War of Spanish Succession
Peace of Utrecht
Frederick William I of Prussia
Louis XV
- Great-grandson of Louis XV
- Absolutism reversed = Duke of Orleans = parlements could evaluate royal decrees
- War of Austrian Succession & Seven Years' War = $ problems = failed tax proposal
- Madame de Pompadour = bourgeois mistress = Voltaire, rococo, Austria = desacralization
Maria Theresa of Austria
- Absolutist
- Son = Joseph II = Enlightened Absolutist
- War of Austrian Succession = limited pope's influence, strengthened central bureaucracy/revamped tax system, improved agricultural population
Frederick the Great of Prussia
Seven Years' War
Partition of Poland
Catherine the Great
- German empress of Russia
- Enlightened Absolutist = westernized, new law codes, expanded territory
French Revolution
- Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette = Estates General = Tennis Court Oath = National Assembly = Declaration of the Rights of Man
- Storming of the Bastille, March on Versailles
- Great Fear
- Jacobins vs. Girondans vs. Sans-Culottes = Reign of Terror = Robespierre = dechristianization = Thermidorian Reaction
- Napoleon
American Revolution
- Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Jefferson
- Checks & Balances
- Federal System
- U.S. Bill of Rights
- George Washington
- King George III
Slave insurrection in Saint-Domingue
Government
Foundation of St. Petersburg
Last appearance of Bubonic Plague in Western Europe
Growth of European population
Growth of illegitimate births in Western Europe
Industrial Revolution
- Began in GB
- Causes: Agricultural Revolution, Enclosure Movement, Urban Migration, Technology
- Cottage Industry leads to Factory System: factors of production, entrepeneur, assembly line
- Technology: flying shuttle, steam engine, waterframe, spinning jenny, cotton gin, telegraph, steal
Serfdom abolished in France
Society & Letters
Fourier
Papacy dissolves Jesuits
Rousseau,
The Social Contract
Hume, The Natural History of Religion
Smith,
Wealth of Nations
Kant, What is Enlightenment
- German
- Against skepticism, for reason
Malthus
Wollstonecraft,
Vindication of the Rights of Women
Reorganization of church in France
Religion & Philosophy
Steam Engine
Crop Rotation
Water Frame
Spinning Jenny
Steam Engine
Jenner
Science & Technology
Encyclopedia
Classical Style
Romanticism
Arts & Letters
- GB vs. France & Spain
- France lost Canada & Louisiana but retained West Indies
- AKA French & Indian War
- Louis XIV's grandson = king of Spain
- Exchange = land & no dual monarchy
- Russia, Prussia, Austria divided = no sovereignty
- Conflict involving Louis XIV's grandson & the kingdom of Spain
- Soldiers' King = conscription
- Absolutist = strong bureaucracy * social order
- Enlightened Absolutist
- "Servant of the State" = religious & educational reform
1800
1750
1725
1700
1775
Enclosure Movement in England
1800
1750
1725
1700
1775
- Essay on the Principle of Population
- Population growth = bad
- Against Poor Laws = if raise wages, people will have more children, use more resources, then same problems will exist
Monstesquieu, The Spirit of Laws
Separation of power = checks & balances
Wesley
18th Century
1800
1750
1725
1700
1775
promotes industrial breakthroughs
1800
1750
1725
1700
1775
Wordsworth
1800
1750
1725
1700
1775