Frederick the Great
1712–1786 · Person
Soldier-king of Prussia; brilliant general (Rossbach, Leuthen) and Enlightenment monarch; doubled Prussian territory.
On these timelines: Germany, People, Master
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- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Around 1712
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- George Washington (1732)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
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- Age of Enlightenment (1685)