Age of Enlightenment
1685–1815 · Event
Intellectual movement championing reason, individualism, scepticism toward authority; from Locke through Kant; underpins American and French Revolutions.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master, France, USA
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
Around 1685
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)