13 events with tag "Enlightenment"
1704
ID: 471
Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce publishes 'New Voyages' featuring Adario (based on Kondiaronk) critiquing European society
ID: 471
1712
ID: 476
June 28, 1712
Jean-Jacques Rousseau born in Geneva; mother dies in childbirth, father abandons him at age 10
ID: 476
1717
ID: 478
June 24, 1717
Formation of first Grand Lodge in London at Goose and Gridiron alehouse, beginning modern organized Freemasonry
ID: 478
1721
ID: 484
Montesquieu publishes 'Persian Letters' using exotic outsider to critique European society
ID: 484
1735
ID: 504
La Condamine's Amazon expedition returns with accounts of indigenous life - Rousseau reads avidly
ID: 504
1740
ID: 511
Frederick the Great takes throne, rejects Pietism for French Enlightenment but maintains Pietist administration
ID: 511
1740
ID: 2257
Frederick the Great abolishes torture in Prussia - Enlightenment reforms of criminal procedure
ID: 2257
1744
ID: 2314
Prussian bankruptcy code allows rehabilitation after 10 years - bankrupt can return to full civil rights, influenced by Enlightenment
ID: 2314
1751
ID: 538
Diderot's Encyclopedia begins - systematic replacement of Christian worldview with hidden materialism
ID: 538
1764
ID: 2269
Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments - proportionality, deterrence, opposing torture and death penalty
ID: 2269
1767
ID: 5995
Catherine the Great convenes Legislative Commission - attempts Enlightenment legal reform, writes Nakaz instruction
ID: 5995
1776
ID: 591
May 1, 1776
Adam Weishaupt founds Illuminati on Walpurgisnacht - order to promote rationalism and destroy 'superstition' and 'despotism'
ID: 591
1778
ID: 599
Franklin joins Lodge of Nine Sisters Paris - most prestigious Enlightenment lodge with Voltaire, Condorcet, Danton
ID: 599