The Ancien Régime
- Act of Union 1707
- Adam Mickiewicz
- Afonso VI of Portugal
- Anne of Great Britain
- Battle of Blenheim
- Battle of Poltava
- Cardinal Jules Mazarin
- Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great)
- Catherine the Great Seizes Power
- Charles Edward Stuart
- Charles I of England
- Charles II of England
- Charles II of Spain
- Charles VI of Habsburg
- Charles VII of Bavaria (Charles Albert)
- Charles XII of Sweden
- Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
- Colbert's Mercantilism
- Constitution of 3 May 1791
- Constitutional Act Divides Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada
- Court Moves to Versailles
- Death of Louis XIV
- Death of Louis XV
- Denis Diderot
- Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
- First Partition of Poland
- Francis I Stephen of Lorraine
- Frederick II of Prussia
- Frederick the Great Inherits Prussia
- George I
- George I of Great Britain
- George II
- Ghilzai Revolt and Fall of Isfahan
- Great Northern War
- Highland Clearances — Depopulation of the Scottish Highlands
- Jacques Bossuet
- James II of England
- James Watt
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert
- Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
- John III Sobieski
- John Law
- John Law's Mississippi Bubble
- Joseph I of Habsburg
- Joseph II Habsburg Reforms
- Joseph II of Austria
- José I of Portugal
- João IV of Portugal
- João V of Portugal
- Kara Mustafa Pasha
- Kyoho Famine and the Hyakusho Ikki Peasant Uprisings
- Leopold I of Habsburg
- Lord Mansfield (William Murray)
- Louis XIII of France
- Louis XIV
- Louis XIV Assumes Personal Rule
- Louis XV of France
- Louis XVI of France
- Maria I of Portugal
- Mary II
- Matthew Boulton
- Montesquieu Publishes De l'esprit des lois
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
- Muhammad ibn Saud
- Necker's Compte Rendu au Roi
- Newton's Principia Mathematica — Law of Universal Gravitation
- Nine Years' War (War of the League of Augsburg)
- Olaudah Equiano
- Oliver Cromwell
- Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle — End of the War of Austrian Succession
- Peace of Nystad — Russia Proclaimed an Empire
- Pedro II of Portugal
- Peter I of Russia (Peter the Great)
- Peter the Great's Grand Embassy and Westernisation of Russia
- Philip IV of Spain
- Philip V of Spain
- Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
- Pope John Paul I
- Pragmatic Sanction — Habsburg Succession Law
- Publication of the Encyclopédie (1751–1772)
- Pugachev Rebellion
- Queen Anne of Great Britain
- Regency of Philippe d'Orléans
- Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
- Robert Walpole
- Robert Walpole — First Prime Minister
- Rousseau Publishes Du Contrat Social
- Siege of Vienna
- Sir William Temple
- Somerset Case — Slavery and English Law
- Stanislaw August Poniatowski
- The Diamond Necklace Affair
- The Diplomatic Revolution
- The Glorious Revolution
- The Irish Penal Laws
- The Jacobite Rising of 1715 — The Fifteen
- The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and Battle of Culloden
- The November Uprising and the Great Emigration
- The Second and Third Partitions of Poland
- The South Sea Bubble
- Thomas More
- Treaty of Utrecht
- Turgot's Six Edicts and Reform Programme
- War of the Austrian Succession
- War of the Spanish Succession
- Watt's Steam Engine
- William III
- William III of Orange
- Yemelyan Pugachev