Frederick the Great: King of Prussia (Blanning, 2015)
1740 · Resource
Tim Blanning's biography of the soldier-philosopher king who made Prussia a great power.
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- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1775)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)