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Baroque Art Movement
1600
Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
1619
Rembrandt paints "Night Watch"
1642
French Classicism
1650
Vermeer paints "The Astronomer"
1668
Isaac Newton's "Principia"
1687
Locke's "2nd Treatise of Government"
1689
Watt's Steam engine invented
1705
Kay's flying shuttle invented
1733
Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"
1748
Diderot's "Encyclopedia"
1751
Voltaire's "Candide"
1759
Rousseau's "Emile"
1762
Hargreaves Spinning Jenny invented
1764
Arkwright's water frame invented
1769
Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
1776
Cartwright's power loom invented
1784
Abbe Sieyes "What is the Third Estate"
1789
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
1789
Declaration of Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
1791
Malthus' ideas on population
1798
Romanticism
1800
Friedrich List's Economic Nationalism
1841
Early Utopian Socialist ideals emerge: Charles Fourier, Louis Blanc
1848
Marx & Engles "The Communist Manifesto"
1848
Literary and Artistic Realism
1850
Darwin's "Origin of Species"
1859
Pasteur's Germ Theory
1860
Impressionist Movement
1874
Post-Impressionism
1880
Emile Zola's "J'Accuse"
1898
Kipling writes "White Man's Burden'
1899
Descartes's "Discourse on Method"
1937
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