The Seven Years' War (TRIH ep 47)
1756 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History features hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interviewing Dan Snow about the Seven Years' War. The conversation surveys the global conflict (commonly dated 1756–1763) across North America, India and Europe, highlighting pivotal victories — Wolfe's capture of Quebec and Hawke's naval victory at Quiberon Bay in 1759, and Clive's success at Plassey in 1757 — and the fiscal-military state that enabled British global operations.
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Around 1756
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)