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ROUSSEAU BIRTH
Geneva, Switzerland -
DENIS DIDEROT BIRTH
Langres, Champagne -
THOMAS PAINE BIRTH
Thetford, Norfolk -
DENIS DIDEROT, ENCYCLOPEDIE
The general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772 was edited by Denis Diderot and, until 1759, co-edited by Jean le Rond d'Alembert. -
DENIS DIDEROT'S ARREST
The project was suspended by the courts in 1752. Just as the second volume was completed accusations arose, regarding seditious content, concerning the editor's entries on religion and natural law. Diderot was detained and his house was searched for manuscripts for subsequent articles. But the search proved fruitless as no manuscripts could be found. They were hidden in the house of an unlikely confederate–Chretien de Lamoignon Malesherbes, the very official who ordered the search. -
ROUSSEAU'S BOOK CALLED 'DISCOURSE ON INEQUALITY'
Human state of nature
Human perfectibility
The way they have established civil society
Private property as the original source and basis of all inequality -
ROUSSEAU'S BOOK, 'The Social Contract'
'Man is born free but he is everywhere in chains'
Legitimate political authority, he suggests, comes only from a social contract agreed upon by all citizens for their mutual presevation -
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH BIRTH
Cockermouth, United Kingdom -
THOMAS PAINE PAMPHLET
'Common Sense'
Independence
500,000 copies were sold during the revolution
Attack's the monarchy (George 3rd) -
ROUSSEAU DEATH
Ermenonville, France
Due to a hemorrhage -
DENIS DIDEROT DEATH
Paris, France
Due to pulmonary thrombosis
Buried in the city's Église Saint-Roch -
Storming of the Bastille
The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris.
The prison only contained seven inmates at the time of its storming but was a symbol of the abuses of the monarchy: its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution. -
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH POEMS
First publication of poems in the collections of 'An Evening Walk' and 'Descriptive Sketches' -
The Reign of Terror
Was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". -
THOMAS PAINE DEATH
New York City, US
Due to old age -
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH DEATH
Cumberland, England
Due to an aggravated case of pleurisy.
Buried in Grasmere, Cumbria
