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NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS Book vil, 1660 to 1789 GUIDING DATES Louis xiv. assumes control 1661 Independence of Portugal . 1665 Louis attacks Holland . 1672 William III. of Orange, Stadt- holder .... 1672 Treaty of Nimeguen . . 1678 Accession of Peter the Great 1682 Turks besiege Vienna : Sobieski .... 1683 Revocation of Edict of Nantes .... 1685 Louis attacks the Palatinate 1688 William III. of Orange, King of England . . . 1689 Battle of La Hogue . . 1692 Treaty of Rysvvick . Accession of Charles XII. (Sweden) . . . ]■ 1697 Augustus of Saxony, King of Poland Wars of Charles xn. begin . 1700 Aurangzib . . . 1658- 1707 Prussia becomes a king-"} dom . . . . j- 1701 The Grand Alliance . J War of Spanish succession begins . . . 1702 Battle of Blenheim . . 1704 England and Scotland united as Great Britain . . 1707 Pultawa : and Malplaquet . 1709 Fall of Marlborough . .1711 Treaty of Utrecht . . 1713 Hanoverian succession in Britain .... 1714 Death of Louis xiv. . .1715 Battle of Belgrade . .1717 Turkish aggression ends at Treaty of Passarowitz . 17 18 Fall of Alberoni . . .1719 Pragmatic Sanction issued . 1720 Walpole's ascendency . 1721-42 Fleury's ascendency . 1726-43 Bourbon Family Com- pact .... War of Polish Succes- sion .... War between Great Britain and Spain Frederick 11. King of Prussia . War of Austrian succes- sion begins . French and British at war in India . Francis 1. emperor End of Jacobitism Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle Seven Years' War begins Clive's conquest of BengaH Frederick 11. wins Rosbach V and Leuthen . . J 341 1733-35 739 r 1740 1744 1745 1746 1748 1756 1757