The death of William Shakespeare (1616)
30-Years War of Religion in Europe (1618 – 1648)
The Pilgrims Land at Plymouth Rock (1620)

JOHN LOCKE - 1632 – 1704
Louis XIV ascends the throne of France (1638)
Rembrandt paints The Night Watch (1642)
English Civil War (1642 – 1646)
Society of Friends (Quaker Society) is founded by George Fox (1648)
Isaac Newton invents differential Calculus (1665)
The Great Fire in London destroys much of the old city (1666)

GIAMBATISTA VICO - 1668 – 1744
Isaac Newton constructs a highly effieicnt reflecting telescope, using a mirror (1668)
A cholera epidemic sweeps China (1669)
Pascal's Pensées is published postumously. (1670)

BERNARD MANDEVILLE - 1670 – 1733
American Indians attack settlers in New England (1675)
Ice Cream becomes a popular dessert in Paris (1677)
The Act of Habeas Corpus is passed in England: No imprisonment without trial (1679)
The dodo has now been hunted to extinction in Mauritius (1680)
Halley observes the comet that bears his name (1682)
William Penn's treaty with the American Indians keeps the Pennsylvania colony safe. (1683)

GEORGE BERKELEY - 1685 – 1753
All Chinese ports are opened to foreign trade ((1685)
Publication of Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton (1687)
English Glorious Revolution: William of Orange becomes king of England (1688)

MONTESQUIEU - 1689 – 1755
John Locke writes Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
John Clayton demonstrates the lighting-power of coal gas (1691)
The Spanish crown declares bankruptcy (1692)
Witch trials are held in Salem, in New England (1692)
Peter the Great reforms the Russian calendar (1699)
Yale College is founded in New Haven, Connecticut (1701)
Lahontan introduces the concept of the Noble Savage (1703)
Johann Sebastian Bach composes his first cantata (1704)
Last eruption of Mount Fujiyama in Japan (1707)
Invention of the pianoforte (1709)

DAVID HUME - 1711 – 1776
English inventor Thomas Newcomen constructs a successful steam engine (1711)

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU - 1712 – 1778
Handel presents his Water Music (1714)
End of the reign of Louis XIV of France (1715)
The Emperor K'ang Hsi prohibits the teaching of Christianity in China (1716)
In France, 24-year-old Voltaire is sent to the Bastile (1718)
The last bout of plague in Western Europe (1720)
Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels (1721-1725)

ADAM SMITH - 1723 – 1790
Quakers demand the abolition of slavery. (1727)
Emperor Yung Cheng prohibits Opium smoking in China. (1729)
Benjamin Franklin establishes the first lending library. (1731)
The Koran is translated into English for the first time. (1734)
William Byrd founds Richmond, Virginia. (1737)
The first cuckoo clocks are made in the Black Forest region of Germany. (1738)
Hume's Treatise of Human Nature is published. (1739)
Samuel Johnson presents his Dictionary for the first time. (1747)
The minuet becomes a fashionable dance in Europe. (1751)
Naturalization of Jews is permitted in Britain. (1753)
The French and Indian War takes place in America. (1755)
Halley's comet returns as predicted. (1758)
The British capture Quebec. Both Wolfe and Montcalm are killed. (1759)
The birth of the Industrial Revolution (1760)
Mozart produces his first symphony at age eight. (1764)
The potato becomes the most popular food in Europe. (1765)
The Mason-Dixon line establishs the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. This designation was later used to define slave vs anti-slave states.(1766)
Hargreaves improves his spinning jenny, producing an inexpensive, hand-operated machine. (1768)
Smallpox epidemic in Europe.; famine in Bengal (1770)
Judge Wm. Murray declares, "A slave who sets foot on English soil becomes a free man." (1772)
Lord Chesterfield writes "Letters to His Son." (1774)
The American Revolution (1776 – 1783)
The French Revolution (1788)

March 14 Seminar: Recap, Discussion, and Planning for the next set of sessions