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. Topics include coffeehouses, Freemasonry, science as a worldview, the republic of letters, the Scotti...
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Around 1730
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)