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
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)