Scientific Revolution/ Enlightenment Era

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    Great North War- Sweden and Russia

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    War of Spanish Succession

  • Treaty of Utrecht

  • John Kay's Flying Shutle

  • Start Of War of Jenkin's Ear- England and Spain

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    War of Austrian Succession- Austria and Prussia

  • Spirit of Laws- Montesquieu

  • Inquiry Into Human Nature- Hume

  • Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle

  • Denis Diderot- Volume One of Encyclopedia

  • Rousseau- Discourse on The Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences

  • Convention of Westminister- England and Prussia

  • "Diplomatic Revolution"

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    Seven Years' War- Austria and Prussia

  • Battle of Plassey

  • Voltaire- Candide

  • England Captures Quebec

  • Rousseau publishes The Social Contract

  • Start of Enlightened Despots Seeking Economic Growth

  • Voltaire- Treatise On Tolerance

  • Treaty Of Paris

  • Cessare Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments

  • James Hargreaves Invents Spinning Jenny

  • Richard Arkwright's Water Frame

  • Partition of Poland #1

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    Pugachev's Rebellion

  • Adam Smith Publishes Wealth of Nations

  • Laissez-faire Popular Term

  • Catherine II Issues Charter of the Nobility

  • Edmund Cartwright's Power Loom