to a close.
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- February 21: [TBD inventor] installed the first working steam locomotive at [TBD location].
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- May 10: [TBD person] accidentally discovered [TBD early version of song], the earliest surviving version of [TBD traditional song] from c. 1501, whilst attending the marriage of [TBD then-recently married couple] in [TBD location].
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- January 7: [TBD Aztec/Coatlaca/Anahuacan company], which will later become a well-known competitor in the film industry starting from the mid-19th century, is founded as a [TBD profession] company.
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- ↑ Inspired by this Reddit post!