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As a means of recording the passage of time , the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800 in the Gregorian calendar .
History scholars sometimes specifically define the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715 -1789 , denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution ,[1] [2] while the "long" eighteenth century may run from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the battle of Waterloo in 1815 [3] or even later.[4]
Contents
1 Events
1.1 1700s
1.2 1710s
1.3 1720s
1.4 1730s
1.5 1740s
1.6 1750s
1.7 1760s
1.8 1770s
1.9 1780s
1.10 1790s
2 Significant people
3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions
4 References
5 Decades and years
Events
Significant people
Maria Gaetana Agnesi , Italian mathematician[5]
Ahmad Shah Abdali , Afghan King
Ueda Akinari , Japanese writer
Jean le Rond d'Alembert , French mathematician, physicist and encyclopedist
Queen Anne , British monarch
Aurangzeb , Mughal Emperor
Johann Sebastian Bach , German composer
Laura Bassi , Italian scientist, the first European female college teacher[5]
George Berkeley , Irish empiricist philosopher
Pierre Beaumarchais , French writer
Jeremy Bentham , English philosopher and reformer
Daniel Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician and physicist
William Blake , English artist and poet
François Boucher , French painter
Edmund Burke , British statesman and philosopher
Robert Burns , Scottish poet
Giacomo Casanova , Venetian adventurer, writer and womanizer
Catherine the Great , Russian Tsaritsa
Cao Xueqin , Chinese writer
Alexis Clairault , French mathematician
James Cook , British navigator
François Couperin , French composer
Denis Diderot , French writer and philosopher
Eugenio Espejo , Ecuadorian scientist
Leonhard Euler , Swiss mathematician
Jean-Honoré Fragonard , French painter
Benjamin Franklin , American scientist and statesman
Frederick the Great , Prussian monarch
Thomas Gainsborough , English painter
Carl Friedrich Gauss , German mathematician, physicist and astronomer
King George III , British monarch
Christoph Willibald Gluck , German composer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German writer
Francesco Geminiani , Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist.
George Frideric Handel , German-English composer
Alexander Hamilton , American statesman
Joseph Haydn , Austrian composer
Eliza Haywood , English writer
William Hogarth , English painter and engraver
David Hume , Scottish philosopher
Thomas Jefferson , American statesman
Edward Jenner , English inventor of vaccination
Jiang Tingxi , Chinese artist and scholar
Samuel Johnson , British writer and literary critic
Joseph II , Austrian Emperor
Kangxi Emperor , China
Immanuel Kant , German philosopher
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , French writer
Joseph Louis Lagrange , Italian-French mathematician and physicist
Pierre Simon Laplace , French physicist and mathematician
John Law , Scottish economist
Mikhail Lomonosov , Russian scientist
Antoine Lavoisier , French chemist
Adrien-Marie Legendre , French mathematician
Alphonsus Liguori , Italian bishop, founder of Redemptorists, Saint
Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné ), Swedish biologist
Louis XV of France , French monarch
Louis XVI of France , French monarch
James Madison , American statesman
Maria Theresa of Austria , Austrian Empress
Marie Antoinette , Austrian-born French Queen
Michikinikwa , Miami tribe chief and war leader
Honoré Mirabeau French writer and politician
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu , French thinker
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Austrian composer
Nadir Shah , Persian King
Thomas Paine , British intellectual
Peter I of Russia (Peter the Great ), Russian Tsar
Pius VI , Roman Pope
François-André Danican Philidor , French composer and chess master
Marquis of Pombal , Portuguese Prime Minister
Alexander Pope , British poet
Qianlong Emperor , China
Francis II Rákóczi , prince of Hungary and Transylvania, Revolutionary leader
Jean-Philippe Rameau , French composer
Bartolomeo Rastrelli , Italian-born Russian architect
Sir Joshua Reynolds , British painter
Maximilien Robespierre , French revolutionary leader and dictator
Jean-Jacques Rousseau , French writer and philosopher
Marquis de Sade , French writer and philosopher
Domenico Scarlatti , Italian composer.
Friedrich Schiller , German writer
John Small , English cricketer
Adam Smith , Scottish economist and philosopher
Laurence Sterne , British writer
Edward "Lumpy" Stevens , English cricketer
Alexander Suvorov , Russian military leader
Emanuel Swedenborg , Swedish scientist, thinker and mystic
Jonathan Swift , Anglo-Irish satirist
Toussaint L'Ouverture , Haitian revolutionary leader
Túpac Amaru II , Peruvian revolutionary
Kitagawa Utamaro , Japanese printmaker and painter
Antonio Vivaldi , Italian composer
Voltaire , French writer and philosopher
Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab , Arab islamic theologian and founder of Wahhabism
Robert Walpole , British Prime Minister
George Washington , American general and first President of USA
James Watt , Scottish scientist and inventor
Antoine Watteau , French painter
John Wesley , British churchman, founder of Methodism
Mary Wollstonecraft , British writer and feminist
William Pitt , British Prime Minister
Yuan Mei , Chinese poet, scholar and artist
Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf , German religious writer and bishop
See
Founding Fathers of the United States
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
References
^ Anderson, M. S. (1979). Historians and the Eighteenth-Century Europe, 1715–1789 . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198225482 .
^ Ribeiro, Aileen (2002). Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715-1789 (revised edition) . Yale University Press. ISBN 0300091516 .
^ Marshall, P. J. (Editor) (2001). The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford History of the British Empire) . Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0199246777 . , "Introduction" by P. J. Marshall, page 1
^ O'Gorman, Frank (1997). The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688-1832 (The Arnold History of Britain Series) . A Hodder Arnold Publication. ISBN 0340567511 .
^ a b Porter, Roy (Editor) (2003). The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 4: The Eighteenth Century (The Cambridge History of Science) . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521572436 . , "The Philosopher's Beard: Women and Gender in Science" by Londra Schiebinger, pages 184-210
Decades and years