London’s Golden Age: The Mad Life of Dr Johnson (TRIH eps 650-653)
1755–1784 · Resource
A four-part series on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell: their friendship, Boswell's early London career and Grand Tour, their 1773 journey to the Hebrides, and Johnson's relationship with the Thrale family.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1755
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)