War of the Spanish Succession
Europe fights over the last Spanish Habsburg's legacy
Charles II of Spain died childless, leaving his crown to Louis XIV's grandson Philip of Anjou, and England, the Dutch Republic and Austria went to war against France and Spain. The peaces of Utrecht and Rastatt (1713–1714) kept Philip V on the Spanish throne but gave Austria the Spanish Netherlands and Italian lands, and Britain Gibraltar.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great — 19 years earlier
- 1700–1721 Great Northern War — 1 year earlier
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg — 2 years later
- 1709 Battle of Poltava — 8 years later
- 1721 Proclamation of the Russian Empire — 20 years later
Middle East
- 1722 Fall of Isfahan — 21 years later
Asia
- 1707 Death of Aurangzeb — 6 years later
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 63)
- Isaac Newton (aged 58)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 47)
- Peter the Great (aged 29)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 16)
- Voltaire (aged 7)
- Aurangzeb (aged 83)
- John Locke (aged 69)
- Leopold I (aged 61)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 55)