1735 Don Charles crosses to Italy. The island surrenders to him and he is crowned as Charles VII.
1738 The war is settled by the Treaty of Vienna. Charles VII acknowledged king of the Two Sicilies and gives up his claim to Tuscany and to Parma.
1740 Charles joins the alliance against Maria Theresa in the struggle for the Austrian succession.
1743-1748 The Two Sicilies compelled to remain neutral in the war of the Austrian Succession by the presence of a British fleet.
1759 Charles inherits the throne of Spain and resigns the Two Sicilies to his young son Ferdinand IV.
1767 The Jesuits are expelled from the kingdom.
1782 The Inquisition is abolished.
1796 Ferdinand makes a treaty of peace with the French Republic.
1798 The French army invades Neapolitan territory.
1799 Surrender of Naples. Ferdinand flees to Sicily. Naples is formed into the Parthenopæan Republic by the French. The English fleet under Nelson appears and assists a Calabrian army under Cardinal Ruffo to regain Naples and restore Ferdinand. Ruffo works a barbarous vengeance on the republicans.