Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther
1774* · Work
Romantic epistolary novel that triggered a Europe-wide craze.
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- The Reformation (1517)
- German unification (1871)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Around 1774
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- French Revolution (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)