After the Peace of Hubertsburg in 1763 between Austria, Prussia and Saxony, Prussia became a European great power.

* 1722 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony ( d. 1763 )

* September 5 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony ( d. 1763 )

* 23 December 1750 – 5 October 1763: His Serene Highness Prince Friedrich August of Saxony

* 5 October 1763 – 17 December 1763: His Serene Highness The Electoral Prince of Saxony

* 17 December 1763 – 20 December 1806: His Serene Highness The Elector of Saxony

Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony ( Friedrich Christian Leopold Johann Georg Franz Xaver ; 5 September 1722 – 17 December 1763 ) was the Prince-Elector of Saxony for less than three months in 1763.

* 1 February 1733-5 October 1763 His Serene Highness The Electoral Prince of Saxony

* 5 October 1763-17 December 1763 His Serene Highness The Elector of Saxony

* a Cent-Suisse unit was in existence from 1730 until 1757 and again from 1763 to 1814 in the Kingdom of Saxony.

The Battle of Rossbach ( November 5, 1757 ) took place during the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ) near the village of Roßbach, in the Electorate of Saxony.

* Saxony: Frederick Augustus I ( 1763 – 1827 )

They had a son, Frederick Augustus II ( 1696 – 1763 ), who succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony and King of Poland as Augustus III.

Augustus III (; 17 October 1696 5 October 1763 ) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1734 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire from 1733 until 1763 as Frederick Augustus II ().

* Frederick Christian Leopold Johann Georg Franz Xavier ( b. Dresden, 5 September 1722-d. Dresden, 17 December 1763 ), successor to his father as Elector of Saxony.

* Franz Xavier Albert August Ludwig Benno ( b. Dresden, 25 August 1730-d. Dresden, 21 June 1806 ), Regent of Saxony ( 1763 – 1768 ).

The Treaty of Hubertusburg () was signed on 15 February 1763 at Hubertusburg by Prussia, Austria, and Saxony.

When King August III of Poland, also an Elector of Saxony, who usually lived in Dresden, died in 1763, Bellotto's work became less important in Dresden.

* 1471 – George, Duke of Saxony ( d. 1539 )

* Albert, Duke of Saxony ( 1443 – 1500 ), sometimes called " Albert III "

Albert the Bear (; c. 1100 – 18 November 1170 ) was the first Margrave of Brandenburg ( as Albert I ) from 1157 to his death and was briefly Duke of Saxony between 1138 and 1142.

# Count Bernhard of Anhalt ( 1140 – 9 February 1212 ), Duke of Saxony from 1180-1212 as Bernard III

* 1561 – Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.

* 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years ' War.

* 1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony ( d. 1797 )

* 1694 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony ( b. 1668 )

* Duchy and Electorate of Saxony: 1112, 1139 – 1142, 1180 – 1422

Anthony ( Dresden, 27 December 1755 – Dresden, 6 June 1836 ), also known by his German name Anton ( full name: Anton Clemens Theodor Maria Joseph Johann Evangelista Johann Nepomuk Franz Xavier Aloys Januar ), was a King of Saxony ( 1827 – 1836 ) from the House of Wettin.

Albert III () ( 27 January 1443 – 12 September 1500 ) was a Duke of Saxony.

Ernest, Elector of Saxony ( 1464 – 1486 ), Frederick II, Elector of Saxony ( 1428 – 1464 ) and Albert III, Duke of Saxony ( 1486 – 1500 ); Fürstenzug, Dresden, Germany

Reopened at Trent on 1 May 1551 by convocation of Pope Julius III ( 1550 – 5 ), it was broken up by the sudden victory of Maurice, Elector of Saxony over the Emperor Charles V and his march into surrounding state of Tirol on 28 April 1552.

* 1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.

Albert ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Anton Ferdinand Joseph Karl Maria Baptist Nepomuk Wilhelm Xaver Georg Fidelis ) ( Dresden, 23 April 1828 – Schloss Sibyllenort ( Szczodre ), 19 June 1902 ) was a King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

After this Anton became, officially, the Heir to the Electorate and, since 1806, the Kingdom of Saxony.

Between 1806 and 1918 the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Saxony ( which was a part of the German Empire from 1871 ).

Within months of the collapse of the Third Coalition, the Fourth Coalition ( 1806 – 07 ) against France was formed by Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Frederick Augustus was proclaimed king of Saxony on 20 December 1806.

* 20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827: His Majesty The King of Saxony

Following the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt of October 1806 in the War of the Fourth Coalition, various other German states, including Saxony and Westphalia, also joined the Confederation.

After the Battle of Austerlitz, where he commanded the grenadiers in the absence of General Oudinot, he was employed in a series of important negotiations with Frederick William III of Prussia, with the elector of Saxony ( December 1806 ), in the incorporation of certain states in the Confederation of the Rhine, and in the conclusion of the armistice of Znaim ( July 1809 ).

The Saxons were one of the most robust groups in the late tribal culture of the times, and eventually bequeathed their tribe's name to a variety of more and more modern geo-political territories from Old Saxony near the mouth of the Elbe up the river via the Prussian Province of Saxony ( in present-day Saxony-Anhalt ) to Upper Saxony, the Electorate and Kingdom of Saxony from 1806 corresponding with the German Free State of Saxony, which bears the name today though it was not part of the medieval duchy ( see map on the right ).

The junior Albertine branch ruled as Electors ( 1547 – 1806 ) and Kings of Saxony ( 1806 – 1918 ) and also played a role in Polish history: two Wettin were Kings of Poland ( between 1697 – 1763 ) and a third ruled the Duchy of Warsaw ( 1807 – 1814 ) as a satellite of Napoleon.

The Kingdom of Saxony (), lasting between 1806 and 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany.

Before 1806 Saxony was part of the Holy Roman Empire, a thousand-year-old entity which had once aspired to be a single state, but had become highly decentralised over the centuries.

Following the defeat of Saxony's ally Prussia at the Battle of Jena in 1806, Saxony joined the Confederation of the Rhine, and remained within the Confederation until its dissolution in 1813 with Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig.

The Fourth Coalition ( 1806 – 1807 ) of Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Sweden and the United Kingdom against France formed within months of the collapse of the previous coalition.

After giving Napoleon an ultimatum on 1 October 1806, Prussia ( supported by Saxony ) finally decided to contend militarily with the French Emperor.

Once hostilities seemed inevitable in September 1806, Napoleon unleashed all French forces east of the Rhine, deploying the corps of the Grande Armée along the frontier of southern Saxony.

Meanwhile Saxony was elevated to a kingdom on 11 December 1806 upon allying with France and joining the Confederation of the Rhine, thereby leaving the Allied Coalition.

Towards the end of 1806, the French entered Poland and Napoleon Bonaparte created a new Duchy of Warsaw, to be ruled by his new ally the King of Saxony.