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Reformist movement of the 18th century that defended the use of the "light"of reason to transform society.
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On September 30, 1730, an earthquake occurred in Japan that left 137,000 dead. -
On February 23 In England, the British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish discovered hydrogen, which he calls "flammable air" and thereby determined the composition of the air. -
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and piano teacher. His musical legacy covers, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism.
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Il sogno di Scipione (Scipio's Dream) is a theatrical action in one act, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1772) based on a text by Pietro Metastasio, in Italian. It is numbered KV 126. -
The French Revolution was the first to create a state based on the ideas of the Enlightenment. All the people who supported the French Revolution shared the same ideas about the system of government that should replace absolutism.
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In 1801, Bonaparte finally gets to control France. -
The independence of Mexico was the consequence of a political and social process resolved with arms, which put an end to Spanish rule in most of the territories of New Spain and began the First Mexican Empire.