Philosophy Chronology
Timeline of Events 1700 - 1799
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There are four different types of color-coded dates in these timelines of philosophy:
- European Philosophy
- American Philosophy
- Asian and Islamic Philosophy
- Miscellaneous Events in Philosophy
Words in red are linked to the glossary - so clicking on them will take you to much more information than can be included in brief chronology like this.
| Enlightenment Philosophy: 1700 - 1799 | |
| October 28, 1704 | English philosopher John Locke died at the age of 72. |
| April 15, 1707 | Leonhard Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland. |
| April 26, 1710 | Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid was born. |
| April 26, 1711 | David Hume was born. |
| June 28, 1712 | French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born. |
| October 05, 1713 | Denis Diderot was born. A French empiricist and supporter of the scientific method,Diderot's Encyclopedie, was one of the more influential works of the Enlightenment. |
| January 10, 1715 | German philosopher and theologian Christian August Crusius was born in Lenau, Saxony. |
| January 26, 1715 | French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvetius was born in Paris. |
| November 14, 1716 | Gottfried Leibniz died in Hannover. |
| December 08, 1723 | Baron d'Holbach was born. |
| April 22, 1724 | German philosopher Immanuel Kant was born. |
| September 26, 1729 | Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn was born in Dessau, Germany. |
| January 29, 1737 | Political essayist Thomas Paine was born. |
| April 27, 1737 | Edward Gibbon was born. |
| September 24, 1740 | Immanuel Kant registered for classes at the University of Königsberg. |
| January 25, 1743 | German philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was born in Dusseldorf. |
| August 25, 1744 | German philosopher Johann Gottfried von Herder was born in Modrungen, Germany (now in Poland). Herder was an important influence on the German literary movement known as Sturm und Drang and on the general school of thought known as Romanticism. |
| February 15, 1748 | English philosopher Jeremy Bentham was born. Bentham was a social and political philosopher who proposed radical ideas about government, social organizations and human nature. He argued that the creation of the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people should be the basis for both personal ethics and state acts- as an ethical philosophy, this would come to be known as Utilitarianism.. |
| January 14, 1753 | Philosopher George Berkeley died. |
| April 01, 1754 | Theocrat and conservative political philosopher Joseph-Marie de Maistre was born in Chamberry, France. |
| April 09, 1754 | German Englightenment philosopher Christian Wolff died in Halle, Prussia (now Germany). |
| February 10, 1755 | Charles de Montesquieu died in Paris, France. |
| June 12, 1755 | Immanuel Kant received his Ph.D. from the University of Königsberg. |
| March 03, 1756 | English political philosopher William Godwin was born at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, England. |
| March 22, 1758 | Jonathan Edwards, American theologian and philosopher, died at the age of 54. |
| April 07, 1761 | English clergyman and mathematician Thomas Bayes died. |
| May 19, 1762 | German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte was born. |
| February 14, 1766 | Economist Thomas Robert Malthus was born. |
| November 21, 1768 | Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was born in Breslau, Prussia (now Poland). |
| December 13, 1769 | Immanuel Kant was offered a professorship at the University of Erlangen, but he refused in the hopes that he might be offered one in Königsberg. |
| March 31, 1770 | Immanuel Kant was appointed professor (Professore Ordinario der Logic und Metaphysic) at the University of Königsberg. Kant always wanted to teach at Königsberg and turned down offers to teach at Erlangen and Jena while waiting for an offer here. |
| August 27, 1770 | Friedrich Hegel born. |
| November 10, 1770 | Voltaire is believed to have stated on this date: 'If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.' |
| December 26, 1771 | French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvetius died in Paris. |
| March 10, 1772 | Friedrich von Schlegel, aesthetician and poet, was born. Schlegel was a literary critic who paved the way for the literary period of Romanticism. Schlegel encouraged interest in both antiquity and the Middle Ages, two hallmaks of Romanticism. |
| April 06, 1773 | James Mill - philosopher, historian, and father of John Stuart Mill - was born. |
| November 30, 1774 | Political essayist Thomas Paine arrived in America. |
| January 27, 1775 | German philosopher Friedrich Schelling was born in Leonberg. |
| October 18, 1775 | German philosopher and theologian Christian August Crusius died in Leipizg, Germany. |
| January 10, 1776 | Thomas Paine published 'Common Sense'. |
| February 17, 1776 | The first volume of Edward Gibbon's famous book Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire was published. |
| August 25, 1776 | David Hume died. |
| May 30, 1778 | French philosopher Voltaire died. |
| July 02, 1778 | French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau died. |
| September 18, 1783 | Leonhard Euler died in St. Petersburg, Russia. |
| January 04, 1786 | Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn died in Berlin, Germany. |
| February 19, 1788 | In Prussia the Edict of Censorship was issued. Designed to suppress the writings of the Rosicrucians, it had the unfortunate side-effect of preventing Immanuel Kant from publishing or speaking out on religious matters for some time. |
| February 22, 1788 | German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer was born in Danzig, Germany (now in Poland). |
| January 21, 1789 | Baron d'Holbach died. |
| January 16, 1794 | Edward Gibbon died. |
| January 19, 1798 | Auguste Comte was born. |
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