Age of Enlightenment
c. 1685–c. 1815
Intellectual movement based on reason and individual rights.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- c. 1685–c. 1815
- Place
- Europe
Who was alive during Age of Enlightenment
- George Frideric Handel 1685–1759, composer
- Voltaire 1694–1778, philosopher
- Anne Bonny c. 1697–c. 1782, pirate
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703–1792, religious leader
- John Wesley 1703–1791, religious leader
- Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790, statesman and inventor
- Leonhard Euler 1707–1783, mathematician
- Carl Linnaeus 1707–1778, biologist
- Samuel Johnson 1709–1784, writer
- Frederick the Great 1712–1786, king
- Denis Diderot 1713–1784, philosopher
- Adam Smith 1723–1790, economist and philosopher
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804, philosopher
- Casanova 1725–1798, adventurer
- Edmund Burke 1729–1797, political thinker
- Joseph Haydn 1732–1809, composer
- John Adams 1735–1826, US president
- Paul Revere 1735–1818, American patriot
- James Watt 1736–1819, inventor
- Thomas Paine 1737–1809, political theorist
- Marquis de Sade 1740–1814, nobleman
- Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826, US president
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1744–1812, banker
- Francisco Goya 1746–1828, painter