Famous People in World History 1688-1900
1. The Age of Absolutism page 19 1572 Catherine de Medici 1624 Louis XIII 1628 Cardinal Richelieu 1682 Louis XIV 1665 Jean Colbert 1740 Frederick the Great 2. The Russian Empire page 27 1480 Ivan the Great 1565 Ivan the Terrible 1703 Peter the Great 1785 Catherine the Great 3. The Glorious Revolution, 1688 page 33 1603 James I 1625 Charles I 1649 Oliver Cromwell 1651 Thomas Hobbes 1660 Charles II 1685 James II 1688 William & Mary 1721 Walpole 4. The Age of Enlightenment page 43 1689 John Locke 1748 Montesquieu 1759 Voltaire 1762 Rousseau 5. The American Revolution, 1776 page 49 1776 Benjamin Franklin 1776 Thomas Jefferson 1787 James Madison 1789 George Washington 1820 Simon Bolivar 6. The French Revolution, 1789 page 55 1789 Louis XVI 1789 Marie Antoinette 1789 Lafayette 1793 Robespierre 1812 Napoleon 1815 Duke of Wellington 1799 Toussaint L’Ouverture 7. Congress of Vienna page 63 1815 Prince Metternich 1815 Prince Talleyrand 8. Rise of Capitalism page 67 1776 Adam Smith 1798 Thomas Malthus 1817 David Ricardo 9. The Industrial Revolution page 71 1769 James Watt 1769 James Hargreaves 1769 Richard Arkwright 1797 Eli Whitney 1807 Robert Fulton 1829 George Stephenson 1856 Henry Bessemer 1831 Michael Faraday 1876 Alexander Graham Bell 1879 Thomas Edison 1898 Guglielmo Marconi 10. Movements of Social Protest page 83 1837 Charles Dickens 1832 Jeremy Bentham 1859 John Stuart Mill 1833 Robert Owen 1900 George Bernard Shaw 1848 Friedrich Engels 1848 Karl Marx 1891 Pope Leo XIII 11. Liberal reforms in England page 93 1833 William Wilberforce 1868 William Gladstone 1874 Benjamin Disraeli 1916 David Lloyd George 12 Rise of Nationalism page 99 1793 Thaddeus Kosciusko 1848 Louis Kossuth 1852 Count Cavour 1860 Garibaldi 1870 Bismarck 13. The Age of Imperialism page 105 1858 Queen Victoria 1857 The Sepoys 1899 Rudyard Kipling 1869 Ferdinand de Lessups 1869 Stanley & Livingstone 1878 King Leopold of Belgium 1870 Cecil Rhodes 1899 The Boers 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry 1868 The Meiji Emperor 1900 The Boxers 1900 Mark Twain 1898 Emilio Aguinaldo 14. Breakthroughs in Science page 119 1796 Edward Jenner 1850 Louis Pasteur 1860 Joseph Lister 1859 Charles Darwin 1890 Ivan Pavlov 1890 Sigmund Freud 1898 Madame Curie 15. Two who deserved the Nobel Prize page 127 1854 Florence Nightingale 1895 Alfred Nobel