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This is a timeline of German history, ... 1756 29 August: Third Silesian War (Seven Years' War): Prussia invaded Saxony. 1763: 15 February:
The siege of Pirna (or Investment of Pirna) took place in 1756 as part of the Prussian invasion of Saxony during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years' War). Following the occupation of the capital Dresden by Frederick the Great on 9 September the Saxon army had withdrawn south and taken up position at the fortress of Pirna under ...
From the 1680s to 1789, Germany comprised many small territories which were parts of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.Prussia finally emerged as dominant. Meanwhile, the states developed a classical culture that found its greatest expression in the Enlightenment, with world class leaders such as philosophers Leibniz and Kant, writers such as Goethe and Schiller, and musicians Bach ...
The 1756 Düren earthquake occurred on the morning at 8 a.m. near the town of Düren with a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale. It was one of the strongest earthquakes in Central Europe, and the strongest in Germany's recorded history. [1] The depth of the hypocenter is estimated at 14–16 kilometres (8.7–9.9 mi). [2]
On 18 February 1756, at about 8 am, one of the strongest earthquakes in Central Europe, the strongest reported in Germany to date, struck Düren. [2] [6] The hypocentre is judged to have been at 14–16 km. [7] It followed the 1755 Lisbon earthquake by several months and was the culmination of a series of quakes in Germany that had lasted ...
The longest war in German history became, with the intervention of major powers, a global war. ... and sided against Prussia during the Seven Years' War of 1756 ...
Habsburg monarchy (German Habsburgermonarchie): this is an unofficial umbrella term, ... 1756. Over the course of its history, other lands were, at times, ...
1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1756th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 756th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1750s decade. As of the start of 1756, the ...