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| 1716 |
| | | The Habsburg emperor Charles VI has a son, but the child dies within the year | |
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| 1718 |
| | | The tsarevitch Alexis, heir to Peter the Great, dies from violence inflicted on him in prison | |
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| 1721 |
| | | In a ceremony in St Petersburg's cathedral Peter the Great has himself proclaimed 'emperor of all Russia' | |
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| 1725 |
| | | The Russian tsar Peter the Great dies and is succeeded by his wife as the empress Catherine I | |
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| 1727 |
| | | On the death of his father, George I, George II becomes king of Great Britain | |
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| 1727 |
| | | Handel composes Zadok the Priest for the crowning of George II, and it has been sung at every subsequent British coronation | |
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| 1733 |
| | | An alliance between the French and Spanish Bourbons is the first of what become known as the Family Compacts | |
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| 1736 |
| | | The leader of a gang of tribal brigands seizes the Persian throne and takes the name Nadir Shah | |
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| 1737 |
| | | Florence loses her independence when the last Medici duke of Tuscany dies | |
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| 1738 |
| | | In the Treaty of Vienna, France accepts the Pragmatic Sanction of Charles VI – the last of the European powers to do so | |
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