1711
Queen Anne's reign
1711 is a year in the early eighteenth century, during the reign of Queen Anne in Britain.
Like other year numbers, it functions as a noun identifying a specific point in time: The treaty was signed in 1711.
Years from this period appear frequently in historical contexts discussing colonial America, European wars, and early Enlightenment developments.
Eighteenth-century European dynastic conflict
- Treaty of Utrecht1713 succession war settlement
- Great Northern WarBaltic supremacy conflict, 1700s
- coffeehouse cultureSocial milieu of cafés
- pamphleteeringDistributing short printed arguments
English monarch, furniture period
- Jonathan SwiftDublin's savage satirist
- Isaac NewtonLaws of motion formulator
- LeibnizBaroque-era polymath philosopher-mathematician
- Alexander PopeGeorgian era versifier
Jethro Tull · George Frideric Handel · Antonio Vivaldi · Johann Sebastian Bach · Daniel Defoe · Christopher Wren · Louis XIV · Marlborough
Excessively ornate or elaborate
- rococoExcessively elaborate in style
- harpsichordPlucked-string keyboard instrument
- St Paul's CathedralBaroque London church
- coffeehouseEstablishment serving brewed beverages
satire · pamphleteering · opera · patronage · aristocracy · salons · classicism · portraiture
Era prioritizing reason over dogma
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
- divine rightGod-granted ruling authority
- natural philosophyHistorical term for science
scientific revolution · mercantilism · absolutism · constitutional monarchy · deism · natural law · social contract · toleration
War of Spanish Succession
Eighteenth-century European dynastic conflict
- Treaty of Utrecht1713 succession war settlement
- Great Northern WarBaltic supremacy conflict, 1700s
- coffeehouse cultureSocial milieu of cafés
Queen Anne
English monarch, furniture period
- Jonathan SwiftDublin's savage satirist
- Isaac NewtonLaws of motion formulator
- LeibnizBaroque-era polymath philosopher-mathematician
Jethro Tull · George Frideric Handel · Antonio Vivaldi · Johann Sebastian Bach · Alexander Pope · Daniel Defoe · Christopher Wren · Louis XIV · Marlborough
baroque
Excessively ornate or elaborate
- rococoExcessively elaborate in style
- harpsichordPlucked-string keyboard instrument
- St Paul's CathedralBaroque London church
coffeehouse · satire · pamphleteering · opera · patronage · aristocracy · salons · classicism · portraiture · periwig
Enlightenment
Era prioritizing reason over dogma
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
- divine rightGod-granted ruling authority
natural philosophy · scientific revolution · mercantilism · absolutism · constitutional monarchy · deism · natural law · social contract · toleration · public sphere