Seven Years' War 1756–1763

Kingdom of Great Britain, Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Kingdom of Prussia, Duchy of Brunswick, Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Iroquois, Kingdom of Portugal, Hesse ⚔ Kingdom of France, Habsburg monarchy, Russian Empire, Spain, Sweden, Age of Liberty, Electorate of Saxony, Mughal Empire

Key battles

Battle of Jumonville Glen (1754)
Battle of Fort Necessity (1754)
Battle of the Monongahela (1755)
Battle of Lake George (1755)
Battle of Fort Beauséjour (1755)
Battle of Lobositz (1756)
Siege of Pirna (1756)
Battle of Fort Oswego (1756)
Battle of Fort Bull (1756)
Battle of Rossbach (1757)
Battle of Kolín (1757)
Battle of Leuthen (1757)
Battle of Prague (1757)
Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf (1757)
Siege of Fort William Henry (1757)
Battle of Hastenbeck (1757)
Battle of Reichenberg (1757)
Battle of Breslau (1757)
Battle of Zorndorf (1758)
Battle of Hochkirch (1758)
Battle of Carillon (1758)
Battle of Domstadtl (1758)
Siege of Louisbourg (1758)
Battle of Fort Duquesne (1758)
Battle of Krefeld (1758)
Battle of Lutterberg (1758)
Battle of Tornow (1758)
Siege of Olomouc (1758)
Battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759)
Battle of Kunersdorf (1759)
Battle of Maxen (1759)
Battle of Minden (1759)
Battle of Bergen (1759)
Sieges of Kolberg (1759)
Battle of Kay (1759)
Battle of Hoyerswerda (1759)
Battle of Ticonderoga (1759)
Battle of Meissen (1759)
Battle of Beauport (1759)
Battle of Torgau (1760)
Battle of Landeshut (1760)
Battle of Liegnitz (1760)
Battle of Wandiwash (1760)
Battle of Warburg (1760)
Battle of Sainte-Foy (1760)
Battle of Kloster Kampen (1760)
Battle of Villinghausen (1761)
Battle of Signal Hill (1762)
Battle of Burkersdorf (1762)
Battle of Havana (1762)
Battle of Freiberg (1762)
Battle of Buxar (1764)

Who lived through the Seven Years' War

Well-known people alive during 1756–1763:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) — German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) — Austrian composer of the Classical period (1756-1791)
George Washington (1732–1799) — Founding Father and first U.S. president; soldier and slave owner (1732–1799)
Voltaire (1694–1778) — French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) — German philosopher (1724-1804)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) — Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
Adam Smith (1723–1790) — Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) — American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) — Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)
Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) — Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
John Adams (1735–1826) — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735–1826)
James Cook (1728–1779) — British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
Francisco Goya (1746–1828) — Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) — German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) — Japanese artist (1760-1849)
James Madison (1751–1836) — President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
William Blake (1757–1827) — English poet and artist (1757–1827)
James Watt (1736–1819) — British engineer (1736–1819)
David Hume (1711–1776) — Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) — Austrian composer (1732–1809)
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) — German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
James Monroe (1758–1831) — president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (1758–1831)
Catherine II of Russia (1729–1796) — eighth Emperor of Russia, called the Great, r. 1762–1796 (lived 1729-1796)
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) — French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)

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