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