Nelson: Hero of the Seas (TRIH eps 514-518)
1758–1798 · Resource
A five-part series on Horatio Nelson: his Norfolk childhood and early career, service on the Agamemnon in the Mediterranean, fame at Cape St Vincent in 1797, the hunt for Napoleon's fleet, and the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1758
- 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)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)