History Through the Decades

Wikipedia has a cool feature where they summarize various decades in pictures. These are really fun to see, to get a sense of history - especially a sense of what events were happening at the same time.

2020s (so far)

2010s

2000s

1990s

1980s

1970s

1960s

1950s

1940s

1930s

1920s

1910s

1900s

1890s

1880s

1870s

1860s

1850s

1840s

1830s

1820s

1810s

1800s

1790s

1780s

1770s

1760s

1750s

1740s

1730s and earlier

It's a bummer that Wikipedia's summaries end here. I'd love for Wikipedians to create more. It seems like the main events of the 1730s were:

• The First Great Awakening takes place in Great Britain and North America.
• Crimean Tatar raids into Russia
• War of the Polish Succession
• Austro-Russo-Turkish War
• Qianlong Emperor of China starts to oversee a huge expansion in territory
• Octant navigational tool was developed by John Hadley in England, and Thomas Godfrey in America
• Flying shuttle invented by John Kay
• Europeans encountered rubber