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HISTORY. 



A.D. 

 1639 



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ditary in the house of Austria. War between France 

 ami Germany (16881691). First (Jermaii periodical 

 ( rhomasiugJL English revolution. 



James 11. allocate- (William III. of Orange nnd Mary 

 proclaimed). Bill of rights. IVtcr I. etar and autocrat 

 of Russia. British funding system (national dt*l>t). 

 Continental i-cHinexions of England. Buttleofthe Boyne 

 (161)0). Hunoveriau electorate (the !)th). Massacre of 

 Glencoe (1692). 



IVare of Ryswick. Charle* XII. of Sweden. Battle of 

 Zentha (Eugene of Savoy). Last attack of the Turks 

 against the Christians of the West. Augustus 11. of 

 Poland. 



Treaty of partition of the Spanish monarchy ; the elector 

 of i .avai ia intended king of Spain. 



Death of the elector of Bavaria ; the testament of Porto, 

 oarrero gives the Spanish succession to the house of 

 Anjou. Peace at Carlovvitz; the Turks cede Transyl- 

 vania and Sclavonia to Austria, Morea to Venice. 

 Christian V. of Denmark d.; Frederic IV., king. 

 Scotch Darien expedition. 



Northern war of Poland, Russia, and Denmark, against 

 Sweden. Charles II. of Spain d. (Austrian dynasty 

 extinct on tlie throne of Spain). Philip V. of Anjou, 

 king of Spaiu (Bourbondynasty). Peace of Travendahl. 

 Battle of Narva. 



Prussia a kingdom ; Frederic I. War of the Spanish suc- 

 cession. Act of settlement Eugene goes to Italy. 

 (Battles of Chiari and Capri). 



Louis XIV. acknowledges James II. asking of England; 

 the maritime powers take part with Austria. William 

 III. of England d. ; Anne, queen. 



Peter III. of Portugal joins the alliance with Austria; 

 Charles III. of Spain and Sardinia becomes the ally of 

 Austria. Dampier's second voyage round the world 

 (1703 to 17015). The Methuen treaty. 



Battles of Schellenberg and Blenheim (Eugene and Marl- 

 borough). Charles III. goes to Spain; the English 

 take Gibraltar. Charles XII. of Sweden causes Stanis- 

 laus Leczinsky to be elected king of Poland, and drives 

 the Saxons from Poland. Locke d. 



Cohorn d Joseph I , emperor. 



Charles III. goes to Spain; Barcelona taken. The Aus- 

 trians roasters of Italy through Eugene. Victory of 

 Ramillies. Peace of Altranstadt; Augustus II. re- 

 imunces the crown of Polaud. Patkul sacrificed to the 

 king of Sweden. 



Union of England and Scotland. Parliament of Great 

 Britain. Continuation of the war in Spain (Berwick 

 victorious at Almanza). Aureng-Zebe, the greatest 

 Mongol ruler of Hindoostan, d. The Seiks and Mah- 

 rattas shake the empire of his successors. Vauban d. 



Battle of Oudenarde ; Lisle taken. Union of the English 

 East India com panics. Dampier's and Woods Rogers's 

 voyage round the world (170811). 



The emperor enters Mantua; victory of Malplaquet. 

 Eugene, Marlborough and Heinsius dictators ; France 

 exhausted. Battle of Pultawa. Preponderance of 

 Sweden in the North ends; superiority of Russia. 

 Charles XII. takes refuge among the Turks. Stereo- 

 type printing in Leyden. 



The duchess of Marlborough's gloves overthrow the 

 whigs in England. Vendome captures Madrid. 



War between Russia and Turkey; the peace of the 

 Pruth saves Peter's army. The senate supreme tri- 

 bunal in Russia. 



The German provinces of Sweden conquered. A French 

 colony in Mauritius. The crown prince of Saxony be- 

 comes Catholic. 



Peace of Utrecht (Great Britain receives Arcadia, Hud- 

 sou's Bay, and Newfoundland; Portugal, the countries 

 from Cape North to the Maranon ; Prussia, Guelder- 

 land for Orange ; Sardinia, Sicily ; and the summits of 

 the Alps become the frontiers of France ; Holland re- 

 ceives the Barriers in the Netherlands; Spain gives 

 up Gibraltar and Minorca, and accedes to the Assiento 

 treaty). Steenbock surrenders with his army. Charles 

 XII. returns from Bender to Sweden. Clement XI. 

 Constitution ; Vnigenitus (against the Jansenists). 

 French colony of cape Breton. Perpetual league of the 

 Catholic cantons with France. Frederic William I. of 

 Prussia reforms the kingdom. 



Peace of Hastadt. Austria receives Lombardy, Naples, 

 and Sardinia, and the Spanish Netherlands, with the 

 barriers. Queen Anne of England d. George I., elec- 

 tor of Hanover, ascends the British throne. Whigs 

 again in power. Fall of the princess Orsini. 



The Turks take the Morea from the Venetians. Inocu- 

 lation for the small-pox at Oxford. Battles of Sheriff- 

 inuir and Preston. Barrier treaty of the Dutch with 

 Austria. Louis XIV. d. ; his grandson Louis XV. king, 

 tinder the guardianship of Orleans. Plan of Alberoni. 

 The stadtholdership in Holland gradually declines. 

 Mercurial thermometer (Fahrenheit). 



War between Turkey and Austria. Battle of Peterwar- 

 adin. Septennial parliaments in Great Britain. Leib- 

 nitz d. 



Triple alliance between Great Britain, France, and Hol- 

 land. Sardinia given by the maritime powers to Aus- 

 tria instead of Sicily. Eugene takes Belgrade. John 

 Law and the Mississippi scheme. Scotch free-masonry, 

 piano-fortes, and potatoes in the north of Germany. 

