The Restoration and Enlightenment 1660-1798 Austin Martin and Brad Wilknson
Feb 08, 2016
The Restoration and
Enlightenment 1660-1798Austin Martin and Brad Wilknson
1660-1700 1660-Sam Pepys begins
diary
1661-Louis XIV begins palace at Versailles
1665-Great Plauge
1666-Great Fire of London
1668-John Dryden 1st official poet laureate
1685-Begin reign of James II
1687-Newton publishes gravity
1689-English Bill of Rights
1695-End of prepublication censorship
1699-End of Turkish presence in Austria
1700-1750 1702-Begin reign of
Anne Stuart
1703-Peter began building St. Petersburg
1707-England and Scotland become Great Britian
1707-Mughal empire becomes independent states
1709-Richard Steele begins periodical, The Tatler
1711- Addison and Steele begin The Spectator
1714-Begin reign of George I
1719-Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Cruesoe, considered 1st novel in English
1721-Edo Tokyo becomes largest city
1721-Robert Walpole becomes 1st political prime minister
1722-Saffavid Empire collapses
1722-Defoe publishes A Journal of the Plague Year
1726-Johnathan Swift anonymously delivers Gilliver’s Travels
1727-Reign of George II begins 1736-Qian-long becomes emperor of China
leading to prosperity 1740-Samuel Richardson publishes Pamela
– first English novel 1740-Maria Theresa becomes queen of
Austria, Bohemia, and Hungary 1746-Samuel Johnson signs contract
preparing A Dictionary of the English Language
1750-1798 1756-Fredrick the Great starts Seven Years
War 1757-