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The age of Enlightenment
Reformist movement of the 18th century that defended the use of the "light"of reason to transform society. -
Earthquake in Japan
On September 30, 1730, an earthquake occurred in Japan that left 137,000 dead. -
HENRY CAVENDISH DISCOVERED HYDROGEN
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. -
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and piano teacher. His musical legacy covers, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism. -
Scipio's dream
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. -
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BOURGEOIS REVOLUTION
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. -
BONAPARTE SEIZES THE POWER OF FRANCE
In 1801, Bonaparte finally gets to control France. -
México Independence
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.