 Peace of Passaro \\itz, by which the Turks retain the 



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Morea, but cede the Bannat, Servia, and part of Bo- 

 nia, to Austria. Alexis, heir apparent of Peter, put to 

 death. 



Charles XII. killed before Fredericshall. Ulrica Eleono- 

 ra confers the crown of Sweden on her husband Frede- 

 ric of Hesse-Cassel. 



Goertz beheaded. Alberoni exiled from Spain, and this 



oer . n, an a 



power obliged to conclude peace. 1'ruuue bankrupt; 

 Law leaves France. 



ce of Nystadt, which leaves Sweden only a part of 

 omerania and Wismar in Germany. Treaty o I Ma- 



Peac 



Po . o a- 



drid, between Spain and France and the maritime 

 powers. Peter I. emperor ; abolition of the patriar- 

 chate in Russia, and foundation of the holy synod. 

 Walpole in England. James Roggeween's voyage 

 round the world (17211723). 



Pragmatic sanction. Ostend company. Russian law of 

 succession. Mahmoud on the thn ne of Persia (the 

 Afghan dynasty). 



Louis XV. of age ; cardinal Duboi?, the Duke of Orleans, 

 and, finally, Bourbon, his ministers. Enlistments of 

 foreigners common in Europe. IVter the Great re- 

 ceives the Persian provinces Dhagestan, Shirvau, and 

 Ghilan, with the cities of Baku and Derbend. 



Philip V. of Spain resigns his crown to his son Louis, but 

 resumes it after the death of the latter. 



Peter the Great d. ; his wife, Catharine I., empress; 

 Menziknft. Marriage of Louis XV. with the daughter 

 of Stanislaus Leczinsky ; the Infanta, six years old, i 

 sent back. Division in the French church on account 

 of the bull Vnigenitus and the Jansenists. 



Cardinal de Fleury prime minister; France regains her 

 influence in Europe. 



Catharine I. d. ; Peter II. emperor of Russia. Fall of 

 



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Meuzikoff; Dolgorucki. Frontier treaty between 

 Russia and China. George II. king of Great Britain. 

 Newton d. 



Gold mines of Brazil discovered. Afghans expelled from 

 Ispahan. Moravians (Ziiizendorf ) . 



. 

 Peace of Seville. 



1 eacc <*i oevinc. 



Peter II. d. ; Anna empress. Fleury decides the contest 

 of the Jansenists and of the bull Vnigenitus; resistance 

 of the parliament. 



English colony in Honduras. Treaties of Vienna. 



Orange treaty of succession. 



War for the Polish crown. The French invade Germany 

 and Italy. Georgia settled. 



Russia and Austria give the Polish crown to Augustus 

 III. Battles of Parma and Guastalla. 



Preliminaries of Vienna (Augustus remains king of Po- 

 land. Stanislaus receives Lorraine during his life, after 

 which it reverts to France. Francis Stephen indemni- 

 fied by Tuscany. Don Carlos king of the Two Sicilies. 

 Parma and Piacenza remain Austrian). Kien-Loug 

 emperor of China. Turks beaten by the Persians. 



War of Russia and Austria against the Turks ; Munich 

 Marriage of Maria Theresa of Austria with Francis 

 Stephen of Tuscany. Kouli Khan ascends the throne 

 of the Sophis (whose race he extirpates), under the 

 name of Schah Nadir. Theodore Neuhof, king of Cor- 

 i sica. Eugene of Savoy d. 



1737 The house of Medici becomes extinct ; Tuscany comes 

 I into the possession of the duke of Lorraine. 



1738 The Russians discover Tschoukotskia. Solar microscope 



of Lieberkuhn. Vaucanson's automata. Herculaneuni 

 and Pompeii discovered. 



1739 Peace of Belgrade, by which Servia. Little Walachia, 



Orsova, and Bosnia are restored to the Turks. Nego. 

 tiations at the Pardo. War between Spaiu and Eng- 

 land. Admiral Vernon takes Porto Bello. Schah 

 Nadir conquers Hiudoostan, and carries away the trea- 

 sures of the Great Moguls. Fall of the empire of the 

 Great Moguls, and division among the governors; 

 Delhi alone remains to the descendants of Baber. 



Maria Theresa ascends the throne of the Austrian here- 

 ditary states, according to the pragmatic sanction, 

 after the death of Charles VI. Frederic the Great (of 

 Prussia) invades Silesia. Anne of Russia d. ; Ivan IV. 

 emperor ; Biron rules. 



France declares for the elector of Bavaria, who claims 

 the Austrian states. The maritime powers and Sar- 

 dinia for Austria. Ivan IV. dethroned; Elizabeth em- 

 press. Behring and Tschirikofs voyage; the Aleutian 

 islands discovered. 



Silesia and Glatz ceded to Prussia. 



Cardinal de Fleury d. Austria successful against Charles 

 of Bavaria, German emperor. Peace of Abo. 



English naval successes over the French. The former 

 rule on the Mediterranean. 



Charles VII. (of Bavaria) d., Francis Stephen, husband 

 of Maria Theresa, becomes German emperor. Second 

 Silesian war concluded by the peace of Dresden, and 

 Silesia remains in the hands of Prussia. Prince Charles 

 Edward lands in Scotland, is victorious at Prestonpans, 

 and enters England. The New Englanders take Louis- 

 burg and Cape Breton. 



Cumberland defeats the Pretender at Culloden. Great 

 earthquake in Lima. 



The prince of Orange again at the head of the govern- 

 ment, as stadtholder. The French successful in the 

 Netherlands, and unsuccessful in Italy. Schah Nadir 

 I d., and internal troubles distract the Persian empire. 

 1748 I Peace of Air -la-Chapelle ends the war of the Austrian 



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