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Date of Birth
Frederick The grate in Berlin to Frederick William I and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover. His parents. -
Send to Military training
When the young Frederick showed talents for music and languages, his father prescribed military training. At age 18 Frederick attempted to escape to England -
Year he got married
In 1733 he married Elizabeth of Brunswick-Bevern in a purely political union.Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern was Queen of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 She was also the longest serving queen of Prussia -
Philosophical refutation of Machiavelli
In 1739 Frederick published a philosophical refutation of Machiavelli, unaware he crated achievements of Machiavelli and similarities they have,then it was known as " The Prince" -
THE WAR OF AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION
Frederick II took the throne on May 31, 1740, and immediately launched an unprovoked attack on the Austrian region of Silesia (in what is now southwestern Poland) This war took 8 years, Frederick took an army of 140,000 men. War ends in the year 1748. -
SEVEN YEARS’ WAR
In 1756 Europe’s longstanding alliances reshuffled during the so-called Diplomatic Revolution, which saw Austria allied with France and Russia as Prussia sided with England. 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. -
SEVEN YEAR WAR ENDS
The Seven Years’ War came to an 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 -
Frederick Died.
He died on August 17, 1786, at Sansssouci, his beloved Rococo palace at Potsdam outside Berlin. (Germany)
