Philosophy • Learning • Innovation • Terror • Freedom • Drama • Travel • War • Entertainment • Glamor • Excess
“MAN IS BORN FREE AND EVERYWHERE HE IS IN CHAINS.” – JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
1756 Seven Years’ War (Terror, War)
1759 British Museum Opens (Learning, Entertainment)
1758 Passage of Halley’s Comet (Learning, Drama)
1760 Industrial Revolution (Innovation)
1760 Great Fire of Boston (Terror)
1762 Rousseau’s The Social Contract (Philosophy)
1764 Mozart’s First Symphony (Entertainment)
1765 Stamp Act Tax (Drama, Terror)
1765 American Revolution (Freedom, War)
1769 First Edition of Encyclopedia Brittanica (Learning, Innovation)
1769 Watt’s Steam Engine (Innovation)
