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Frederick the Great ( 1712 – 1786 ) was one of Europe's enlightened monarch s.
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He is defined by Thomas Carlyle as " a failure of a Fritz ," with " features " of a Frederick the Great in him, " but who burnt away his splendid qualities as a mere temporary shine for the able editors, and never came to anything, full of fire, too much of it wildfire, not in the least like an Alcibiades except in the change of fortune he underwent ".
* 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years ' War.
Frederick William, known as the " Great Elector ", who had succeeded his father George William as ruler in 1640, initiated a policy of promoting immigration and religious tolerance.
In 1740, Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great ( 1740 – 1786 ), came to power.
During the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the city state was annexed by King Frederick the Great of the Kingdom of Prussia.
Returning from Saint Petersburg, they visited Frederick the Great in Rheinsberg.
After his death Frederick the Great, who several times needed Algarotti writing texts in Latin, sent in a text for a monument to his memory on the Campo Santo in Pisa, Italy.
* Correspondence with Frederick the Great at Digitale Ausgabe der Universitätsbibliothek Trier
* MacDonogh, G. ( 1999 ) Frederick the Great.
* Frederick Douglass appears as a Great Humanitarian in the 2008 strategy video game Civilization Revolution.
During World War II, in order to protect it from advancing allied forces, Hitler ordered the king ’ s coffin, as well as those of Frederick the Great and Paul von Hindenburg, into hiding, first to Berlin and later to a salt mine outside of Bernestrode.
Frederick William married his first cousin Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, George II's younger sister ( daughter of his uncle, King George I of Great Britain and Sophia Dorothea of Celle ) on 28 November 1706.
Alongside with Carlyle the Great Man theory was supported by American scholar Frederick Adams Woods.
He was the father of Frederick William, the " Great Elector ".
Their only son Frederick William later became known as the " Great Elector ".
From 1640, Brandenburg-Prussia had started to rise under the Great Elector, Frederick William.
Louis XIV ultimately had to relinquish the Electorate of the Palatinate. Frederick II of Prussia | Frederick II, the Great, of Prussia ( 1712 – 1786 ) Afterwards Hungary was reconquered from the Turks ; Austria, under the Habsburgs, developed into a great power.
But in the Silesian Wars and in the Seven Years ' War she had to cede Silesia to Frederick II, the Great, of Prussia.
In Hesse-Kassel, the Landgrave Frederick II, ruled 1760 – 1785 as an enlightened despot, and raised money by renting soldiers ( called " Hessians ") to Great Britain to help fight the American Revolutionary War.
* 1640 – 1688: Frederick I / III William the Great Elector ( son of, also Elector of Brandenburg )
* Matter, Evelyn P. The Great House Rapp House Constructed 1826 and Frederick Rapp House Constructed about 1828 at Old Economy.
* 1757 – Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years ' War.
Frederick and 1712
His eldest surviving son was Frederick II ( Fritz ), born in 1712.
* 1712 – King Frederick II of Prussia ( d. 1786 )
* August 17 – King Frederick II of Prussia (" Frederick the Great ") ( b. 1712 )
* Frederick II of Prussia ( 1712 – 1786 ), King of Prussia, Frederick the Great
Frederick IV commanded the Danish troops at the battle of Gadebusch in 1712.
In 1703, he married Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg ( d. 1704 ), and the second time, Frederick carried off the 19 year-old Countess Anne Sophie Reventlow from her home in Clausholm near Randers on 26 June 1712 and secretly wed her at Skanderborg.
* August 17 – King Frederick II of Prussia, amateur composer ( b. 1712 )
Along with Frederick II of Prussia, ( January 24, 1712 – August 17, 1786 ), Chernyshov came upon the formerly allied Austrian forces of Field Marshal Daun near Burkersdorf.
In 1710 Leopold succeeded to the command of the entire Prussian contingent at the French front, and in 1712, he was made a field marshal at the particular request of the crown prince of Prussia, Frederick William, who had served with him as a volunteer.
1712 was a disappointing year in Norway, as Frederick IV directed Løvendal not to use the Norwegian Army in offensive actions, reserving it for defense and for supplementing Danish troops elsewhere.
In 1712 several lacemakers from Brabant accompanied the troops of King Frederick IV on their return from the Netherlands, bringing new techniques.
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* 1979 – Lord Frederick Windsor, British financial analyst
* 1943 – Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia ( d. 2011 )
* 1918 – Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.
* 1872 – Frederick Maurice, English theologian ( b. 1805 )
* 1872 – William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer ( b. 1843 )
* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )
* 1688 – Frederick William I of Prussia ( d. 1740 )
* 1760 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Liegnitz – Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
* 1596 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine, Bohemian king ( d. 1632 )
* 1883 – Pauline Frederick, American actress ( d. 1938 )
* 1557 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg ( d. 1608 )
* Frederick Albert ( 1529 – 1530 )
* Albert Frederick ( 1553 – 1618 )
* 1758 – Seven Years ' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
* 1916 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2003 )
* 1938 – Frederick Forsyth, English author
* 1805 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian ( d. 1872 )
* 1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English pilot ( d. 1918 )
* 1718 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-English military officer ( d. 1791 )
* 1944 – Frederick W. Smith, American businessman, founded FedEx
* 1329 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine ( b. 1282 )
She was a daughter of Frederick William of Nassau-Weilburg ( 1768 – 1816 ) and his wife Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg.
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