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John Locke
His was born in (29 August 1632 and die in 28 October 1704).He was one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. One of his ideas was natural rights which stated that all people should given freedom and other rights such as freedom of speech, religion and other rights. He believed that rights of people should be protected by the government. His writings influenced the American constituion and the Decleration of Independence. -
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When The Enlightment Started
It started in 1650 to 1700, it was started by John Locke and other Enlightenment thinkers who challenged the Kings/absolute Moncharhies of the day. The Enlightenment ideas inspired the American & French Revolutions. -
Joseph Marie Vien
He began a movement through his with his and design, Joseph Marie Vien concerned himself with returning to the ideals of classical Greek and Roman . -
Maria Anna Angelica Kauffmann
She was born at Chur in Graubünden. Her father, Johann Josef Kauffmann, was a poor man and mediocre painter, but apparently very successful in teaching his precocious daughter. She rapidly acquired several languages, read incessantly, and showed marked talents as a musician. -
Angelica Kauffman
She was born at Chur in Switzerland, but grew up in Schwarzenberg in where her family originated. Her father, Joseph Johann Kauffman was a poor man but a painter, who was oftened traveling for his work. It was he who taught his precocious daughter. Angelica learned several languages from her mother Cleophea Lutz read incessantly and showed talent as a musician -
French Revolution
The enlightnment which led to many European writers criticisting the Monarchy and espousing democratic liberalist nationalist and socialist ideas.
1756- Start of the Seven Year's War, which compounded the debt situation .
1774- coronation of Louis XVI at Reims.
1775- start of the American War Of Independence
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Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova was born in Possagno, a village of the Republic of Venice situated amid the recesses of the hills of Asolo, where these form the last undulations of the Venetian Alps, as they subside into the plains of Treviso. At three years of age Canova was deprived of both parents, his father dying and his mother remarrying. Their loss, however, was compensated by the tender solicitude and care of his paternal grandfather and grandmother, the latter of whom lived to experience in her turn the -
George III
George III of the United Kingdom spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk George III was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. Wikipedia Born: June 4, 1738, Norfolk House Died: January 29, 1820, Windsor Castle Spouse: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (m. 1761) Children: George IV of the United Kingdom, William IV of the -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, often called the Peace of Paris, or the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763, by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement. It ended the Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War in the North American theatre.[1] The Treaty was made possible by the British victory over France and Spain, and marked the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe.[2] The treaty did not involve either Prussia or Austria who sign -
Thomas Paine Common Sense
is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution. Common Sense, was signed, "Written by an Englishman", and it became an immediate success.[2] In relative proportion to the population of the colonies at that time, it had the largest sale and circulation of any book published in American history. Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the q -
The Middle Colonies
The Middle Colonies comprised the middle region of the Thirteen Colonies of the British Empire in North America. In 1776 during the American Revolution, the Middle Colonies became independent of Britain as the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware. -
The Reign Terror
The Reign of Terror (5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794: the latter is date 10,year and II of the French Revolutionary Calendar), also known simply as The Terror (French: la Terreur), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass of "enemies of the revolution." The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by -
The Boston Tea Party
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American Revolution
The american Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half on the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the Britsh Empire.