1750 – 1800

 

Political & Diplomatic

Intellectual & Cultural

Social & Economic

Seven YearÕs War

Ed Jenner-smallpox

Adam Smith—Wealth of Nations

Catherine the Great

Diderot Encyclopedia

Rus. Charter of Nobility

Joseph II of Austria

Rousseau—Social Contract

Beccaria

Napoleonic Wars 1792---

Watt-Steam Engine

John Wesley

Fr. Revol 1789

E. General, Nat Ass.

Arkwright-Waterframe

Hogarth dies 1764

Reign of Terror 1793

Candide 1759

Madame Geoffrin

Directory 1795

Mozart

Mary Wollstonecraft

Boneparte coup 1799

Edit of Toleration 1781

August 4 –End of Old Regime

Partition of Poland

1772, 93, 95

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Olympe de Gouge

Pugachev 1773

Liberte, Egalite, Fratenite

Spinning Jenny 1768

Frederick II

 

Water Frame 1771

 

 

Power Loom 1785

Medical professionalism aimed at excluding midwives and folk healers. Alcoholism thrives in England (ÒDrunk for a penny, dead drunk for 2)  The middle class gathered in ÒcoffeehousesÓ to discuss the news of he day. During Fr. Revolution women are involved in politics (Bread March, Declaration of Rights of Women) women also formed the Society for Revolutionary Republican Women a group which fought for  equal rights for women.  The organization was condemned by the ÒMountainÓ because it broke with the traditional and accepted role of women.  Noteworthy is the concept that most women who participated in the events of the revolution did so as members of their social CLASS, not their GENDER.  Women gained little from the revolution itself.