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102 matches to Seven Oaks Massacre
Paris, Treaties. 1229 Ends Albigensian Crusade. Louis gains Toulouse. 1327. England loses territory to France. 1763 Ends Seven Years War. Britain gets French holdings in Canada. Spain gets American territory. 1783 Ends American Revolution. US borders fixed. 1814 Ends Napoleonic Wars, restoring 1792 borders. Napoleon exiled to Elba. 1815 Ends Hundred Days. 1790 borders, reparations. Napoleon to St. Helena. 1856 Ends Crimean War. Black Sea neutral. Regulated Laws of High Seas. 1898 Ends Spanish American War. Spain cedes Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico to US. 1947. Settled European borders after WWII.
Pharos. 280BC-13C. Alexandria lighthouse. 135m high. Seven Wonders.
Phidias. c490-430BC. Greek sculptor. Parthenon frieze. 42 foot gold and ivory statue of Zeus at Olympia. 7 Wonders.
Pitt, William, the Elder. 1708-78. English statesman, Prime Minister 1756~68. Pursued Seven Years War. “The Great Commoner”.
Prague, Battle. 1757. Austria defeats Prussia in Seven Years War.
Pyramids. c2686-2160BC. Oldest of Seven Wonders.
Quebec, Battle. 1759. British defeat French in Seven Years War. 1775 Quebec Campaign.
Red River Colony. 1812 Selkirk. Wars vs Métis -1821. 1836 Hudson Bay Co. 1870 =Manitoba. Riel. Seven Oaks.
Rodney, George. 1718-92. British admiral. Seven Years War. American Revolution.
Seven Against Thebes. Legendary Greek heroes, fought to restore Thebes throne to Polynices.
Seven Bishops. 1688. Confined to Tower for opposing Declaration of Indulgence.
Seven Gods of Luck. Japanese. 16C-. Bishamon, Daikoku, Ebisu, Fukurokuju, Hotei, Jurojin, Benten.
Seven Hills of Rome. Palatine, Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, Aventine.
Seven Weeks War. 1866. Austro-Prussian War. Koniggratz.
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Pyramids 4700-2160BC. Mausolus Tomb 353BC. Artemis Temple at Ephesus c550BC. Hanging Gardens of Babylon 600BC. Colossus of Rhodes 280BC. Zeus Statue at Olympia 450BC. Lighthouse at Alexandria c282BC.
Seven Years War. 1756-63. France, Russia, Austria vs England, Prussia who retain Silesia, emerge as major power. French colonial power reduced. England gains New France, India. French-Indian Wars.
Seventeenth Parallel. 1954-76. Divided North/South Vietnam.
Thomson, Tom. 1877-1917. Canadian landscape painter. Influenced Group of Seven.
Vaucreuil, Cavagnal, Marquis de. 1698-1765. Governor of New France. Surrendered to Britain 1760. Seven Years War.
Vienna, Treaty. 1725. Spain, Austria pledge to aid Stuart restoration in England. 1738 Ends War of Polish Succession. 1809 =Schönbrunn Treaty. 1864 Denmark cedes Schleswig- Holstein to Prussia. 1866 Seven Weeks War. Austria cedes Venice to Italy.
Wolfe, James. 1727-59. British general. Captured Quebec in Seven Years War 1759.
Dunbarton Oaks Conference. 1944. UN organizational meeting. Yalta. San Francisco.
Abbaye Prison. Principal site of 1792 September Massacres.
Abd al-Mumin. 1094-1163. Founded Almohad Empire in north Africa and Spain. Massacred Almoravids.
Amboina Massacre. 1623. 20 British and Japanese merchants executed by Dutch for plotting overthrow.