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Event
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1689 - 1697 |
War of the Grand Alliance (Europe led by England to contain expasionist policies of Louis XIV, France) |
*France |
| Details |
1702 - 1713 |
Queen Anne's War, Britain against France |
*France |
| Details |
1725 - 1726 |
Treaty of Hanover: France, Prussia, England v. Spain, Austria. |
*France
*Spain |
| Details |
1733 |
Continental: Alliance between France and Spain called "The Family Compact." |
*France
*Spain |
| Details |
1738 |
Third Treaty of Vienna: England left out, humiliated; France gains power, prestige. |
*France |
| Details |
1744 - 1748 |
King George's War, Britain versus France in America |
*France |
| Details |
1746 |
A Frenchman, Dupleix, ousts the Nawab of Madras, and important British port in India (in the Carnatic). |
*France
*India |
| Details |
Apr 1746 |
5000 Highlanders faced the Duke of Cumberland leading 9000 loyalist Scots and are routed at the battle of Culloden. Charles fled back to France, ending Jacobite hopes forever.
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*Scotland
*Jacobites
*France |
| Details |
1748 |
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle gives Madras back to the British. |
*India
*France |
| Details |
1749 |
French candidate for Nawab of Madras succeeds after Palace revolution, giving Madras back
to the French. |
*India
*France |
| Details |
1751 |
British forces led by Robert Clive defeat the French puppet at Arcot and Britain retrieves
the Carnatic (Madras). |
*India
*France |
| Details |
1754 - 1763 |
Nine Year's War between Britain and France (called the French and Indian War in U.S., the Seven Year's War [beg. 1756] in Europe) |
*France |
| Details |
1756 |
The Seven Years War with France--Pitt's trade war--begins. |
*France
*Economics
*Colonialism |
| Details |
1763 |
Peace with France gives back everything Pitt fought to obtain (Newfoundland fishing rights, Guadaloupe and Martininque [sugar trade], Dakar [gum trade]). John Wilkes is imprisoned in the Tower for his North Briton article; the judge Lord Camden rules against the government, thereby outlawing "general warrants," instruments of arbitrary imprisonment. |
*France
*Colonialism
*Economics |
| Details |
Aug 15, 1769 |
Napoleon Bonaparte born, Ajaccio, Corsica. |
*France |
| Details |
1789 - 1799 |
France: The French Revolution, ending with the overthrow of the Directory by Napoleon Bonaparte. |
*France
*French Revolution |
| Details |
May 24, 1792 |
Arthur Young, Travels (pro-France). |
*France |
| Details |
1793 |
William Wilberforce's second bill for abolition passed by Commons but defeated by Lords. Commons narrowly rejects motions to reintroduce general abolition and to abolish the British foreign slave trade. A compromise is forged by slavery advocate Sir William Dundas, at the behest of Prime Minister Pitt, providing for gradual abolition by January 1, 1796. It passes 230 to 85--but fails later. Decline of public agitation and abolition society activity. Britain begins campaign to capture the French slave islands. Tobago and Cape Nicolas-Mole on St. Domingue are occupied. |
*Abolition
*France |
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1794 |
William Dundas recants, arguing against abolition, and the compromise is not enacted (see 1793). Commons passes a foreign abolition bill. Lords tables the bill in favor of continued hearings on general abolition. Britain temporarily conquers Guadeloupe, St. Lucia, and large sections of St. Domingue; this enterprise costs 4,500,000 pounds and 80,000 soldiers. Martinique permanently occupied. Sugar reaches its low price point before 1799. French ships raid the African coast, including Sierra Leone. |
*Abolition
*France |
| Details |
1794 |
The French Convention abolishes slavery in the French colonies. France conquers Holland. |
*France
*Abolition
*French Revolution |
| Details |
1795 |
French Revolution: Peace treaties with Prussia, Holland, and Spain; General Napoleon, working under the Directory government, represses a royalist uprising. |
*Spain
*French Revolution
*France |
| Details |
Nov 3, 1798 |
Ireland: Wolfe Tone arrested after arriving in Lough Swilly with another French force. |
*Ireland
*France |
| Details |
1801 |
Peace preliminaries are signed with France. |
*France |
| Details |
Oct 1, 1801 |
Truce between Britain and France. |
*France |
| Details |
1802 |
France reoccupies Switzerland. |
*France |
