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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

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