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the Enlightenment in britain 18th Century

The Age of Reason

It was a movement that encompassed literature, philosophy, science, and education. Writing was seen as an art the belles lettres and many works were published. It was a period of descoveries and colonialism that is reflected in geographical and scientific descoveries.

1688

1789

1707

Treaty of Union and Acts of Union.

1714

Queen Anne died and throne was inherited by George I

The throne of Britain was denied to James II’s son, James Francis Edward Stuart (The Old Pretender). The Jacobite rising in 1715. The Old Pretender tried to retrieve the throne. Supporters of The Old Pretender were defeated in the Battle of Culloden (1746)

1727

George II was crowned

The stability of the constitutional system was assured by a goverment managed by Robert Walpole from 1730 to 1742. Walpole's policy incresed colonies in North America and the Caribbean and the First British Empire were established.

1760

The Industrial Revolution

The steam engine was improved from the first decade of the 18th century. The transition from the handmade production to manufactured goods and the mass production. The improvements in the use of iron, the steam power, coal and steel. The invention of the spinning machine in 1764 afforded the massive production of fabrics. The shift of the population from the country to the cities and the new working classes appeared. A resistence against machines emerged. They were the luddites who believed their job would be substituited by machines.

1775-83

The American Revolutionary War

Precedents: The colonists' denial of paying taxes took place in The Boston Tea Party when colonists destroyed a bulk tea shipment in 1773 The Stamp Act Congress in 1773 was the first meeting of all political leaders of British colonies was hold to start a war against British government. Aftermath: George Washington was named the first president of the new nation and the Amendment of the Constitution were elaborated in 1787

The Seven Years' War

the United Kingdom defeated France with the help of Prussia. The aftermath were the control of Canada (the French lands).

1756-63

the union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland into a new unitary state called Great Britain.

The Glorious Revolution:

  • It is considered the beginning of the Enlightenment.
  • James II was replaced by his daughter Mary II and her husband the King William of Orange.
  • It was relatively bloodless.

The French Revolution is considered the end of the Enlightenment. The former French king Louis XVI was beheaded in 1793. The sense of freedom, pursuit happiness, fraternity and toleration, progress, the evidence of senses and the age of reason were some of the characteristics of the Enlightenment, and converged in the ideal of the French Revolution.

The stability of the constitutional system was assured by a goverment managed by Robert Walpole from 1730 to 1742.

the union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland into a new unitary state called Great Britain.

Some remarkable Enlightenment authors: Joseph Addison and Richard Steele The Spetator, a newspaper which was published from 1711 to 1712. Daniel Dafoe - Robinson Crusoe (1719). Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock (1712). Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels (1726). Henry Fielding - Tom Jones (1749).