Frederick the Great (In Our Time)
1740 · Resource
Frederick the Great ruled Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. Born in 1712, he increased the power of the state, he made Prussia the leading military power in Europe and his bold campaigns had great implications for the European political landscape. An absolute monarch in the age of enlightenment, he was a prolific writer, attracted figures such as Voltaire to his court, fostered education and put Berlin firmly on the cultural map.
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Around 1740
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)