Maria Theresa (In Our Time)
1740 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Maria Theresa (1717-1780) who inherited the Austrian throne in 1740 at the age of 23. Her neighbours circled like wolves and, within two months, Frederick the Great had seized one of her most prized lands, Silesia, exploiting her vulnerability.
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- 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)