War of the Austrian Succession 1740–1748

Kingdom of France, Kingdom of Prussia, Spain, History of Spain (1700–1810), Electorate of Bavaria, Electorate of Saxony, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Kingdom of Sicily ⚔ Habsburg monarchy, Kingdom of Great Britain, Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Dutch Republic, Electorate of Saxony, Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Russian Empire

Key battles

• Battle of Mollwitz (1741)
• Battle of Cartagena de Indias (1741)
• Battle of Chotusitz (1742)
• Battle of Dettingen (1743)
• Battle of Fontenoy (1745)
• Battle of Hohenfriedberg (1745)
• Battle of Soor (1745)
• Battle of Kesselsdorf (1745)
• Battle of Hennersdorf (1745)
• Battle of Pfaffenhofen (1745)
• Battle of Rocoux (1746)
• Battle of Piacenza (1746)
• Battle of Lauffeld (1747)
• Battle of Assietta (1747)

Who lived through the War of the Austrian Succession

Well-known people alive during 1740–1748:

• George Washington (1732–1799) — Founding Father and first U.S. president; soldier and slave owner (1732–1799)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) — German composer (1685–1750)
• 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)
• Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) — Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
• 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)
• Montesquieu (1689–1755) — French philosopher (1689–1755)
• 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)
• Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) — English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
• Thomas Paine (1737–1809) — American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)
• Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) — French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
• Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786) — King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 (1712-1786)
• Alexander Pope (1688–1744) — English poet (1688–1744)

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