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Frederick the Great was Born on January 24, 1712. His father was Frederick William I and his mother was Princess Sophia-Dorothea.
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Frederick the Great started Reign on May 31, 1740 because of the death of his Father, Frederick William I. He sought to embody teh Platonic ideal of the Philisophical-King
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Frederick the Great took over Selesia
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In 1760, Austro-Russian forces occupied Berlin, and Frederick, reduced to despair, considered suicide
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The first, in Europe, was the hostility between Prussia and Austria. Frederick, who had used the years of peace to build and train an army of 154,000, launched a preemptive attack on Austria’s ally Saxony in 1756.
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Peace was made by the treaty of St. Petersburg (5 May 1762). Frederick was now free to concentrate on Austria, winning victories at Burkersdorf (21 July 1762) and Reichenback (16 August 1762), after which he was able to regain all of his lost territory. Peace was finally made by the Treaty of Hubertusberg (15 February 1763), which confirmed Prussia's control of Silesia and left Prussia dominant in Germany
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The Seven Years’ War came to a formal end in 1763 and Frederick resumed his domestic programs, reorganizing the Prussian government into separate ministries to allow rational division of tasks and easy executive control.
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As Frederick aged his Enlightenment values increasingly mixed with cynicism and suspicion, then died on August 17, 1786.
