War of the Quadruple Alliance 1718–1720

Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of France, Habsburg monarchy, Dutch Republic, Duchy of Savoy ⚔ Spain, Jacobitism

Key battles

• Battle of Glen Shiel (1719)

Who lived through the War of the Quadruple Alliance

Well-known people alive during 1718–1720:

• Isaac Newton (1643–1727) — English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) — German composer (1685–1750)
• Voltaire (1694–1778) — French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) — Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
• 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)
• Peter the Great (1672–1725) — Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) — Italian composer and violinist (1678-1741)
• Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) — Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
• David Hume (1711–1776) — Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
• George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) — German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
• Montesquieu (1689–1755) — French philosopher (1689–1755)
• Denis Diderot (1713–1784) — French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
• Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) — English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)
• Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) — English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
• Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786) — King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 (1712-1786)
• Alexander Pope (1688–1744) — English poet (1688–1744)
• Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783) — French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) — Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
• Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765) — Russian polymath (1711-1765)
• George Berkeley (1685–1753) — Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop (1685–1753)
• Louis XV of France (1710–1774) — King of France and of Navarre from 1715 to 1774 (1710–1774)
• Maria Theresa of Austria (1717–1780) — ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)
• Edmond Halley (1656–1742) — English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)

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