Timeline
Political:
1740-1748 War of Austrian Succession (Ends with the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle)
1740-1790 Age of Enlightened Absolutism
1756-1763 Seven Years’ War
(r. 1762-1796) Catherine the Great in Russia
1772-1795: The Partitions of Poland
Economic:
1565: Royal Exchange (London)
1584-1603: Time of Troubles Russia
1650-1750: Mercantilism
1700s: Laissez-faire economics
Religious:
1690-1740: Deism became more common
1750-1790: Wesley preaches revival in England
Social:
1662: Royal Society of London was founded
1720-1789: Growth of European population
1721: Last Bubonic Plague outbreak in Europe
1740-1780: Salons (led by women)
1750–1850: Illegitimacy explosion
1763: Smallpox vaccination (Jenner)
1807: Slave trade abolished in Britain
Intellectual:
1543: Copernicus’s heliocentric theory
1543-1687: Scientific Revolution
1610: Galileo’s Starry Night
1637: Descartes’ Discourse on Method
1651: Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan
1687: Newton’s Principia Mathematica
1690: Lockes Second Treatise on Government & Essay On Human Understanding
1720s-1789: Enlightenment
1751: Diderots Encyclopedia
1762: Rousseau’s Emile and Social Contract
1770s-1880s: Haskalah (Moses Mendelssohn)
1776: Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
Art:
1550s-1720s: Baroque Art
1560s-1600: Mannerist Art
1720s-1760s: Rococo Art
Political:
1740-1748 War of Austrian Succession (Ends with the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle)
1740-1790 Age of Enlightened Absolutism
1756-1763 Seven Years’ War
(r. 1762-1796) Catherine the Great in Russia
1772-1795: The Partitions of Poland
Economic:
1565: Royal Exchange (London)
1584-1603: Time of Troubles Russia
1650-1750: Mercantilism
1700s: Laissez-faire economics
Religious:
1690-1740: Deism became more common
1750-1790: Wesley preaches revival in England
Social:
1662: Royal Society of London was founded
1720-1789: Growth of European population
1721: Last Bubonic Plague outbreak in Europe
1740-1780: Salons (led by women)
1750–1850: Illegitimacy explosion
1763: Smallpox vaccination (Jenner)
1807: Slave trade abolished in Britain
Intellectual:
1543: Copernicus’s heliocentric theory
1543-1687: Scientific Revolution
1610: Galileo’s Starry Night
1637: Descartes’ Discourse on Method
1651: Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan
1687: Newton’s Principia Mathematica
1690: Lockes Second Treatise on Government & Essay On Human Understanding
1720s-1789: Enlightenment
1751: Diderots Encyclopedia
1762: Rousseau’s Emile and Social Contract
1770s-1880s: Haskalah (Moses Mendelssohn)
1776: Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
Art:
1550s-1720s: Baroque Art
1560s-1600: Mannerist Art
1720s-1760s: Rococo Art