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Moliere
Wrote Tartuffe which is about Orgon and his mother who does not do anything without Tartuffe's consulting. -
Matsuo Basho
Was very famous for his haiku's. -
Thomas Savery
An inventor who invented the steam engine in 1698. -
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
He wrote "The Love Suicides at Amijima". It is about two lovers tha commit suicide. This play has been performed in a puppet theatre. -
Jonathan Swift
Wrote A Modest Proposal which was published in 1729. -
Abraham Darby
He invented wrought iron which is much more malleable than cast iron. -
Voltaire
He wrote Candide in 1759, which is a story about a man named Candide who lives in an edenic paradise. Voltaire was born in 1694 and died in 1778. -
Cao Xueqin
Cao composed "The Story of the Stone". worte the first 80 chapters. The realtiy and illusion can be seen in this novel. -
Yosa Buson
He is considered a great poet among the Edo period. -
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel wrote an essay about "What is Enlightment?" This essay addresses the causes of a lack of enlightenment. It was published in 1784. -
Richard Arkwright
He is the creator of modern factory system. -
Geroge Washington
In 1788 he was elected president. -
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Wrote about the legend Faust. It is about a man who is not satissfied with his life therefore he exchanges his soul for knowledge and pleasures. -
William Blake
In 1789 "The Chimney Sweeper " was published. It was written by Blake. -
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Industrial Revolution
Began in England with military power wanting to take big portions of the world. Hand productions changed to machines. -
William Wordsworth
Wordsworth is a great writer. He wrote "Lines Composed a Few miles Above Tintern Abbey", "Ode on Intimations of Immortality", and "We are seven". "We are Seven" is about a discussion between an adult an a child. Speakng of how many siblings she actuallly has. -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Among other peoms, Samuel wrote "Frost at Midnight" which is about Coleridge's childhood negative experience whom thought that beeing raised in the countryside was better. He also wrote "Kubla Khan". -
Declaration of independence
United States declared independence. -
The Brothers Grimm
They were storytellers who also edited some works. For example, Oratue, "German Folktale:The Three Spinners", "English Folktale: Tom Tim Tot", and "Malagasy Wisdom Poetry". -
Constituion of the United States
Constituion of the United States was made in 1788 -
United States Independence
the united states contains the independence from Britain in 1788 -
The Storming of the Bastille
In symbol that peasants wanted liberation they stormed the Bastille in 1789. -
French Constitution
Absoulte monarchy is abolished and constitutional monarchy is set. -
Guillotine
It was a device that was invented to do executions. To chop there heads off. -
France Republic
The national convention sets the first french republic. -
Reign of Terror
It's a time period after the french revolution that was full of violence. . -
Louis XVI
Louis XVI was executed at the place the la concorde in the revolution in 1793. -
Napoleon
He became emperor of france in 1804. -
Nathaniel Hawthorne
He wrote Young Goodman Brown in 1835. -
Napoleon exiled
In 1814 napoleon exiled to elba but he escapes. -
Battle of Waterloo
Where Napoleon was defeated by the seventh coalition. -
Karl Marx
He wrote the Communist manifesto in 1848. -
Herman Melville
Melville is tha author of Bartleby, the Scrivener. it is about a lawyer who has a business that helps wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bond -
Leo Tolstoy
Among many writings Tolsoty did was "The Death of Ivan Ilyich". It was published in 1886. it is about a man who seems to have a good life but finds out that his dying when he suddenly ingures himself. -
Springtime of peoples
The french abolished slavery in 1848. -
Slavery
Slavery abolished in the 1864. -
Higuchi Ichiyo
Around 1895 she wrote "Seperate Ways".
