The Enlightenment By ybthomas 1649 English Civil War overthrows Charles I, installs Cromwell https://www.historic-uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cromwell-armour.jpg 1651 Hobbes publishes Leviathan 1688 Glorious Revolution unseats James II, installs William and Mary 1689 English Bill of Rights drafted 1690 Locke publishes Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government 1715 Louis XIV dies; Louis XV takes French throne 1748 Montesquieu publishes The Spirit of Laws 1748 Hume publishes An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 1751 Diderot publishes first volume of Encyclopédie 1759 Voltaire publishes Candide 1762 Rousseau publishes The Social Contract 1769 Watt invents improved steam engine 1770 Rousseau finishes Confessions 1774 Goethe publishes The Sorrows of Young Werther 1776 Smith publishes Wealth of Nations 1781 Kant publishes Critique of Pure Reason Fea 1781 De Gouges publishes Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen 1785 Kant publishes Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals 1808 Goethe publishes first part of Faust 1832 Goethe publishes second part of Faust
