Chapter 15: Successful and Unsuccessful
Paths to Power (1686-1740)
SPAIN
Philip III (r. 1598-1621)
Philip IV (r. 1621-1665)
Count Duke Olivares (1587-1645)
Charles II (r. 1665-1700) *Last Habsburg King
Philip V (r. 1700-1746) *First Bourbon King
NETHERLANDS
William of Orange (1650-1702) *King William III of England [r. 1689-1702]
Stadtholder
Bourse
Dutch East Indies Company
FRANCE
Louis XV (r. 1715-1774)
Mississippi Bubble
Parlements
Cardinal Fleury (1653-1743)
GREAT BRITAIN
George I (r. 1714-1727) *First Hanover King
George II (r. 1727-1760)
James Edward Stuart (1688-1766) *The “Old Pretender”
Robert Walpole (1676-1745)
Whigs
Tories
South Sea Bubble
Excise Tax Issue
SWEDEN
Charles XII (r. 1689-1702)
The Great Northern War (1700-1721)
Battle of Narva (1700)
Battle of Poltava (1709)
Peace of Nystad (1721)
POLAND
William of Orange (1650-1702) *King William III of England [r. 1689-1702]
Sejm
Liberum Veto (“exploding the diet”)
AUSTRIA
Leopold I (r. 1657-1705)
Joseph I (r. 1705-1711)
Charles VI (r. 1711-1740)
Francis I (r. 1745-1765)
Maria Theresa (1717-1780)
Diet
Treaty of Karlowitz (1699)
Pragmatic Sanction
PRUSSIA
The Hohenzollern Dynasty
Elector Frederick William (r. 1640-1688) *‘The Great Elector’
Elector Frederick III/King Frederick I (r. 1688-1713, becoming King in 1701)
King Frederick William I (r. 1713-1740) *‘The Soldier King’
King Frederick II (r. 1740-1786) *‘Frederick the Great’
Junkers
Tall Soldiers
The General Directory (1723)
Sparta of the North
RUSSIA
Mongols
Moscow/Muscovite Princes
Ivan III (r. 1462-1505) *‘Ivan the Great’
Ivan IV (r.1533-1584) *‘Ivan the Terrible’
Boyars
Streltsy
Cossacks
The “Time of Troubles” (1598-1613)
The Romanov Dynasty
Michael Romanov (r. 1613-1645)
Alexis I (r. 1645-1676)
Treaty of Andrusovo (1667)
Nikon (1605-1681)
Theodore III (r. 1676-1682)
Peter I (r. 1682-1725) *‘Peter the Great’
Charles XII (r.1697-1718) *King of Sweden
The Great Northern War (1700-1721)
Battle of Narva (1700)
Battle of Poltava (1709)
Peace of Nystad (1721)
The Holy Synod (1721)
Table of Ranks (1722)
Catherine I (r. 1725-1727)
Peter II (r. 1727-1730)
Anne (r. 1730-1740)
Ivan VI (r. 1740-1741)
Elizabeth (r. 1741-1762)
Peter III (r. 1762)
Catherine II (r. 1762-1796) *‘Catherine the Great’