Timeline: 18th Century Europe/North
America
1700-24
1725-49
1750-74
1775-99
1710: Berkeley- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
1714: Leibniz - Monadology
1725: Vico - The New Science
1739: Hume - A Treatise of Human Nature
1748: Montesquieu - The Spirit of the Laws
1751: Diderot - Encyclopedie
1755: Rousseau - Discourse on Inequality
1764: Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary1781: Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
1789: Bentham - Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
1794: Fichte - Wissenschaftslehre
<----------------------Baroque-------------------------|------------------------Classic------------------------->
<---------------------J. S. Bach-------------------------|
<-----------------------Handel------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------Haydn----------------------------------->
|-------------------Mozart-------------------|
|---------Beethoven--------->
<------------------------Hogarth---------------------------|
|-----------------------------Goya-------------------------->
|----------------------------David------------------------->
|---------------------- Blake-------------------->
|------Constable---->
1700: Congreve - The Way of the World
1722: Defoe - Moll Flanders1726: Swift - Gulliver's Travels
1732: Pope - Essay on Man
1749: Fielding - Tom Jones1759: Voltaire - Candide
1761: Rousseau - Hêloïse
1774: Goethe - Sorrows of Young Werther
1785: Schiller - Ode to Joy
1789: Blake - Songs of Innocence
1791: Sade - Justine
1798: Wordsworth & Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads
1758: Quesnay - Tableau economique
1762: Rousseau - The Social Contract
1764: Beccaria - Essay on Crimes & Punishments
1765-69: Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England
1766: Turgot - Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth1776: Gibbon - Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire (Vol. 1)
1776: Smith - The Wealth of Nations
1790: Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France
1791: Paine - The Rights of Man
1792: Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Women
1793: Godwin - Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
1798: Malthus - Essay on the Principle of Population
1704: Newton - Optics
1709: Coke used to produce iron
1720: Montagu - introduces early technique of immunization1733: Kay invents the flying shuttle
1735: Linnaeus - Systema naturae
1748: First blast furnace built
1749: Buffon - Histoire naturelle1751: Franklin - New Experiments and Observations on Electricity
1764: Hargreaves invents spinning jenny
1766: Cavendish isolates hydrogen
1769: Watt patents improved steam engine
1774: Priestley discovers oxygen1780: Galvani - observes connection between electricity and muscle movement
1783: 1st manned flight of hot air balloon
1785: Hutton - Theory of Earth
1789: Lavoisier - Elements of Chemistry
1796: Jenner develops smallpox vaccine
<-------------Various Wars------------->
<---------Six million slaves traded------------>
|----------------Enclosures intensify------------------>
|-1st Industrial Cycle ->
(textiles)
1702: 1st daily newspaper (London)
1709: 1st Copyright Act (Britain)
1712: Last execution in Britain for witchcraft
1723: Workhouses begin in Britain1732: Oglethorpe founds Georgia for "poor debtors"
1755: Lisbon earthquake
1768: Cook's voyages to the Pacific
1773: Pugachev leads peasant uprising1775: American Revolution
1788: 1st convicts sent to Australia from Britain
1789: French Revolution
1791: Bill of Rights ratified in U.S.
1792: Denmark prohibits slave trade
1799: Start of Napoleonic Wars
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