AP Euro Ch 17/18 By feathr3 Period: 1697 to 1718 Charles XII (Sweden) Period: 1700 to 1746 Philip V, the first Bourbon king Period: 1713 to 1740 Frederick William I Period: 1714 to 1727 George I Period: 1715 to 1774 Louis XV 1721 Montesquieu, Persian Letters Period: 1721 to 1742 Robert Walpole Period: 1727 to 1760 George II 1733 Voltaire, Philosophic Letters on the English Period: 1739 to 1740 Hume, Treatise on Human Nature Period: 1740 to 1780 Maria Theresa Period: 1740 to 1786 Frederick II the Great 1748 Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws Period: 1750 to 1777 Marquis of Pombal 1751 Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV Period: 1751 to 1765 Diderot, Encyclopedia (After Voltaire's Age of Louis) Period: 1757 to 1761 William Pitt the Elder Period: 1759 to 1788 Charles III (Spain) Period: 1760 to 1820 George III 1762 Rousseau, The Social Contract; Emile Period: 1762 to 1796 Catherine II the Great 1763 Voltaire, Treatise on Toleration 1764 Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments Period: 1766 to 1808 Christian VII 1770 Holbach, System of Nature Period: 1771 to 1792 Gustavus III 1772 First partition Period: 1773 to 1775 Pugachev's rebellion Period: 1774 to 1792 Louis XVI 1776 Smith, The Wealth of Nations Period: 1776 to 1788 Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Period: 1780 to 1790 Joseph II Period: 1783 to 1801 William Pitt the Younger 1785 Charter of the Nobility 1792 Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1793 Second partition 1794 Condorcet, The Progress of the Human Mind 1795 Third partition