time+line+1750-1820

1752- Ben Franklin invents lightning conductor 1776- america declares independence 1768- Captain James Cook sails to the pacific 1771- Captain James Cook returns 1789- French revolution begins 1799- preserved mammoth discovered in Siberia 1804- Lewis and Clark expedition begins 1811- Jane Austin writes sense and sensibility 1812-the war of 1812 1816-Laennec develops the stethoscope 1818-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley writes Frankenstein