Professor Ann Earle
Lecturer in Humanities
330 Library
(802) 654-2682
aearle@smcvt.edu

Lamentation For Saint Sebastian, by La Tour

Enlightenment Appendix

Significant Dates

The Politics of Enlightenment.

     1740-1786  Friedrich II rules as king of Prussia

     1740-1748  War of the Austrian Succession

     1750  First volume of the Encyclopedie

     1748  Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws

     1756-1763  Seven Years' War

     1762  Rousseau's The Social Contract

     1774  First Continental  Congress meets in Philadelphia

     1775  Cossack rebellion in Russia under Pugachev

     1776  American War of Independence

     1781  Joseph II issues the Edict of Toleration

     1783  Treaty of Paris

     1789  U.S. constitution adopted

     1765-1790  Joseph II rules as Austrian emperor

     1762-1796  Catherine II rules as empress of Russia

     1743-1826  Life of Thomas Jefferson

 

Jane Austen's Life and Times

   1756-1791   Life of Mozart

     1757-1827  Life of William Blake

     1759-1797  Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

     1770-1850  Life of William Wordsworth

     1775  Birth of Jane Austen in Steventon, Hampshire

     1776  Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations

     1778  Fanny Burney's Evelina

     1780  Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets

     1781  Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions

     1783-1785  Jane Austen with her sister attends schools at Oxford and Southampton,
                        and the Abbey School at Reading

     1786  Austen continures her education at home, directed by family.  Learns French
                        and Italian, reads extensively in English Literature, studies piano

     1786  Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro

     1789  French Revolution begins; William Blake's Songs of Innocence

     1790  Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France

     1792  Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of theRights of Women

    1793  England enters war against France

     1794  Blake's Songs of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

     1795-1821  Life of John Keats

     1798  Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads

     1801  Austen moves with her parents and sister to Bath on her father's retirement

     1802  Peace of Amiens

     1803  War with France resumes

     1804  Napoleon declares himself emperor of France

     1805  Rev. Austen dies.   Trafalgar establishes England as the world's supreme
                          naval pwer

     1807  Abolition of slave trade in England

     1808  Beginning of Peninsular War

     1809  Austen moves with fmaily to cottage at Chawton, Hampshire

     1811  Sense and Sensibility

     1812  Napoleon invades Russia; War of 1812 in America

     1813  Pride and Prejudice

     1814  Mansfield Park

     1815  Battle of Waterloo

     1816  Emma

     1817  Persuasion completed,   Austen's dies on July 18
               Keats' Poems

     1818  Persuasion and Northanger Abbey published