The Enlightenment
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Key events on this timeline
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Isaac Newton (1643)
- Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751)
- Voltaire (1694)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Immanuel Kant (1724)
- John Locke (1632)
- Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712)
- Rousseau's The Social Contract (1762)
- Locke's Two Treatises of Government (1689)
- Adam Smith (1723)
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
- Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
- Founding of the Royal Society of London (1660)
- David Hume (1711)
- Voltaire's Candide (1759)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)
- Denis Diderot (1713)
- Benjamin Franklin (1706)
- Kant's 'What is Enlightenment?' (1784)
- Scottish Enlightenment (1730)
- Charles-Louis de Montesquieu (1689)
- Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws (1748)
- Newton's Opticks (1704)
- Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)
- Spinoza's Ethics (1677)
- Hobbes's Leviathan (1651)