THE ENLIGHTMENT

TIMELINE:

EARLY 18TH CENTURY:

EMERGENCE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
IDEAS

1701 - 1714
THE WAR OF SPANISH SUCCESSION
SPARKS INTELLECTUAL
EXCHANGES IN EUROPE,
FOSTERING ENLIGHTENMENT
IDEAS.

1713
PUBLICATION OF ANTOINE PAGI'S
"CRITIQUE OF THE OLD
TESTAMENT," CHALLENGING
RELIGIOUS DOGMA.

1715
DEATH OF LOUIS XIV ALLOWS FOR
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM IN
FRANCE, FACILITATING
ENLIGHTENMENT DISCOURSE.

MID 18TH CENTURY:

ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS AND
WORKS

1748
MONTESQUIEU PUBLISHES "THE
SPIRIT OF THE LAWS,"
ADVOCATING FOR THE
SEPARATION OF POWERS.

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 THE ENLIGHTMENT
1751 - 1772
PUBLICATION OF "ENCYCLOPÉDIE"
EDITED BY DENIS DIDEROT AND JEAN LE ROND
D'ALEMBERT, THIS MONUMENTAL WORK AIMED TO
COMPILE AND DISSEMINATE KNOWLEDGE. IT BECAME
A SYMBOL OF ENLIGHTENMENT IDEALS AND THE
POWER OF REASON.

1775 - 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
THE ENLIGHTENMENT'S IDEAS FUELED THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WITH THINKERS LIKE JOHN
LOCKE INSPIRING THE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE IN 1776.

1781
IMMANUEL KANT'S "CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
KANT'S WORK REDEFINED PHILOSOPHY, EXPLORING
THE LIMITS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE AND
EMPHASIZING THE ROLE OF REASON HAD ON SHAPING
THE TRAJECTORY OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION AND ALSO
UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD.

1789 - 1799
FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE ENLIGHTENMENT'S INFLUENCE REACHED ITS
PEAK DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, AS THE
PRINCIPLES OF LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND FRATERNITY
BECAME CENTRAL TO THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT.

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