Major works of the Enlightenment

  • Newton

    Newtons Principia Mathematica
  • Locke's

    Locke's essay on Human Understanding
  • Wolffs

    Wrote thoughts on god
  • Voltaires

    Letters on the English
  • Montesquieu's

    sprits of the laws
  • Rousseau's

    Discourse on the origin of inequality
  • Rousseau's

    Rousseau's Discourse on the the origin of Inequality
  • Voltaires

    Candid
  • Voltaires

    Voltaire's philosophical dictionary
  • smith

    Wealth of nations
  • The French revolution

    Louis XVI summons the Estates General
  • Chapelier Law

  • war

    France declares war on Austria
  • King Louis xvi

    executed
  • Napoleon

    overthrows the Directory