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5.0 Unit 5 Overview: Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th-Century
1 min read•june 11, 2020
Jillian Holbrook
Dylan Black
Main Events
1648: Peace of Westphalia
1660: Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan
1682: Peter the Great’s reign begins
1685: Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes
1688: John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government, Glorious Revolution
1707: England and Scotland join under the Act of Union
1713: Treaty of Utrecht
1756-1763: Seven Years’ War
1789: Tennis Court Oath, Storming of the Bastille, Women’s march on Versailles
1792: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women
1793: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are executed
1794: Fall of Robespierre and the Jacobins
1804: Napoleon crowned Emperor of France
1814: The Congress of Vienna
1815: Napoleon escapes Elba (March 15), is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo (June 18), and gets re-exiled to St. Helena
Major Trends Between 1648-1815
- A growing global economy had long lasting effects
- Commercial competition
- Seven Years’ War
- Mercantilism → Maximized exports and profits → Minimized imports
- Effects of challenging political order
- England’s Civil War → Glorious Revolution
- Asserted the rights of Parliament
- French Revolution → Reign of Terror → Rise of Napoleon
- Congress of Vienna met for to re-establish European order
- The Scientific Revolution clashed with Romanticism
- Scientific Revolution:
- Logic, skepticism, observation, reasoning
- Romanticism:
- Art, passion, nationalism, emotion
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