Seven Years' War

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The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a major global conflict involving most of the great powers of the time, often considered the first "world war" due to its battles across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia.


Statements (73)
Predicate Object
instanceOf 18th-century war
European war
colonial war
global conflict
alsoKnownAs French and Indian War (North American theater)
consequence contributed to causes of the American Revolution
increased British taxation of American colonies
shifted balance of power in Europe in favor of Britain and Prussia
weakened French monarchy financially
considered first world war by many historians
endDate 1763
endedBy Treaty of Hubertusburg (1763)
Treaty of Paris (1763)
followedBy American Revolutionary War
War of American Independence
hasDuration 7 years
impact accelerated British control over large parts of India
marked rise of Britain as dominant global naval power
reshaped colonial borders in North America
locationDescription fought across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia
mainBelligerent Habsburg Monarchy
Hanover
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of Great Britain
Kingdom of Prussia
Kingdom of Spain
Maratha Empire
Mughal Empire (nominally)
Portuguese Empire
Russian Empire
Saxony
Silesia (as contested region)
Sweden
Various Native American nations
majorBattle Battle of Kunersdorf
Battle of Lagos
Battle of Leuthen
Battle of Minden
Battle of Plassey
Battle of Quebec (1759)
Battle of Quiberon Bay
Battle of Rossbach
Siege of Havana (1762)
Siege of Manila (1762)
Siege of Prague (1757)
notableCommander Duke of Cumberland
Empress Maria Theresa (as Austrian ruler)
Frederick II of Prussia
James Wolfe
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick
Robert Clive
Tsarina Elizabeth of Russia
William Pitt the Elder (as British statesman)
precededBy War of the Austrian Succession
primaryCause Austrian attempt to recover Silesia from Prussia
rivalry between Britain and France for colonial and maritime supremacy
relatedEvent Diplomatic Revolution of 1756
result Prussian survival and retention of Silesia
decisive British victory over France in colonial and naval spheres
decline of French colonial power in North America
expansion of British Empire in North America and India
heavy war debts for Britain and France
startDate 1756
theater Atlantic Ocean
Caribbean
East Asia
Europe
Indian Ocean
North America
South Asia
West Africa
timePeriod 18th century

