World Events
- The Enlightenment (Age of Reason)
- Mannheim School
- French-Indian Wars in America
- 7 Years' War (1756-1763)
- 1760 - Industrial Revolution begins
- 1769 - Watt's steam engine patented
- 1771 - first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica
- American Revolution (1775-1783)
- 1775 - electric battery invented by Volta
- 1776 - American Declaration of independence
- 1787 - French Revolution
- 1787 - Edict of Toleration (France)
- 1788 - steamboat invented by John Fitch
- 1789 - George Washington elected first President of the United
States of America
- 1791 - American Bill of Rights
- 1796 - first vaccination
- 1799 - Great Revival in America
- 1803 - Louisiana Purchase
- 1804 - Napoleon crowned Emperor
- War of 1812
- 1819 - first steamship crosses the Atlantic
- 1821 - electric motor and generator invented by Faraday
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Literary Figures
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Artists
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Philosophers
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Scientific Achievements
- Discoveries
- oxygen
- hydrogen
- electromagnetic induction
- ultraviolet rays
- Development of the first vaccine
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Inventions
- Steam engine
- Spinning jenny
- Cotton gin
- Electric motors
- Generators
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Classical
Music
Musical
Characteristics | Genre
and Forms | Theorists,
Treatises and Collections
Composers
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