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1775 Pugachev's Rebellion Russian Empire: Cossack and peasant rebels Tatar and Bashkir nobles: 1774 1774 Lord Dunmore's War: Colony of Virginia: Shawnees Mingos: 1775 1775 Rising of the Priests: Order of Saint John: Clergy 1775 1776 Burmese–Siamese War (1775–1776) Siam: Burma: 1775 1782 First Anglo-Maratha War: British East India Company ...
1774–1775 Pugachev's Rebellion; 1775–1783 American Revolutionary War; 1778–1779 War of the Bavarian Succession; 1784 Kettle War; 1784–1785 Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan; 1785 Battle of the Sunja; 1787 Dutch Patriot Revolt; 1787–1792 Russo-Ottoman War; 1788–1790 Russo-Swedish War; 1789–1802 French Revolutionary Wars ...
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
This ended the war in central Europe. The stalemate had really been reached by 1759–1760, and Prussia and Austria were nearly out of money. The materials of both sides had been largely consumed. Frederick was no longer receiving subsidies from Britain; the Golden Cavalry of St. George had produced nearly 13 million dollars (equivalent).
Hugo Schüllinger: Scene from peasant revolt of 1775 in Bohemia (illustration in Obrázkové dějiny národa českého, 1893) The Peasants' Revolt of 1775 in Bohemia was a struggle of Czech peasants against the authorities of the Habsburg Empire with the aim of freeing themselves from the crushing labor and serf duties of corvée in the spring of 1775 in eastern Bohemia.
The revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 and ended with the ratification of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The military phase of the revolution, the American Revolutionary War, lasted from 1775 to 1783. A list of American Revolutionary War battles gives details.
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 ...
Louis XV ruled France from 1715 to 1774.. The previous major conflict in Europe, the War of the Austrian Succession, ended in 1748 with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.This peace agreement was very unpopular with the French populace who saw the terms as excessively lenient to France's enemies, specifically Britain and the Dutch Republic, and many regarded it as a breathing space before war resumed.