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The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain and Prussia .
The Seven Years' War, 1754–1763, spanned four continents, affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, and India and the Philippines, in Asia.. The conflict split Europe into two coalitions: Kingdom of Great Britain, Prussia, Portugal, Hanover, and other small German states on one side versus the Kingdom of France, Austria-led Holy Roman Empire, Russia, Spain, several small German states ...
1563–1570 Northern Seven Years' War; 1565 Great Siege of Malta; 1566 Siege of Szigetvár; 1568–1570 Morisco Revolt; 1568–1648 Eighty Years' War; 1569–1580 Spanish-Ottoman War – 48,000 killed in action [1] 1569–1570 Rising of the North; 1569–1573 First Desmond Rebellion; 1573 Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt; 1578 Georgian-Ottoman War
Seven Years' War (1756–63), among European powers and their colonies, encompassing the French and Indian War. Great Britain in the Seven Years' War; France in the Seven Years' War; Northern Seven Years' War (1563–70), also known as the Nordic Seven Years' War, Sweden against Denmark-Norway and allies; Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98 ...
The Battle of Hochkirch took place on 14 October 1758, during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years' War).After several weeks of maneuvering for position, an Austrian army of 80,000 commanded by Lieutenant Field Marshal Leopold Josef Graf Daun surprised the Prussian army of 30,000–36,000 commanded by Frederick the Great.
The European balance of power is a tenet in international relations that no single power should be allowed to achieve hegemony over a substantial part of Europe. During much of the Modern Age, the balance was achieved by having a small number of ever-changing alliances contending for power, [1] which culminated in the World Wars of the early 20th century.
The scope of this article begins in 1815, after a round of negotiations about European borders and spheres of influence were agreed upon at the Congress of Vienna. [3] The Congress of Vienna was a nine-month, pan-European meeting of statesmen who met to settle the many issues arising from the destabilising impact of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the ...
Europe in the years after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. Austria is in yellow, and Prussia, with the Province of Silesia, is in purple. Although the Seven Years' War was a global conflict, it acquired a specific intensity in the European theater as a result of the competition between Frederick II of Prussia, known as Frederick the Great, and Maria Theresa of Austria.