…a number of people or things sharing a specified characteristic and following one after the other…
…(in English history) each of three Acts of Parliament passed during the reign of Henry VIII regarding the succession of his children…
…a number of people or things sharing a specified characteristic and following one after the other…
…(in Christian thought) the uninterrupted transmission of spiritual authority from the Apostles through successive popes and bishops, taught by the Roman Catholic Church but denied by most Protestants…
…a group of several related conflicts (1740–48), involving most of the states of Europe, that were triggered by the death of the Emperor Charles VI and the accession of his daughter Maria Theresa in 1740 to the Austrian throne…
…a European war (1701–14), provoked by the death of the Spanish king Charles II without issue. The Grand Alliance of Britain, the Netherlands, and the Holy Roman Emperor threw back a French invasion of the Low Countries and prevented Spain and France from being united under one crown…
