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The Great Events by Famous Historians [Volumes 1-14]
- Автор: Gutenberg
- Год: 1905
- Язык: английский
- Жанр: История
Электронная книга - «The Great Events by Famous Historians [Volumes 1-14]». Краткое содержание книги:
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 / (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 / (From Barbarossa to Dante)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 / The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Days (1910-1914)
Passage of the Act of Settlement in England; the Hanoverian succession founded.
Beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Charles XII defeats the Poles and Saxons.
1702. Death of William III; Queen Anne succeeds to the throne of England.
Command of the army of the States-General given to Marlborough, the English general.
Battle of Vigo; naval victory of the English and Dutch over the Spaniards and French.
Beginning of Queen Anne's War in America.
Foundation of a French settlement on the Mobile River, Alabama.
Charles XII occupies Warsaw; he defeats Augustus II at Klissow; Cracow entered by him.
1703. Methuen Treaty between England and Portugal, for facilitating commerce between those countries.
Peter the Great lays the foundation of St. Petersburg. See "FOUNDING OF ST.
PETERSBURG," xii, 319.
Defeat of Augustus II by Charles XII at Pultusk.
1704. English conquest of Gibraltar from Spain. "BATTLE OF BLENHEIM." See xii, 327.
At Boston is published the first newspaper in the American colonies of
England. See "ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING," viii, i.
Sack, burning, and massacre of the inhabitants of Deerfield, Massachusetts, by French and Indians.
Charles XII completes the subjugation of Poland.
1705. Failure of the French and Spaniards in an attempt to recapture Gibraltar.
Invasion of Spain by the English under the Earl of Peterborough; capture of
Barcelona.
1706. Battle of Ramillies; Marlborough defeats the French under Villeroi.
Unsuccessful attempt of the French and Spaniards on Barcelona. Birth of
Benjamin Franklin.
1707. Sanction of the Union of England and Scotland by the Scotch Parliament. See "UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND," xii, 341.
Charles XII subjugates Saxony; he dictates the Peace of Altranstaedt.
1708. Russia invaded by Charles XII.
Battle of Oudenarde; victory of Marlborough and Prince Eugene over the
Dukes of Burgundy and Venddme.
1709. Annihilation of the army of Charles XII at Poltava See "DOWNFALL OF CHARLES XII," xii, 352.
Invasion of Sweden by the Danes. Recovery of Poland by Augustus II.
1710. Expulsion of the Danes from Sweden by Stenbock. Request of the Irish Parliament for union with that of Great Britain. "CAPTURE OF PORT ROYAL, CANADA." See xii, 373.
1711. After further successes in Flanders, Marlborough is removed from command; the Whig ministry falls in England.
Under Walker, the English and New England forces make an unsuccessful attempt on Canada.
Having taken up arms for Charles XII, the Turks nearly achieve the ruin of Peter the Great, whose army is hemmed in near the Pruth River; peace arranged, the Turks recovering Azov and other towns.
%1712%. Peace conference at Utrecht.
Newspapers come under the operation of the Stamp Act, in England; so many discontinue publication that it is called the "Fall of the Leaf."
Second Toggenburg War between the Reformed and Catholic cantons of
Switzerland.
%1713%. Peace of Utrecht ending the War of the Spanish Succession. Great Britain acquires Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Gibraltar, Minorca, Hudson Bay, and the Isle of St. Kitts; with the title of king the Duke of Savoy is ceded Sicily by Spain, and by France, Savoy and Nice with certain fortified places; the King of Prussia exchanges the principality of Orange and Châlons for Spanish Gelderland, Neuchâtel, and Valengin; Spain cedes to Austria, Naples, Milan, Spanish Tuscany, and sovereignty over the Spanish Netherlands; the harbor and fortifications of Dunkirk to be destroyed.
Charles I issues the Pragmatic Sanction securing succession to the female line in default of male issue.
%1714%. Establishment of the Clarendon Press at Oxford, from the profits of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.
Death of Anne and accession in England of George (I), Elector of Hanover.
Capture of Barcelona by the French and Spanish forces; the citizens deprived of their liberties.
Fahrenheit invents his thermometer.
%1715%. Jacobite rebellion in Britain in behalf of the Pretender.
Death of Louis XIV; he is succeeded by his great-grandson, Louis XV; the
Duke of Orléans regent.
A Barrier Treaty made between Austria, England, and Holland; it gave the
Dutch a right to garrison certain places in the Austrian Netherlands.
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