18th century
Revolutionary War period
The 18th century spans the years 1701 to 1800, though in casual usage people often mean the 1700s.
The term typically evokes the Enlightenment, colonial expansion, and revolutionary movements: 18th-century philosophy, 18th-century furniture.
As an adjective, usually hyphenated: an 18th-century mansion.
- EncyclopédieComprehensive Enlightenment-era French reference
- BaroqueOrnate artistic period
- EnlightenmentEra prioritizing reason over dogma
- American RevolutionColonial separation from Britain
- founding fathersMale originators of institutions
Adam Smith · satire · Voltaire · Mozart · chamber music · Haitian Revolution · Immanuel Kant · Benjamin Franklin · colonial America · Age of Reason · natural philosophy · French Revolution · Scientific Revolution · coffeehouse culture · grand tour · candlelit · Industrial Revolution · Catherine the Great
- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- explorationexploration, explore, expedition, expeditions, voyage
- German LiteratureGoethe, Mann, Kafka, Franz Kafka, Rilke
- FreemasonryMason, Masons, Freemasons, Freemasonry, lodge
- chapbookschapbooks, booklet, booklets, blue books, cheap print
18th century21st century
Years 2001 to 2100
modern era · 20th century · ancient times · antiquity · Middle Ages
18th centuryDark Ages
Post-Roman European decline
digital age · information age · medieval period · Victorian era · atomic age
18th centurydigital age
Epoch of computerized life
atomic age · machine age · computer age · prehistoric era · ancient world