Editing 1780s

{{Short description|Decade}}
<imagemap>File:1780s montage.jpg|thumb|335x335px|From top left, clockwise: The [[Storming of the Bastille|fall of the Bastille]] propelled the start of the [[French Revolutionary War]], a war that will eventually influence global politics by the birth of [[democracy]] in governments, and conceive the idea of [[republicanism]] worldwide; The first [[Gas balloons|hydrogen balloons]] flew successfully this decade by Jacques Charles and [[Nicolas-Louis Robert]]; [[George Washington]] becomes [[president of the United States of America]]. His ascension into office marked him as [[United States of America|America's]] first president; The [[United States Constitution]] is signed in [[Philadelphia]] by delegates of the [[Constitutional Convention (United States)|Constitutional Convention]], beginning the document's ratification process; [[Uranus]] is discovered in 1781 by [[William Herschel]], further expanding the global scientific consensuses and understanding on the [[Solar System]], recognizing it as the seventh planet from the Sun; [[The Iron Bridge]] opens, making it the world's very first [[bridge]] made out of [[cast iron]], ushering in the preliminary wave of the [[Industrial Revolution]]; The [[Montgolfier brothers]] manned the world's first hot-air balloon, which stayed afloat 2 kilometres above ground in its 1783 voyage; [[Iceland|Icelandic]] volcano [[Laki]] erupted in 1783, unleashing an 8-month-long environmental destruction and widespread famine across Europe. Up to 33% of Iceland's population and tens of thousands more in [[Mainland Europe]] succumbed to the chain of disasters, leading the eruption to be dubbed as "one of the worst" in contemporary history.
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rect 2189 40 3223 1074 [[George Washington]]
rect 40 1115 1658 2148 [[Laki|1783 Laki Eruption]]
rect 1699 1115 3223 2148 [[Constitution of the United States|U.S. Constitution]]
rect 40 2189 1105 3223 [[Montgolfier brothers]]
rect 1146 2189 2180 3223 [[The Iron Bridge]]
rect 2189 2189 3223 3223 [[Uranus]]
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The '''1780s''' (pronounced "seventeen-eighties") was a [[decade]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]] that began on January 1, 1780, and ended on December 31, 1789. A period widely considered as transitional between the [[Age of Enlightenment]] and the [[Industrial Revolution]], the 1780s saw the inception of [[modern philosophy]]. With the rise of astronomical, technological, and political discoveries and innovations such as [[Uranus]], [[cast iron]] on structures, [[republicanism]] and [[hot air balloon|hot-air balloons]], the 1780s kick-started a rapid global [[industrialization]] movement, leaving behind the world's predominantly agrarian customs in the past.

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