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. 1789. The French States-General assembled. Storming of the Bastille. 1791. Flight to Varennes. 1792. France declared war on Austria. Prussia declared war on France. Battle of Valmy. France became a republic. 1793. Louis XVI beheaded. 1794. Execution of Robespierre and end of the Jacobin republic. 1795. The Directory. Bonaparte suppressed a revolt and went to Italy as commander-in-chief. 1798. Bonaparte went to Egypt. Battle of the Nile. 1799. Bonaparte returned to France. He became First Consul with enormous powers. 1804. Bonaparte became Emperor. Francis II took the title of Emperor of Austria in 1805, and in 1806 he dropped the title of Holy Roman Emperor. So the “Holy Roman Empire” came to an end. 1806. Prussia overthrown at Jena. 1808. Napoleon made his brother Joseph King of Spain. 1810. Spanish America became republican. 1812. Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. 1814. Abdication of Napoleon. Louis XVIII. 1824. Charles X of France. 1825. Nicholas I of Russia. First railway, Stockton to Darlington. 1827. Battle of Navarino. 1829. Greece independent. 1830. A year of disturbance. Louis Philippe ousted Charles X. Belgium broke away from Holland. Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha became king of this new country, Belgium. Russian Poland revolted ineffectually. 1835. The word “socialism” first used. 1837. Queen Victoria. 1840. Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 1852. Napoleon III Emperor of the French. 1854-56. Crimean War. 1856. Alexander II of Russia. 1861. Victor Emmanuel First King of Italy. Abraham Lincoln became President, U. S. A. The American Civil War began. 1865. Surrender of Appomattox Court House. Japan opened to the world. 1870. Napoleon III declared war against Prussia. 1871. Paris surrendered (January). The King of Prussia became “German Emperor.” The Peace of Frankfort. 1878. The Treaty of Berlin. The Armed Peace of forty-six years began in western Europe.