Chapter 18 Review: Important Events
| 1751–1772 | Encyclopedia is published in France |
| 1756–1763 | Seven Years’ War is fought in Europe, India, and the American colonies |
| 1762 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract |
| 1763 | Wilkes affair begins in Great Britain |
| 1764 | Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary |
| 1771 | Louis XV of France fails to break power of French law courts |
| 1772 | First partition of Poland |
| 1773 | Pugachev rebellion of Russian peasants |
| 1775 | Flour War in France |
| 1776 | American Declaration of Independence from Great Britain; Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations |
| 1780 | Joseph II of Austria undertakes a wide-reaching reform program |
| 1781 | Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason |
| 1784 | Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro |
| 1785 | Catherine the Great’s Charter of the Nobility grants nobles exclusive control over their serfs in exchange for subservience to the state |
| 1787 | Delegates from the states draft the U.S. Constitution |
Consider three events: Encyclopedia published in France (1751–1772), Wilkes affair begins in Great Britain (1763), and American Declaration of Independence from Great Britain (1776). In what ways did the same Enlightenment ideals inform these events?