The War of the Polish Succession was fought after the death of Augustus II of Poland, when the Polish nobility elected Stanislaw Leszczynski, supported by France and the father-in-law of Louis XV, while Russia and Austria backed Augustus III, the son of the late king. Russian troops entered Poland and secured the throne for Augustus. France, Spain and Sardinia then used the dispute to attack Austrian possessions in Italy and along the Rhine. The peace preliminaries led to the Treaty of Vienna, under which Stanislaw gave up his claim and received the duchy of Lorraine, and Naples and Sicily passed to a Spanish Bourbon prince.
Before and after
- 1732Trevi Fountain
- 22 February 1732Birth of George Washington
- 31 March 1732Birth of Joseph Haydn
- 13 March 1733Birth of Joseph Priestley
- from 10 October 1733 to 3 October 1735War of the Polish Succession
- 1734Founding of University of Göttingen
- 1735Discovery of cobalt
- 1735Euler solves the Konigsberg bridge problem and founds graph theory
- 1735Linnaeus publishes Systema Naturae
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- from March 1701 to September 1714War of the Spanish Succession
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