Voltaire imprisoned in the Bastille
1717 · Event
Jailed for eleven months over verses mocking the Regent, the young François-Marie Arouet writes his tragedy Oedipe and emerges as 'Voltaire'.
On these timelines: The Enlightenment, France, Master
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- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
- Kant's 'What is Enlightenment?' (1784)
- Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)
- Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (1755)
- Voltaire's Treatise on Tolerance (1763)
- The Paris salons (1720)
- Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (1764)
Around 1717
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- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)