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Felipe V of Spain (The Succesion War)
King of Spain (1700-January 1724; August 1724-1746)
He inherited the Spanish throne when Carlos II died (last monarch of the house of Austria or Habsburg in Spain) without descendants and to name him as heir to his death in 1700.
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THE SUCCESSION WAR
The war of succession was a conflict that lasted 12 years from 1701 to 1713 with the Treaty of Utrech. When Carlos II died without descendants, Spain, was adrift, so portentous nations such as England, Holland, Austria, Portugal, Savoy and Austria wanted to take over the Spanish country and went to war. -
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Frederick the Great (The War of the Seven Years)
He fought in person innumerable battles, which earned him fame as an expert commander and even great. Its greater triumph obtained it in Leuthen, in 1757, in front of a francoaustríaco army that doubled to his in cash. Napoleon considered that battle "a masterpiece of movement, maneuver and resolution." -
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Adam Smith (Industrial Revolution)
He published the inaugural work of the so-called "classical school" of economic thought: the Essay on the Wealth of Nations (1776). With it finally acquired economics the rank of independent science of philosophy and politics. -
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David Hartley (Paris Treaty)
Was a statesman, a scientific inventor, and the son of the philosopher David Hartley. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull, and also held the position of His Britannic Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary, appointed by King George III to treat with the United States of America as to American independence and other issues after the American Revolution. He was a signatory to the Treaty of Paris. -
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Carlos III (Bourbon Reforms)
King of Naples (1734-1759) and Spain (1759-1788), belonging to the House of Bourbon (Madrid, 1716-1788). He was the third son of Felipe V and the first he had with his second wife, Isabel de Farnesio, for what was his stepbrother Fernando VI, who succeeded his father in the Spanish Throne. -
THE WAR OF THE 7 YEARS
The struggle between France and Britain began in 1754 with the British attack on French positions in North America and the attack on French merchant ships, Britain becoming a world power. The causes of war were the different pacts or treaties between powers, driven by their colonial interests, desire for power and search for balance of forces. -
BOURBON REFORMS
Bourbon Spain was the beginning of a national, political and economic renaissance in which Charles III, son of Philip V, assumed a position in favor of liberal ideas and appropriately embodied enlightened despotism; he implemented a series of reforms with the aim of removing the empire from decay and ruin. It is during this period that there was a change in the legal structure, as it moves from a universal monarchy to a national monarchy. -
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
We call Industrial Revolution the fundamental change that takes place in a society when its economy stops being based on agriculture and crafts to depend on the industry. -
PARIS TREATY
The Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783 between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America and ended the war of Independence of the United States. The fatigue of the participants and the evidence that the distribution of forces, with the English predominance at sea, made a military outcome impossible, led to the cessation of hostilities.
