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Period: 1492 to
Edad Moderna
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Blaise Pascal
Fue un matemático y físico francés, el cual inventó una máquina aritmética -
John Locke
John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, considered one of the most influential thinkers of English empiricism, and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism." -
Revoluciones de 1642 y 1688
Tras un descontento en la burguesía de Reino Unido e Irlanda por intentar ser gobernados por la dinastía Estuardo provocó estas revoluciones teniendo como resultado la expulsión de esa dinastía -
Independencia de las Provincias Unidas
En 1648 las Provincias Unidas se independizaron de España y establecieron un gobierno no absolutista -
Montesquieu
He was borned in La Brède in France, he was a French jurist, intellectual, historian and political philosopher whose main work, The Spirit of the Laws, written anonymously -
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, was a French writer, historian, philosopher and lawyer, who belonged to Freemasonry and is one of the main representatives of the Enlightenment. -
Felipe V (1700-1746)
The young Philip of Anjou became the head of the Monarchy of Spain which, like other European monarchies -
La guerra de Sucesión
Carlos II de España murió sin hijos. Se pelearon Austria y Francia por ver quién governaba. Tras la victoria de Francia, Felipe V fue rey, pero España perdió tierras. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a French-speaking Swiss polymath. He was at the same time a writer, pedagogue, philosopher, musician, botanist and naturalist. -
Adam smith
Adam Smith was an economist and philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, considered one of the greatest exponents of classical economics and the philosophy of economics. -
James watt
James Watt was a Scottish mechanical engineer, inventor and chemist. The improvements he made to the Newcomen engine gave rise to what is known as the steam engine, which would be fundamental in the development of the first Industrial Revolution, both in the United Kingdom and in the rest of the world. -
Olympe de Gouges
She was a French writer, playwright, pamphleteer and political philosopher, wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen in 1791. -
Robespierre
Maximilian Robespierre was a French lawyer, writer, orator and politician nicknamed "the Incorruptible." -
Carlos III
Charles III was a reformist king who modernized Spain: he reduced the power of the Church, boosted the economy with free trade, improved education, and built public works such as roads and canals. Everything so that Spain was more modern and less backward. -
Mary wollstonescraft
She was an English writer and philosopher. Considered a leading figure of the modern world. He wrote novels, stories, essays, treatises, a travel story and a book of children's literature. -
Napoleón Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his royal name Napoleon I, was a French soldier and politician of Italian origin born in Corsica who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. -
Luis XVI
Louis XVI of France was king of France and Navarre between 1774 and 1791, co-prince of Andorra between 1774 and 1793 and king of the French between 1791 and 1792. He was the last monarch before the fall of the monarchy by the French Revolution, as well as the last to exercise his powers as an absolute monarch. -
Period: to
Las Revoluciones Liberales
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George Stephenson
George Stephenson was a British mechanical engineer and civil engineer who built the world's first public railway line using steam locomotives and the first passenger railway line using steam locomotives. -
Carlos IV
Charles IV stopped the reforms that his father started because the French Revolution was scary, and his favorite Godoy was more concerned with wars and power. The nobility and the Church are happy with the break. It all ended in the Aranjuez Mutiny and Carlos abdicating. -
George Washington
George Washington was the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and commander in chief of the revolutionary Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809. He is considered one of the founding fathers of the nation. His eminence comes because he was the main author of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. -
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French anarchist philosopher, politician and revolutionary and, along with Bakunin, Kropotkin and Malatesta, one of the fathers of the historical anarchist movement and its first economic trend, mutualism. -
Mijail Bakunin
Mikhail Aleksándrovich Bakunin, known as Mikhail Bakunin, was a Russian political theorist, philosopher, sociologist and anarchist revolutionary. He is one of the best-known thinkers of the first generation of anarchist philosophers along with Piotr Kropotkin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Carlo Cafiero and Errico Malatesta. -
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx, known in the Hispanic world as Carlos Enrique Marx, was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, intellectual and communist politician of Jewish origin. -
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels, also known in Spanish as Federico Engels, was a German philosopher, political scientist, sociologist, anthropologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary communist and socialist theorist. He was a friend and collaborator of Karl Marx. Engels said of him: "Next to Marx I always played second fiddle." -
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electrical power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and movies. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the sixteenth president of the United States of America from March 4, 1861 until his assassination in 1865.