Referenced by (240)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
1st Baron Barham
Annus Mirabilis of 1759
Battle of Bergen
Battle of Breslau (1757)
Battle of Chandannagar
Battle of Corbach
Battle of Friedberg (1761)
Battle of Grüneberg
Battle of Kay
Battle of Kloster Kampen
Battle of Krefeld
Battle of Langensalza (1761)
Battle of Lippstadt
Battle of Lutterberg (1758)
Battle of Minden
Battle of Minorca (1756)
Battle of Nottuln
Battle of Quebec (1759)
Battle of Quiberon Bay
Battle of Rheinberg
Battle of Sainte-Foy
Battle of Sanderhausen
Battle of Soest (Seven Years' War)
Battle of Vellinghausen
Battle of Warburg
Battle of Wilhelmsthal
Battle of Ziegenhain
British campaign against New France
Charles Lee
Charles Saunders
Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise
Commander-in-Chief, North America ("French and Indian War")
Commander-in-Chief, North America
Edward Hawke
Edward Hawke
Empress Maria Theresa
Frederick II of Prussia
Frederick II of Prussia
George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle
George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend ("Seven Years’ War")
George Washington ("French and Indian War")
George Washington ("French and Indian War")
Guillermo José de la Vega y Varona
Guy Carleton
HMS Namur ("Seven Years’ War")
Horatio Gates ("French and Indian War")
Hubert de Brienne, Comte de Conflans
Hubert de Brienne, Comte de Conflans
Imperial Army
Israel Putnam ("French and Indian War")
James Wolfe
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay
Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran
Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst ("French and Indian War")
John Burgoyne
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun
John Stark ("French and Indian War")
Juan de la Torre
Leopold Joseph von Daun
Lord George Sackville
Louis XV of France
Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla
Marquis de Sade
Marshal de Contades
Mühlberg hill
Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick
Prince-Bishopric of Münster
Pyotr Saltykov ("Russo-Prussian operations in the Seven Years' War")
Richard Montgomery
Robert Rogers ("French and Indian War")
Robert Rogers
Rogers' Rangers
Royal Navy North America and West Indies Station
Royal Scots ("Seven Years’ War")
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Russian advance toward Berlin (1759)
Samuel Cornish
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
Siege of Havana (1762)
Siege of Manila (1762)
Siege of Prague (1757)
Simón de Anda y Salazar
Sir George Pocock
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage ("French and Indian War")
conflict
Battle of Bergen
Battle of Chandannagar
Battle of Corbach
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga (French and Indian War)
Battle of Friedberg (1761)
Battle of Grüneberg
Battle of Krefeld
Battle of Kunersdorf
Battle of Lagos ("Western European theatre of the Seven Years' War")
Battle of Leuthen
Battle of Lippstadt
Battle of Lutterberg (1758)
Battle of Minden
Battle of Minorca (1756) ("Anglo-French War (1756–1763)")
Battle of Nottuln
Battle of Plassey
Battle of Quebec (1759) ("French and Indian War")
Battle of Quiberon Bay
Battle of Rossbach
Battle of Sainte-Foy
Battle of Sanderhausen
Battle of Soest (Seven Years' War)
Battle of Vellinghausen
Battle of Warburg
Battle of Wilhelmsthal
Battle of Ziegenhain
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
Braddock Expedition ("Seven Years’ War")
British siege of Manila (1762)
Siege of Havana (1762)
Siege of Manila (1762)
Silesian Wars
Third Silesian War
partOf
Abenaki ("French and Indian War")
Arthur Phillip
Bourbon Spain
Charles Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia ("Seven Years’ War")
François Joseph Paul de Grasse
George II of Great Britain
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of Great Britain
New England colonial militias ("French and Indian War")
Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine
Pyotr Saltykov
Samuel Hearne ("Seven Years' War (as a sailor)")
Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie
armed forces of the Habsburg Monarchy
participatedIn
British America
British Empire
British Indian Department
Electorate of Bavaria ("Seven Years War")
European colonization of the Americas ("Seven Years' War in North America")
Foreign relations of the United Kingdom (historical)
French colonial empire
French colonial empire ("French and Indian War")
Government of the Kingdom of Great Britain
Military history of the United Kingdom
Ohio Country ("French and Indian War")
Ohio Country ("Seven Years' War in North America")
significantEvent
Adam Ferguson
Edward Boscawen
Elizabeth of Russia
John Armstrong Sr. ("French and Indian War")
Juan de Prado Malleza Portocarrero y Luna
Prince Augustus William of Prussia
Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
participantIn
Duke of Choiseul
Imperial Army (Holy Roman Empire)
Provincial Rangers
States Army of the Dutch Republic
activeDuring
American Revolutionary War ("French and Indian War")
American Revolutionary War
United States–Native American wars ("French and Indian War")
War of the Bavarian Succession
precededBy
Age of Sail
Pitt
William Pitt the Elder
associatedWithEvent
Battle of Kunersdorf
Battle of Leuthen
Battle of Rossbach
conflictOf
Treaty of Hubertusburg ("Seven Years' War in Central Europe")
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Treaty of Paris (1763) ("French and Indian War")
endedConflict
King George's War ("French and Indian War")
Renversement des alliances ("Seven Years’ War")
War of the Austrian Succession ("Seven Years’ War")
followedBy
Hubert de Brienne, Comte de Conflans
Lord Barham
Province of Massachusetts Bay ("French and Indian War")
militaryConflict
Fort Ticonderoga
Pour le Mérite
Redoutable
usedInConflict
Royal Proclamation of 1763 ("Seven Years’ War")
Third Carnatic War
cause
Minden Day
Westminster Convention (1756) ("Seven Years’ War")
conflictContext
French Crown
Prussian Army
engagedIn
Prince-Bishopric of Liège
Prussia
event
Charles Saunders ("Seven Years' War era")
Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla ("Seven Years' War era")
historicalPeriod
Mahican ("French and Indian War")
Potawatomi ("French and Indian War")
involvedInConflict
Silesian Wars
War of the Bavarian Succession
relatedTo
Battle of Minden ("European theatre of the Seven Years' War")
Battle of Rossbach ("European theatre of the Seven Years' War")
theatre
Seven Years' War ("French and Indian War (North American theater)")
alsoKnownAs
The Great Commoner
associatedEvent
Earl of Chatham
associatedWith
Neues Palais
builtAfter
Battle of Plassey ("Battles of the Seven Years' War")
category
War of Jenkins' Ear
chronologicalSuccessor
Duke of Bedford for Great Britain ("Seven Years’ War")
conflictEndedByTreaty
Battle of Lagos
conflictIn
American South (colonial and early national periods) ("French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War in North America)")
conflictInvolved
Mohawk ("French and Indian War")
conflictInvolvement
6th Regiment of Foot
conflictParticipatedIn
French Navy ("Seven Years War")
engagedInConflict
West Florida
establishedAfter
Manuel Rojo del Río y Vieyra
eventParticipatedIn
James Fenimore Cooper ("French and Indian War")
hasLiterarySetting
Georgian era
hasPart
Anglo-Prussian alliance
hasRelatedEvent
France and Austria ("Seven Years War")
historicalConflict
Pitt the Elder
influencedEvent
First Treaty of Versailles (1756)
inForceAtStartOf
Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
involvedIn
Diplomatic Revolution of 1756
isOnEveOf
Diplomatic Revolution of 1756
isRelatedToConflict
Colonial America ("French and Indian War")
majorConflict
New France
majorWar
Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran ("Seven Years' War naval campaigns")
militaryConflictContext
Royal Navy ("Seven Years War")
notableConflict
House of Hanover
notableEventDuringRule
Treaty of Hubertusburg
partOfConflict
Diplomatic Revolution of 1756
precedes
Anhalt-Zerbst
providedTroopsFor
Second Carnatic War
relatedConflict
Louisiana Purchase
relatedEvent
First Treaty of Versailles (1756)
relatedToEvent
John Parker ("French and Indian War")
servedIn
Province of New Hampshire ("French and Indian War")
significantConflict
Mühlberg hill
significantDuring
Third Silesian War ("European theatre of the Seven Years' War")
theatreOf
Journals of Major Robert Rogers ("Seven Years' War (North American theater)")
timePeriodCovered
Silesia ("Seven Years’ War")
wasContestedIn
North Sea–English Channel area
wasStrategicallyImportantIn

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