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 1759 victories — Wolfe's capture of Quebec, Hawke's naval victory at Quiberon Bay, and Clive's success at Plassey — and the fiscal-military state that enabled British global operations. They discuss the European dimension: Freder...
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Around 1756
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- American Revolution (1775)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)