Fritz chronology

[polymathy]

Wilhelmine born
Louis XV born
Fritz born
F1 dies
Louis XIV dies.
AW born
Heinrich born
1727: George I dies.
Dresden interlude
Escape attempt. Katte.
Kustrin. Meets Fredersdorf.
Wilhelmine marries.
Fritz gets regiment.
Fritz marries.
Fritz moves to Rheinsberg. Begins correspondence with Voltaire.
FW dies, Fritz becomes king. Invites a number of musicians, intellectuals, and artists to his court, including Algarotti, whom he makes a count. Meets Voltaire but does not offer him a job yet. Voltaire pays a brief visit to the Prussian court. Publishes Anti-Machiavel. HRE Charles VI dies, leaving Maria Theresia as heir to the kingdoms (thanks to the Pragmatic Sanction) and her husband Franz Stephan as the guy who's supposed to be elected HRE. Fritz invades Silesia. MT and FS' rule challenged, not recognized yet.
1741. Algarotti leaves. Joseph born.
1742: First Silesian War ends, leaving Fritz in control of most of Silesia.
1743: Voltaire visits Prussian court.
1744-1745: Second Silesian War. Fritz gets control of most of Silesia. 1744 Ulrike marries the Crown Prince and future King of Sweden. FW2 born. 1745 MT crowned, W has lunch.
1746-1747: Fritz builds Sanssouci. 1746 reconciliation with Wilhelmine.
1747: Algarotti's return to Prussia.
1748: War of the Austrian Succession ends with Pragmatic Sanction recognized.
1750: Voltaire joins the court.
1752: Heinrich forced to marry.
1753: Big explosion with Voltaire. Algarotti goes back to Italy.
1755: Incognito trip to Netherlands. Meets Catt, future reader for 25 years.
1756: Start of the Seven Years' War: Austria, Russia, France, and Sweden against Prussia and a loosely allied Great Britain.
1757: AW disgraced. SD dies. Fredersdorf retires.
1758: Fredersdorf dies. AW dies. Wilhelmine dies on the day of a major Prussian defeat (the battle of Hochkirch).
1760: George II dies.
1761: Elizabeth of Russia dies. Her nephew Peter III inherits.
1762: Peter III switches sides. Coup in June. His wife Catherine the Great inherits.
1763: War ends, Fritz in control of Silesia.
1764: Algarotti dies.
1765: Franz Stephan dies, Joseph II becomes HRE.
1772: First Partition of Poland.
1774: Louis XV dies.
1778: Voltaire dies.
1778 - 1779: War of the Bavarian Succession.
1780: Maria Theresa dies.
1786: Fritz dies.


All the Keith stuff. Lehndorff. Suhm. All the Algarotti stuff. Lady Mary. Emilie. The 1740 trip. Herstall. Katte family. Emotional isolation (inc Maria Antonia). Deaths of dogs. Battles. Heinrich trips. Fallings out between Heinrich and Fritz. Marwitz. Darget. People leaving Fritz. Wilhelmine memoirs. Falling out between W and Fritz. Writing of Anti-Machiavel. Trip to Netherlands. Trenck. Glasow. Quantz? Amalia's death. Amalia abbess of Quedlinburg. Bayreuth reverts. Wilhelmine's schloss burns down. Building of opera house? Fritz's German pamphlet. Joseph's marriages. Isabelle of Parma. Marriage of Marie Antoinette. Birth of kids. Births and deaths of English cousins. Dates of double marriage plans? Barbarina. Schmeling. Wusterhausen reunion. Heinrich's boyfriends? Voltaire (la Pucelle). Tiergarten. Neues Palais. Neue kammern Sanssouci. Antikentempel. Temple of Friendship. Keith's residence. Antinous statue. Orgasm poem. Visits to Bayreuth. Fritz's remains. Rokoko Dallas in Sweden. Undercover visit of Joseph to Paris. Fredersdorf's marriage. Fredersdorf's retirement. Wilhelmine's travel to Italy. Fritz and FS meet? Pollnitz memoirs. Thiebault. Voltaire memoirs. Voltaire anti-Fritz pamphlet. Palladion. Pucelle? Seckendorff. Grumbkow. Coup in Sweden. Countess Bentinck. Pollnitz goes to Bayreuth. Fritz writes military history works, memoirs, etc. Antinous statue. Kaphengst.


Publication of Fritz's memoirs of the house of Brandenburg.
When does Fritz give the order to ditch Kaphengst.
When does Heinrich ditch Kaphengst.
Netherlands trip.
Glasow imprisonment.
Trenck imprisonment.
Trenck escape.
Trenck recapture.
What was Trenck into in between.
Trenck release.
Trenck afterward (inc. memoirs).
Trenck death.
Heinrich Paris trips.
Heinrich in St. Petersburg.
Finnish sex machine.
Partition.
Bavarian Succession.
Coup in Sweden.
Fritz instructions to his generals.
Fritz Palladion.
Darget visits France.
Darget Valori capture event.
Soor.
Hohenfriedberg.
MT/FS crowned.
Joseph crowned.
FS death.
MT Wilhelmine lunch.
Peter III visits Berlin.
Katte grand tour.
Katte in Paris, Madrid, London.
Fritz with Eugene, Voltaire on other side.
Voltaire in England.
Fire submission academy.
Newtonianism for women.
Emilie Newton translation.
Candide.
Pucelle.
Keyserlingk visit Cirey.
Algarotti in Cirey.
Lady Mary travels.
Pollnitz in Bayreuth.
Opera house.
Bentinck in Berlin.
Bentinck's other events?
Grumbkow dies.
Seckendorff joins Berlin.
Seckendorff leaves Berlin, imprisoned.
Seckendorff released.
Seckendorff captured.
Seckendorff traded.
Seckendorff dies.
Voltaire dies.
Emilie dies.
Voltaire joins court.
Hirschel affair.
Anti-Fritz pamphlet.
Voltaire memoirs.
Catt memoirs.
Catt disgrace.
Catt death.
Thiebault joins.
Thiebault leaves.
Thiebault memoirs.
Meeting of Fritz and FS.
FS salmon.
Expulsion of Jesuits.
Antinous statue turns up.
Named Antinous.
Owned by Eugene.
Arms added.
Fritz's first acquisition attempt.
Fritz acquires.
Moved to FW2.
Captured by Napoleon.
Renamed Ganymede.
Renamed Praying Boy.
Trenck born.
Other Trenck born.
Trenck becomes batman.
Trenck imprisoned.
Trenck escapes.
Trenck does stuff.
Trenck recaptured.
Trenck released.
Trenck dies.
Other Trenck dies.

Dresden visit: Jan 14 - Feb 12 1728