Born on February 15, 1710, Louis XV was king of France for 59 years, from February 1715 until his death in May 1774. Because Louis XV's parents and surviving brother had died, he became king at the age of 5 following the death of his great-grandfather, Louis XIV. As a result of ...
(Placename) a former German state in N and central Germany, extending from France and the Low Countries to the Baltic Sea and Poland: developed as the chief military power of the Continent, leading the North German Confederation from 1867–71, when the German Empire was established; dissolved...
King Louis XV or Louis the Well-Loved was the King of France from 1715 till 1774. The instability during his reign was one of the reasons that led to the French Revolution.
The two main candidates were the Austrian Habsburg Archduke Charles, and 16-year-old Philip of Anjou, grandson of Charles' half-sister Maria Theresa and Louis XIV of France. Shortly before his death in November 1700, Charles named Philip his heir, but the acquisition of an undivided Spanish ...
In 1762, Carlos was betrothed to his first cousinMaria Luisa of Parma, the daughter of his paternal uncleFelipe, Infante of Spain, Duke of Parma, the founder of theHouse of Bourbon-Parma, andLouise Élisabeth of France, the daughter ofKing Louis XV of France. The marriage was intended to...
next year, a Massachusetts-planned expedition under WilliamPepperrellwith a British fleet under Sir Peter Warren tookLouisburg. Border warfare was severe but not conclusive. The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) returned Louisburg to France, but the hostile feelings that had been aroused did not ...
List of notable or famous diplomats from the United Kingdom, with bios and photos, including the top diplomats born in the United Kingdom and even some ...
mainland. Of the colonies Spain established in the region, only St. Augustine, founded in 1565, remains. Later Spanish settlements in the present-day southwest- ern United States drew thousands through Mexico. French fur traders established outposts of New France around the Great Lakes; France ...
by foreign subsidies. When Frederick William died in 1740, he left his son an army of about 83,000 out of a population of 2,200,000, a war chest of more than 8,000,000 taler, and a Prussia that had become the third military power on the European continent, after Russia and France...
The present-day nation also includes the Channel Islands off the coast of France and the Isle of Man between Britain and Ireland, which are substantially self-governing. Northern Ireland and Scotland have separate legal and educational systems and issue their own currency; Wales is fully ...