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19 apr 2024 · The Nine Years' War [c], was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance. [d] Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial possessions in the Americas, India, and West Africa. Related conflicts include the Williamite war in Ireland, and King William's War in North America.
- 27 September 1688 – 20 September 1697, (8 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
2 giorni fa · William and Louis agreed to the First Partition Treaty (1698), which provided for the division of the Spanish Empire: Joseph Ferdinand, Electoral Prince of Bavaria, would obtain Spain, while France and the Holy Roman Emperor would divide the remaining territories between them.
- 1689 – 8 March 1702
- Mary, Princess Royal
3 giorni fa · The Draft History of the Qing records the Chinese Qing dynasty as formally commencing trade with the British in 1698. [44] Within the first two decades of the 17th century, the Dutch East India Company or Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie , (VOC) was the wealthiest commercial operation in the world with 50,000 employees worldwide and a private ...
8 apr 2024 · Pietro Metastasio (born Jan. 3, 1698, Rome—died April 12, 1782, Vienna) was an Italian poet and the most celebrated librettist in Europe writing during the 18th century for the opera seria; his librettos were set more than 800 times. In 1708 his astonishing skill in verse improvisation attracted the attention of Gian Vincenzo Gravina, a man ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
30 mar 2024 · α 3 gennaio 1698 ω 12 aprile 1782 Il riformatore del melodramma italiano Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi, dal 1715 noto come Pietro Metastasio, traduzione greca del suo cognome, nasce a Roma il 3 gennaio del 1698.
1 apr 2024 · William Paterson (born April 1658, Tinwald, Dumfries, Scotland—died January 22, 1719) was a Scottish founder of the Bank of England, writer on economic issues, and the prime mover behind an unsuccessful Scottish settlement at Darién on the Isthmus of Panama. By 1686 Paterson was a London merchant and a member of the Merchant Taylors’ Company.
10 apr 2024 · War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), conflict that arose out of the disputed succession to the throne of Spain following the death of the childless Charles II, the last of the Spanish Habsburgs. The treaties that ended the war marked the rise of the power of Britain and the British colonial empire.
