The Eighteenth Century

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_period
gptkbp:endDate 1800
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:The_Nineteenth_Century
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Eighteenth Century
gptkbp:notableArtist works by Mozart
works by Haydn
works by Bach (early 18th century)
works by Beethoven (late 18th century)
gptkbp:notableBattle gptkb:American_Revolutionary_War
gptkb:War_of_Austrian_Succession
gptkb:French_Revolutionary_Wars
gptkb:Seven_Years'_War
Napoleonic Wars (beginning)
gptkbp:notableBook gptkb:Common_Sense
gptkb:Candide
gptkb:The_Wealth_of_Nations
gptkb:Encyclopédie
gptkb:A_Dictionary_of_the_English_Language
gptkb:The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy,_Gentleman
gptkbp:notableColonialism Atlantic slave trade (peak and abolition movements)
expansion of European colonial empires
gptkbp:notableContributor Enlightenment philosophy
Kantian philosophy
Utilitarianism (emerging)
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:The_French_Revolution
gptkb:The_Enlightenment
gptkb:The_American_Revolution
The Industrial Revolution (beginning)
gptkbp:notableFigure gptkb:Adam_Smith
gptkb:Benjamin_Franklin
gptkb:George_Washington
gptkb:Immanuel_Kant
gptkb:Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
gptkb:Mozart
gptkb:Samuel_Johnson
gptkb:Voltaire
gptkb:Catherine_the_Great
gptkbp:notableInstitution gptkb:Catholic_Enlightenment
rise of Methodism
spread of Deism
gptkbp:notableInvention gptkb:steam_locomotive
hot air balloon festival
spinning jenny
smallpox vaccine
chronometer
gptkbp:notableMission gptkb:James_Cook's_voyages
exploration of Australia
exploration of the Pacific
exploration of Africa (increased European interest)
gptkbp:notableMovement gptkb:Enlightenment
gptkb:Neoclassicism
gptkb:Rococo
Romanticism (late)
gptkbp:notablePerson Linnaean taxonomy
discovery of oxygen
development of calculus (late 17th/early 18th century)
Lavoisier's chemistry
Newtonian physics (influence)
gptkbp:notablePlace works by Francisco Goya
works by Jacques-Louis David
works by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
gptkbp:notableRuler gptkb:British_Empire
gptkb:Ottoman_Empire
gptkb:Russian_Empire
gptkb:Qing_Dynasty
gptkb:French_Empire
Mughal Empire (decline)
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:The_Seventeenth_Century
gptkbp:startDate 1701
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:The_Seventeenth_Century
gptkb:Cambridge_History_of_Literary_Criticism
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7