Literature and Science :
An Interdisciplinary Approach.
Enlightenment Timeline (1715-1789)
1687 Newton’s Principia is published
1694-1778 Voltaire lives
1699-1779 J.B.S. Chardin lives
1715 Louis XIV dies; Enlightenment era begins
1715-1774 Louis XV reigns as King of France
1726 Jonathon Swift publishes Gulliver’s Travels
1740–1786 Frederick the Great reigns as King of Prussia
1741–1828 J.A. Houdon lives
1751–1768 Diderot’s Encyclopedia is published
1756–1763 Seven Years’ War is fought
1756 W.A. Mozart is born
1759 Voltaire publishes Candide
1762 Rousseau publishes Social Contract
1769 Watt invents steam engine
1774–1792 Louis XVI reigns as King of France
1776 American Declaration of Independence is published
1776–1783 War of American Independence is fought
1789 French Revolution begins
1804 Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France