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1751
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First volume of Denis
Diderot‘s Encyclopédie
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1753–1806
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Japanese painter Kitagawa Utamaro
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1759
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Voltaire’sCandide
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1762
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Jean Jacques Rousseau’sThe Social
Contract
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c. 1770
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Romantic movement in art and
literature
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1771
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England: Encyclopedia Britannica published
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1772
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China: Complete works of Chinese literature compiled by imperial
library
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1772
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Franz Joseph Haydn’sFarewell
Symphony
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1776
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Thomas Paine’sCommon Sense
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1776
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Adam Smith’sWealth of
Nations
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1776
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German Sturm und
Drang movement
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1781
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Immanuel Kant’sCritique of Pure
Reason
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1783
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Noah Webster publishes The American Spelling Book
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1786
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’sThe Marriage of
Figaro
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1787
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Ottobah Cugoana’sThoughts and
Sentiments on Slavery
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1788–1850
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French novelist Honoré de
Balzac
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1789
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William Blake’sSongs of
Innocence
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1790
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Edmund Burke’sReflections on the
Revolution in France
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1792
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Mary Wollstonecraft’sA Vindication of
the Rights of Woman
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1795–1821
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British poet John Keats
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1797
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Austrian composer Franz
Schubert
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1798
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William Wordsworth and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical
Ballads
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1798
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Thomas Malthus’sEssay on the Principle
of Population
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1804
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Napoleonic legal code
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1808–1832
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Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe’sFaust
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1808
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Ludwig van Beethoven’sSymphony No.
5
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1810–1849
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Polish composer Frédéric
Chopin
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1811–1812
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Luddites in England destroy
machinery
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1812–1870
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British novelist Charles
Dickens
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1813–1855
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Danish philosopher Søren
Kierkegaard
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1813
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Jane Austen’sPride and
Prejudice
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1818
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Mary Shelley’sFrankenstein
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1828
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Noah Webster publishes American
Dictionary of the English Language
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1833
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Ando Hiroshige’s 53 Stages of the Tokaido
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1833–1897
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German composer Johannes
Brahms
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1835
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Alexis de Tocqueville’sDemocracy in
America
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1835–1910
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American writer and satirist Mark
Twain
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1836
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United States: Ralph Waldo
Emerson leads Transcendentalist movement
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1839–1906
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French artist Paul Cézanne
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1840–1928
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British novelist Thomas Hardy
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1845
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”
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1847
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Brontë sisters publish novels in
Britain
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1848
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Marx and Engels’s Communist
Manifesto
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1850
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’sThe Scarlet
Letter
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1851
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Herman Melville’sMoby-Dick
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1853
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Steinway piano factory founded in New York
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1854–1900
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Irish writer Oscar Wilde
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1856–1857
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Gustave Flaubert and Charles
Baudelaire publish in France
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1862
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Victor Hugo’sLes Misérables
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1862–1918
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French composer Claude
Debussy
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1863
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John Stuart
Mill’sUtilitarianism
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1866
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Fyodor Dostoevsky’sCrime and
Punishment
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1867
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Karl Marx’sCapital
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1867–1916
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Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío
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1869
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Leo Tolstoy’sWar and Peace
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1871–1922
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French writer Marcel Proust
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1874
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Paris: First exhibition
of Impressionist painting
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1874–1963
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American poet Robert Frost
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1883
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Friedrich Nietzsche’sThus Spoke
Zarathustra
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1883–1949
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Mexican artist José Clemente
Orozco
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1886–1957
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Mexican artist Diego Rivera
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1888
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Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers
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1888–1953
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American dramatist Eugene
O’Neill
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1889
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Paris: Eiffel Tower completed
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1896
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Greece: Olympic Games revived
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1897
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Émile Durkheim’sSuicide
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1897–1962
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American novelist William
Faulkner
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1900
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Sigmund Freud’sThe Interpretation of
Dreams
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1902
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Egypt: First Aswan Dam
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1904
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Max Weber’sThe Protestant Ethic and
the Spirit of Capitalism
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1909
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House in
Chicago
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1911
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Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wins Nobel
Prize for Literature
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1912
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Titanic sinks off
Newfoundland
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1912
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Thomas Mann’sDeath in Venice
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1913
|
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Armory Show in New York City signals
arrival of modernist art in United
States
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1913
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Igor Stravinsky’sThe Rite of
Spring
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