Voltaire at the court of Frederick the Great
1750–1753 · Event
Voltaire becomes chamberlain to the philosopher-king at Potsdam; within three years the friendship sours into quarrels and a humiliating arrest at Frankfurt.
On these timelines: The Enlightenment, Master, Germany, France
More from The Enlightenment
- 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 1750
- 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)