LXVII THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD

	War of the Fronde; it ended in the complete victory of the French crown.
1660.	Charles II of England.
1674.	Nieuw Amsterdam finally became British by treaty and was renamed New York.
1683.	The last Turkish attack on Vienna defeated by John III of Poland.
1689.	Peter the Great of Russia. (To 1725.)
1701.	Frederick I first King of Prussia.
1707.	Death of Aurungzeb. The empire of the Great Mogul disintegrated.
1713.	Frederick the Great of Prussia born.
1715.	Louis XV of France.
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.
1759.	The British general, Wolfe, took Quebec.
1760.	George III of Britain.
1763.	Peace of Paris; Canada ceded to Britain. British dominant in India.
1769.	Napoleon Bonaparte born.
1774.	Louis XVI began his reign.
1776.	Declaration of Independence by the United States of America.
1783.	Treaty of Peace between Britain and the new United States of America.
1787.	The Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia set up the Federal Government of the United States. France discovered to be bankrupt.
1788.	First Federal Congress of the United States at New York.

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