War of the Spanish Succession 1701–1714

Kingdom of France, Spain, Bourbon Spain, Electorate of Bavaria ⚔ Holy Roman Empire, Habsburg monarchy, Kingdom of Prussia, Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Great Britain, Dutch Republic, Duchy of Savoy

Key battles

• Battle of Carpi (1701)
• Battle of Chiari (1701)
• Battle of Cremona (1702)
• Battle of Luzzara (1702)
• Battle of Friedlingen (1702)
• Battle of Cádiz (1702)
• First Battle of Höchstädt (1703)
• Battle of Ekeren (1703)
• Battle of Blenheim (1704)
• Battle of Schellenberg (1704)
• Capture of Gibraltar (1704)
• Battle of Cassano (1705)
• Siege of Barcelona (1705)
• Battle of Elixheim (1705)
• Battle of Ramillies (1706)
• Siege of Turin (1706)
• Battle of Calcinato (1706)
• Battle of Castiglione (1706)
• Siege of Barcelona (1706)
• Battle of Almansa (1707)
• Siege of Toulon (1707)
• Battle of Oudenarde (1708)
• Siege of Lille (1708)
• Battle of Malplaquet (1709)
• Battle of Villaviciosa (1710)
• Battle of Saragossa (1710)
• Battle of Almenar (1710)
• Battle of Brihuega (1710)
• Battle of Denain (1712)
• Siege of Barcelona (1713)

Who lived through the War of the Spanish Succession

Well-known people alive during 1701–1714:

• 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)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) — American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
• Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) — Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) — German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
• Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) — Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
• Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) — King of France and of Navarre from 1643 to 1715 (1638-1715)
• 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)
• George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) — German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
• Montesquieu (1689–1755) — French philosopher (1689–1755)
• Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) — English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)
• Alexander Pope (1688–1744) — English poet (1688–1744)
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) — Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
• George Berkeley (1685–1753) — Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop (1685–1753)
• Edmond Halley (1656–1742) — English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
• Anders Celsius (1701–1744) — Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
• Aurangzeb (1618–1707) — the sixth Mughal Emperor from 1658 to 1707
• Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) — Italian playwright (1707-1793)
• Anne of Great Britain (1665–1714) — Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714 (1665–1714)
• Benedict XIV (1675–1758) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1740 to 1758
• Robert Walpole (1676–1745) — British statesman and art collector, 1st Earl of Orford (1676–1745)
• Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) — French natural historian (1707-1788)

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