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THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY
| A.D. | |
|---|---|
| 1649. | Execution of Charles I of England. |
| 1658. | Aurungzeb Great Mogul. Cromwell died. |
| 1660. | Charles II of England. |
| 1674. | Nieuw Amsterdam finally became British by treaty and was renamed New York. |
| 1683. | The last Turkish attack on Vienna defeated by John III of Poland. |
| 1688. | The British Revolution. Flight of James II. William and Mary began to reign. |
| 1689. | Peter the Great of Russia (to 1725). |
| 1690. | Battle of the Boyne in Ireland. |
| 1694. | Voltaire born. |
| 1701. | Frederick I first King of Prussia. |
| 1704. | John Locke, the father of modern democratic theory, died. |
| 1707. | Death of Aurungzeb. The empire of the Great Mogul disintegrated. |
| 1713. | Frederick the Great of Prussia born. |
| 1714. | George I of Britain. |
| 1715. | Louis XV of France. |
| 1727. | Newton died. George II of Britain. |
| 1732. | Oglethorpe founded Georgia. |
| 1736. | Nadir Shah raided India. (The beginning of twenty years of raiding and disorder in India.) |
| 1740. | Maria-Theresa began to reign. (Being a woman, she could not be empress. Her husband, Francis I, was emperor until his death in 1765, when her son, Joseph II, succeeded him.) |
| 1740. | Accession of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. |
| 1741. | The Empress Elizabeth of Russia began to reign. |
| 1755-63. | Britain and France struggled for America and India. France in alliance with Austria and Russia against Prussia and Britain (1756-63); the Seven Years' War. |
| 1757. | Battle of Plassey. |
| 1759. | The British general Wolfe took Quebec. |
| 1760. | George III of Britain. |
| 1762. | The Empress Elizabeth of Russia died. Murder of the Tsar Paul, and accession of Catherine the Great of Russia (to 1796). |
