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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)
EMBRACING THE PERIOD COVERED IN THIS VOLUME
A.D. 1716-1775
JOHN RUDD, LL.D.
Events treated at length are here indicated in large type; the numerals following give volume and page.
Separate chronologies of the various nations, and of the careers of famous persons, will be found in the Index Volume, with volume and page references showing where the several events are fully treated.
A.D.
1716. Establishment of Law's bank in Paris in connection with the Mississippi Scheme. See "John Law Promotes the Mississippi Scheme," xiii, 1.
Parliament passes the Septennial Act limiting the duration of a parliament to seven years.
Unsuccessful invasion of Norway by Charles XII.
War on Turkey by Austria; Battle of Peterwardein; victory of Prince Eugene.
1717. Occupation of Sardinia by Philip V of Spain.
Walpole resigns the English ministry.
A triple alliance formed between Britain, Holland, and France.
Battle of Belgrad; defeat of the Turks by Prince Eugene. See "Prince Eugene Vanquishes the Turks," xiii, 16.
1718. Foundation of New Orleans, Louisiana, by the French.
Invasion of Sicily by the Spaniards; Austria joins the Triple Alliance; the Spanish fleet defeated off Cape Passaro.
Another attempt on Norway by Charles XII; he is killed while besieging Frederikshald.
St. Petersburg becomes the capital of Russia.
1719. Philip V submits to the alliance; the Spaniards evacuate Sicily and Sardinia.
Ravaging of the coast of Sweden by the Russian fleet.
Great speculative craze in England.
1720. "Bursting of the South Sea Bubble." See xiii, 22.
Disastrous end of Law's financial schemes in France.
Sweden and Prussia arrange the Treaty of Stockholm; Prussia acquires a large portion of Hither Pomerania.
Sardinia becomes a kingdom, raised out of the Savoy dominions.
1721. Walpole again First Lord of the Treasury (prime minister) of England.
France becomes financially bankrupt.
1722. A patent granted Wood for the coinage of copper coin for Ireland; this led Swift to write of the "wooden halfpence."
Persia conquered by the Afghans.
A Jacobite plot against George I of England discovered.
Founding of a Moravian brotherhood at Herrnhut, Saxony.
War on Persia by Peter the Great.
1723. Majority of Louis XV of France.
Large territories secured from Persia by Peter the Great.
"Bach Lays the Foundation of Modern Music." See xiii, 31.
1724. A professorship of modern history founded by George I at Oxford and at Cambridge university.
Resignation of the Spanish crown by Philip V in favor of his son, Louis; the latter dies after a short reign, and his father reassumes the government.
1725. Treaty of Vienna between Austria and Spain, assenting to the Pragmatic Sanction of Charles VI.
Treaty of Hanover between Great Britain, France, and Prussia.
Death of Peter the Great; his widow, Catharine I, succeeds to the throne of Russia.
1726. Russia joins in the Treaty of Vienna.
1727. Spain makes an unsuccessful attempt to blockade and fails in her siege of Gibraltar.
Death of George I; George II succeeds to the throne of England.
Persia freed from the Afghans by Nadir Kuli, Shah of Persia.
For having published the proceedings in the British House of Commons Edward Cane is taken into custody by the sergeant-at-arms.
1728. Assembling at Soissons of a congress of the great powers.
Discovery of the strait bearing his name by Bering.
1729. Great Britain, France, and Spain arrange the Treaty of Seville.
Purchase of Carolina by the crown; two royal provinces instituted, North and South Carolina; plot of the negroes in the latter to murder their masters.
Revolt of Corsica against the Genoese.
1730. Introduction by Réaumur of his thermometer.
Baltimore, Maryland, founded.
Opening of the first railway, between Manchester and Liverpool, England.
1731. An earthquake convulses Chile for twenty-seven days; Santiago nearly engulfed.
Origin of Methodism by the preaching of Wesley and Whitefield.
1732. Oglethorpe founds a settlement in Georgia. See "Settlement of Georgia," xiii, 44.
Franklin establishes the first subscription library in the United Colonies.
Expulsion of the Protestants from Salzburg.
1733. Death of Augustus II of Poland; War of the Polish Succession between Austria and France.
Invention in England of the fly-shuttle for weaving, by John Kay, aided by Arkwright.
1734. Austrian campaign against France and Sardinia in Northern Italy; Philip V enters Naples and proclaims himself king. Battle of Bitonto; defeat of the Austrians, May 25; Capua falls in November.
Siege of Philippsburg by the French under Berwick; the fortress taken, Berwick slain.
Trial of Zenger in New York, establishing the principle of freedom of the English colonial press.
1735. First settlement of the Moravians in America, made at Georgia.
Don Carlos conquers Sicily; is crowned king as Charles III.
1736. Issue of a papal bull against freemasonry.
Glass lamps used in the streets of London.
War of Russia against Turkey; capture of Azov by the former.
Nadir Shah (Kuli Khan) succeeds to the Persian throne.
1737. War on Turkey by Charles VI.
End of the Medici line in Tuscany; Francis Stephen becomes grand duke.
English theatres are placed under control of the lord chamberlain.
Birth of Edward Gibbon, historian.
1738. Conquest of Afghanistan by Nadir (Kuli) Shah.
At Vienna is signed the definitive treaty between Charles VI of Germany and Louis XV of France.
Forming of the first Methodist Society in England, by John Wesley. See "Rise of Methodism," xiii, 57.
1739. War of Jenkins's Ear between England and Spain; in 1731 an English merchant-vessel was boarded by a Spanish guardship, and the captain, Robert Jenkins, cruelly used, an ear being torn off.
Nadir Shah captures Delhi; he sacks the city and massacres the people. See "Conquests of Nadir Shah," xiii, 72.
Recovery of Belgrad and Servian territory by the Turks, arranged by treaty between Austria and Turkey.
1740. Death of Frederick William I; accession of Frederick the Great to the Prussian throne. Treachery of the powers which had guaranteed the succession of the Austrian throne to Maria Theresa. See "Frederick the Great Seizes Silesia," xiii, 108.
A Moravian settlement formed at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
"First Modern Novel." See xiii, 100.
1741. A revolution places Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, on the throne of Russia; Ivan, an infant, and his parents are imprisoned.
Alliance between England and Austria.
War between Sweden and Russia.
Unsuccessful attack of Admiral Vernon on Cartagena, New Granada.
Final separation of New Hampshire from Massachusetts.
Pretended negro plot in New York.
1742. Election and coronation of the Elector of Bavaria as Emperor Charles VII of Germany.
Silesia and Glatz ceded to Frederick the Great.
The French are expelled Bohemia.
1743. Second Bourbon Family Compact between the kings of France and Spain.
Great Britain supports the cause of Maria Theresa. Battle of Dettingen; victory of the English and Hanoverian army.
1744. War renewed with Austria by Frederick the Great; he invades Bohemia, captures Prague, but is forced to retreat.
Beginning of King George's War in America.
1745. Last Jacobite rebellion in Britain; Scotland rises for the Young Pretender, Charles Edward; Battle of Prestonpans; he is victorious and advances into England, but is compelled to retreat.
Capture of Louisburg by British-American colonists.
Death of Emperor Charles VII; Maximilian Joseph, his successor in Bavaria, makes peace with Maria Theresa. Battle of Fontenoy; victory of the French, under Marshal Saxe, over the allies under the Duke of Cumberland. Victories of the Prussians at Hohenfriedberg, Sohr, Hennersdorf, and Kesseldorf. Francis I, husband of Maria Theresa, elected to the imperial throne. Peace between Austria and Prussia.