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|- ! A.D. !! |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1649. || Execution of Charles I of England. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1658. || Aurungzeb Great Mogul. Cromwell died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1660. || Charles II of England. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1674. || Nieuw Amsterdam finally became British by treaty and was renamed New York. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1683. || The last Turkish attack on Vienna defeated by John III of Poland. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1688. || The British Revolution. Flight of James II. William and Mary began to reign. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1689. || Peter the Great of Russia (to 1725). |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1690. || Battle of the Boyne in Ireland. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1694. || Voltaire born. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1701. || Frederick I first King of Prussia. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1704. || John Locke, the father of modern democratic theory, died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1707. || Death of Aurungzeb. The empire of the Great Mogul disintegrated. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1713. || Frederick the Great of Prussia born. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1714. || George I of Britain. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1715. || Louis XV of France. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1727. || Newton died. George II of Britain. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1732. || Oglethorpe founded Georgia. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1736. || Nadir Shah raided India. (The beginning of twenty years of raiding and disorder in India.) |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1740. || Maria-Theresa began to reign. (Being a woman, she could not be empress. Her husband, Francis I, was emperor until his death in 1765, when her son, Joseph II, succeeded him.) |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1740. || Accession of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1741. || The Empress Elizabeth of Russia began to reign. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1755-63. || Britain and France struggled for America and India. France in alliance with Austria and Russia against Prussia and Britain (1756-63); the Seven Years' War. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1757. || Battle of Plassey. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1759. || The British general Wolfe took Quebec. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1760. || George III of Britain. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1762. || The Empress Elizabeth of Russia died. Murder of the Tsar Paul, and accession of Catherine the Great of Russia (to 1796). |}