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Philip V kept Spain and its American empire but renounced the French throne; Britain gained Gibraltar, Minorca and North American territory, and Austria received most of Spain's European lands.
Britain won a 30-year monopoly on supplying enslaved Africans to Spanish America, run by the South Sea Company until it was surrendered in 1750.
Castiglione spent five decades as a court painter, creating a hybrid Sino-European style and helping design the European palaces of the Yuanmingyuan.
The rising collapsed after the drawn Battle of Sheriffmuir and the Jacobite surrender at Preston; James left Scotland in February 1716 and leading rebels were executed or exiled.
Austria gained Belgrade, the Banat of Temesvár and Lesser Wallachia, Venice lost the Morea, and a period of peace began in the Ottoman capital.
A period of relative peace and courtly cultural activity in Istanbul that ended with the Patrona Halil revolt of 1730.
La Nouvelle-Orléans was established on a bend of the Mississippi and became the capital of French Louisiana in 1722–1723.
Blackbeard and several of his crew were killed by a Royal Navy boarding party under Lieutenant Robert Maynard; most survivors were later hanged in Virginia.
Bubonic plague killed an estimated 40,000-50,000 people in Marseille and about 90,000-120,000 across Provence before dying out in 1722.
South Sea shares collapsed in autumn 1720, ruining many investors; a parliamentary inquiry punished directors and ministers and brought Robert Walpole to power.
Inoculation, or variolation, was adopted by the British royal family and spread across Britain and Europe, reducing smallpox deaths until vaccination replaced it.
Fahrenheit's accurate mercury thermometers and scale became a standard in Britain and its colonies, while the centigrade scale of Celsius later became the international norm.
