late 18th century
Pre-industrial Western period
Late 18th century refers to roughly the final three decades of the 1700s—typically 1770 to 1799.
The phrase appears in historical and art-historical contexts to date events, styles, or artifacts: a late 18th century farmhouse, late 18th century political thought.
The American and French revolutions fall within this period.
- American RevolutionColonial separation from Britain
- founding fathersMale originators of institutions
- NeoclassicismRevival of ancient aesthetics
- grand tourElite educational European journey
- powdered wigsFlour-dusted formal hairpieces
Haitian Revolution · Bastille Day · Enlightenment · Age of Reason · Constitutional Convention · colonial America · Declaration of Independence · French Revolution · Utilitarianism · Boston Tea Party · Mozart · chamber music · Georgian era · Louis XVI · Industrial Revolution · slave trade · Adam Smith · Marie Antoinette
late 18th centurycontemporary era
Current historical period
modern times · distant future · ancient times · prehistoric era · early 18th century
late 18th centuryVictorian era
Britain under its longest-reigning queen
medieval period · mid-20th century · early 18th century · antiquity · mid-19th century
late 18th centurycontemporary
Of the present age
modern era · 21st century · antiquity · prehistoric times · ancient times
late, later, latest, lately, lateness, belated, belatedly, century, centuries