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Treaty of Westphalia
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Molière plays Tartuffe for the first time
- A controversial play that got censored
- Criticizes the french absolute monarchy
- Denounces the hypocrisy of the church
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Death of Louis XIV
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Montesqieu releases Lettres Persanes
- Criticizes absolutism and the hypocrisy of the French court
- Introduces Enlightmenet ideas: rational thinking, fraternity, economic cooperation, criticism of religion
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Beginning of the Enlightenment
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Beginning of the French Revolution
July 4th, 1792 : Takeover of the Bastille -
Coronation of Napoleon as Emperor
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Release of War and Peace by Leon Tolstoy
- Depiction of Russian society at the beginning of the 19th century
- Describes the wars between the French and Russian empires
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Beginning of the Second Industrialization
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Period: to
World War I
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Period: to
World War II
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Period: to
Cold War
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Release of Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco
- Play that uses a rhinoceros as an allegory for the rise of fascism and nazism before and during World War 2
- Criticism of the human who will follow the mass
- Description of the Rise of a movement and ideology
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Maastricht Treaty
- Creation of the European Union