The Enlightenment (TRIH ep 86)
1730 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the Enlightenment: its dates, key figures, geographic variations and cultural consequences. They debate whether the Enlightenment represented a decisive break from Christianity or a mutation within Christian Europe, and situate it in the late 17th to 18th centuries (c. 1660 onward), citing Spinoza, Newton, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau and others.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1730
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)