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Hace 2 días · Notable historical events in the late 18th century, that marked the transition from the early modern period to the late modern period, include: the American Revolution (1765–91), French Revolution (1789–99), and beginning of the Industrial Revolution around 1760.
Hace 2 días · 18th century 1700s. 1709: Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano. 1709: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer. 1710s. 1712: Thomas Newcomen builds the first commercial steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine, unlike Thomas Savery's, uses a piston. 1730s
Hace 2 días · History of Latin America, the history of the region (South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Romance language-speaking Caribbean islands) from the pre-Columbian period, including Spanish and Portuguese colonization, the 19th-century wars of independence, and developments to the end of the 20th century.
Hace 5 días · Laurence Sterne (1713-68) (fn. 47) lived in or near the city from 1738 when he entered on the vicarage of Sutton-on-the-Forest (N.R.) until 1760 when, on the publication of the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy in York, he sprang suddenly into national, indeed international, fame and spent most of the remainder of his life away from the city.
Hace 5 días · Searchable compilation of 8 archives and 15 databases, which generate 3.35 million names of individuals living in London during the 18th century. Digital collection of fiction, cartoons, maps, posters, ballads, advertisements, broadsides, and reform literature relevant to the social history of London from 1800 to 1910.
- Jennifer Dorner
- 2015
Hace 6 días · The intellectual dominance of New England was continued into the early 18th century by the theologian and metaphysician Jonathan Edwards (1703-58). The period of the American Revolution was dominated by political writers, such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine.
Hace 4 días · Eighteenth Century: The Samuel Johnson Period (1745-1785) The Samuel Johnson period (1745-1785), also known as the Age of Johnson, marks a transition from the Augustan to the Romantic period in British literature. This era is characterized by a blend of neoclassical values and emerging romantic sensibilities.
