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1715 | Louis XIV of France dies; succeeded by his great-grandson Louis XV (age 5) |
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1718 | Quadruple Alliance signed by France, the Empire, England, and Holland |
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1719 | France declares war on Spain |
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1723 | Louis XV attains majority |
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1725 | Treaty of Vienna guarantees the Pragmatic Sanction |
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1725 | Louis XV of France marries Maria Leszczynska of Poland |
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1729 | Treaty of Seville between France, Spain, and England |
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1733 | France declares war against Emperor Charles VI |
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1736 | Theodor von Neuhof elected King of Corsica |
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1737 | Last of the Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, dies; Francis, Duke of Lorraine, husband of Maria Theresa, receives Tuscany; Stanislas of Poland acquires Lorraine |
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1738 | Treaty of Vienna Closes the War of Polish Succession between France and Austria. Lorraine guaranteed to France
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1740 | War of the Austrian Succession |
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1742 | Peace of Berlin ends First Silesian War |
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1744 | King George's War (ends 1748) American phase of the War of the Austrian Succession GO ! |
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1744 | France declares war on England and on Maria Theresa |
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1744 | Second Silesian War begins |
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1748 | 18 October - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends King George's War, restoring the status quo ante in the colonies; general recognition of Pragmatic Sanction and of Francis I as Holy Roman Emperor |
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1754 | The Seven Years (French and Indian) War unofficially begins |
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1755 | The French and Indian War officially begins in America GO ! |
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1756 | Treaty of Versailles; alliance between France and Austria |
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1756 | Britain declares war on France - Seven Year's War |
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1763 | The Seven Years war ends with the Treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg GO ! |
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1774 | Louis XVI becomes King of France |
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1774 | Louis XV, King of France, dies; succeeded by his grandson Louis XVI |
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1778 | American colonies sign treaties with France and Holland GO ! |
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1778 | February - France signs a treaty of alliance with the United States |
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1780 | Outbreak of Second Mysore War |
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1787 | Parliament of Paris demands summoning of States-General |
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1789 | The French Revolution begins |
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1790 | Festival of Champs de Mars, Paris; Louis XVI accepts the constitution |
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1790 | Third Mysore War |
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1791 | Louis XVI, trying to leave France with his family is caught at Varennes and returned to Paris |
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1791 | Massacre of the Champ de Mars, Paris |
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1791 | Fr. National Assembly dissolves |
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1792 | The Girondists form ministry in France; the royal family imprisoned |
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1792 | France declares war on Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia |
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1793 | Reign of Terror in France |
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1793 | Louis XVI executed |
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1793 | Reign of Terror begins |
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1793 | Queen Marie Antoinette executed |
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1793 | Holy Roman Empire declares war on France |
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1794 | "Feast of the Supreme Being" in Paris |
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1794 | The Commune of Paris abolished |
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1794 | Jacobin Club closed |
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1795 | Bread riots and White Terror in Paris |
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1797 | Peace of Campo Formio between France and Austria |
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1798 | French capture Rome: proclaim Roman Republic; Pope Pius VI leaves the city for Valence |
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1798 | King Ferdinand IV of Naples declares war on France and enters Rome |
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1799 | Austria declares war on France |
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1800 | Napoleon appoints committee of jurists to draw up Civil Code |
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1801 | Peace of Lunéville between Austria and France marks the actual end of the Holy Roman Empire |
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1802 | Peace of Amiens between Britain and France |
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1804 | Napoleon, proclaimed emperor by Senate and Tribunate, is crowned in the presence of Pope Pius VII in Paris |
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1804 | Code Napoléon promulgated |
