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Count Saxe takes Brussels and Antwerp.
Victory of Culloden, which puts an end to the Rebellion in Scotland, April 16.
Lords Balmerino and Kilmarnock beheaded, August 18.
Count Saxe defeats the Allies at Raucoux. October 11. Dreadful earthquake at Lima, October 17. 1747 Lord Lovat beheaded, April 9. - - -- The French defeat the allied army at Lafeldt, July 2. Bergen-op-Zoom taken by the French, September 5.
The French fleet defeated by Admiral Hawke, October 14. Kouli-Khan murdered.--Revolution in Persia.
Re-establishment of the Stadtholdership in the person of the Prince of Orange. 1.748 Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle between Great Britain, France, Spain, Austria, Sardinia and Holland, October 7. 1749 League between the Pope, Venetians, etc., against the Algerines, etc. 1750 Joseph King of Portugal. --- - Academy of Sciences founded at Stockholm.
Commercial treaty between Great Britain and Spain, October 5. 1751 Adolphus of Holstein King of Sweden. - --- Peace between Spain and Portugal.
Death of Frederick Prince of Wales.
Death of the Stadtholder. - William V. succeeds. 1752 New Style introduced in Britain, September 2 reckoned 14. 1753 The British Museum established in Montague house. 1754 Great eruption of Ætna.
Great earthquake at Constantinople and Cairo, September 2. A. D. 1754 ‡ Othman III. Emperor of the Turks. 1755 Defeat of Gen. Braddock near Fort du Quesne, July 9. Lisbon destroyed by an earthquake, November 1. 1756 War declared between Great Britain and France, May 18. Surrender of Minorca by Blakeney, June 28. -- 1757 Damiens attempts to assassinate Louis XV. - - King of Prussia defeats the Austrians at Reichenberg and Prague. Count Dauhn repulses the King of Prussia at Kolin, June 18. , June 18.
Verden and Bremen taken by the French, August.
Convention of Closterseven, September 8.
The Prussians defeat the French and Austrians at Rossbach, November 5. The King of Prussia master of Silesia, December 21. ‡ Mustapha III. Emperor of the Turks. 1758 Pope Clement XIII. - - - Senegal taken by the English, May 1.
Cape Breton taken by the English, June 17.
The English repulsed at Ticonderoga, July 8.
The British troops take Louisburg, July 27.
Count Dauhn defeats the King of Prussia at Hochkirken, October 44. The British troops take Fort du Quesne, November 25. Goree taken by Keppel, December 29. 1759 Guadaloupe surrendered to the English, May 1. -- -- - - - The French defeated by the allied army at Minden, August 1. French fleet defeated by Boscawen off Gibraltar, August 18. August 18.
Charles III. King of Spain.
The Jesuits expelled from Portugal, September 3.
General Wolfe takes Quebec, September 17.
French fleet defeated by Hawke off Belleisle, November 20. Ferdinand IV., third son of the King of Spain, becomes King of Naples. 1760 Montreal and Canada taken by the British troops, September 8. George III. King of Great Britain, October 25.
October 25.
The King of Prussia defeats the Austrians at Torgau, November 3 1761 Pondicherry taken by the English, January 15.
Family compact between France and Spain, etc. 1762 Martinico surrendered to the English, February 4. - -- Peter III. Emperor of Russia.
The Jesuits banished from France, August.
Havana taken by the English, August 12.
Peace between Great Britain and France at Fontainbleau, November 3. Catharine II. Empress of Russia. 1763 Peace between Great Britain, France and Spain, at Paris, February 10. Death of Augustus III. King of Poland.
A. D. 1764 Stanislaus II. King of Poland. -- Sujah Dowla defeated by Munro at Buxar, October 23.
Byron's discoveries in the South Seas.
The Archduke Joseph elected King of the Romans. 1765 JOSEPH II. Emperor of Germany. 1766 American Stamp Act repealed, March 18. -- --- - -- The Jesuits expelled from Bohemia and Denmark.
Christian VII. King of Denmark.
Death of Stanislaus Duke of Lorraine, ex-King of Poland. Death of the Pretender James Stuart. 1767 The Jesuits expelled from Spain, Genoa and Venice. Wallis' and Carteret's discoveries in the South Seas. 1768 Royal Academy of Arts established at London.
The Jesuits expelled from Naples, Malta and Parma.
Bougainville's discoveries in the South Seas.
Genoa cedes Corsica to France. 1769 Pope Clement XIV. [Ganganelli].
Cook's first discoveries in the South Seas.
Corsica taken by the French, June 13. 1770 Earthquake at St. Domingo. 1771 Gustavus III. King of Sweden. 1772 Revolution in Sweden, August 19. -- Poland dismembered by Russia, Prussia, and Austria. 1773 Cook's second voyage and discoveries.
The society of the Jesuits suppressed by the Pope's bull, August 25. 1774 Louis XVI. King of France. -- --- ‡ Abdhul-Achmet Emperor of the Turks.
American war commenced, November 15.