Events Tagged: "Illuminati"

Adam Weishaupt founds Illuminati on Walpurgisnacht - order to promote rationalism and destroy 'superstition' and 'despotism'

Congress of Wilhelmsbad at Rothschild's castle - Illuminist rationalism infiltrates Masonic lodges

Illuminati reach peak 2000-3000 members including Goethe, Herder, government officials

Lightning kills Illuminati courier Lanz - Bavarian authorities find documents revealing infiltration plans

Bavarian government publishes seized Illuminati documents - Weishaupt flees to Gotha

Abbe Barruel publishes Memoirs Illustrating History of Jacobinism - claims Revolution was Illuminati conspiracy

John Robison publishes Proofs of a Conspiracy - sparks Illuminati panic in Britain and America