1758. Expulsion of the French from Hanover, by Ferdinand of Brunswick. Frederick defeats the Russians at Zorndorf; Daun defeats him at Hochkirchen.
Arcot, India, taken by the French, who then besiege Madras.
Battle of Ticonderoga; victory of Montcalm over Abercrombie, July 8. Louisburg reduced and occupied by Amherst and Boscawen; loss to the French of forts Frontenac and Duquesne.
The French fleet is driven out of the Indian seas by the English admiral, Peacocke.
1759. Battle of Minden; defeat of the French by Ferdinand of Brunswick. Kunersdorf: overwhelming defeat of Frederick the Great by the Austrians and Russians. Boscawen, the English Admiral, defeats the French off Lagos; Admiral Hawke gains a naval victory over them, under Conflans, in Quiberon Bay. Fink, the Prussian General, surrenders at Maxen. Havre de Grace bombarded by Rodney, the British Admiral.
Quebec captured by the British under Wolfe. See "Conquest of Canada," [xiii], [229].
Opening of the British Museum.
Expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal by King John.
Guadelupe taken from the French by the English.