The Age of Enlightenment

By Jerwin
  • Seperation of Chruch and State

    Seperation of Chruch and State
    This Event caused the period to be called "Radical Enlightment".
    It was a way to say that for the distance in the relationship between organized religion and the nation state.
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin was a influential person in England, Scotland, and the United States and France, for his politics and for his Physics. He was named one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
  • National Variations

    National Variations
    The Enligihtment took hold in most European Countries, often with a Specific local Value. Example, in France it became associated with anti-government and anti-church radicalsim while in Germany it reached deep into the middle classes and where it expressed a spiritual tone without threatening the government or churches.
  • The Book Industry

    The Book Industry
    The Industrial Revolution allowed a lot of the consumers to get a lot of goods in large amounts at lower prices. Which Encouraged the spread of books, pamphlets, newspaperes and journals. People began to have a small number of books and read them multiple times.
  • Charles III

    Charles III
    He was the king of Spain from 1759 to 1788. He tried to rescue his empire from decay by challenging the Catholic Church. He promoted Science and University Research for people, Modernizing the World, and Avoiding Wars. Spain itself got worse after hsi death.
  • American Revolutionary War

    American Revolutionary War
    The Revolutionary War was the uprising of the North American thirteen colonies of Great Britain who claimed their Independence in 1776. France signed an alliance with the new Nation in 1778. The war had its beginning
  • Masons and the Franch and American Revolutions

    Masons and the Franch and American Revolutions
    The Great enemy of Freemasonry was the Roman Catholic Church. For Example, France, Italy, Spain and Mexico, involved a situation with the Davies calls the Church and Enlightened Freemasonry.
  • Scientific Revolution

    Scientific Revolution
    It was the revelation of modern science, when the development in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry transformed the views of the modern society and nature. It began towards the end of the Renaissance period and continued through the late 18th Century. By the End of the 18th Century the Scientific Revolution and its process gave the way to the "Age of Reflection".
  • French Revolution

    French Revolution
    It was a period of social and political conflicts. It provoked less absolute monarchies and replaced them with republics and democracies. The Revolution initiated a lot of Conflicts that spread from the Caribbean to the Middle East.
  • Storming of the Bastille

    Storming of the Bastille
    The Confict occured in Paris, France. In a Prison in Paris known as the Bastille which is in the middle of Paris. The Prison only contained 7 inmates at that time. It was a result of the abuses of the monarchies. The Fall of this prison was considered as the beginning of the French Revolution.