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Centuries:	17th century · 18th century · 19th century
Decades:	1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s
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The 18th century lasted from 1701 to 1800 in the Gregorian calendar, in accordance with the Anno Domini/Common Era numbering system.

However, historians sometimes specifically define the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715-1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution with an emphasis on directly interconnected events.^[1][2] To historians who expand the century to include larger historical movements, the "long" 18th century may run from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the battle of Waterloo in 1815^[3] or even later.^[4]

Contents 1 Events 1.1 1700s 1.2 1710s 1.3 1720s 1.4 1730s 1.5 1740s 1.6 1750s 1.7 1760s 1.8 1770s 1.9 1780s 1.10 1790s 2 World leaders, politicians, military 2.1 Show business, theatre, entertainers 2.2 Musicians, composers 2.3 Visual artists, painters, sculptors, printmakers 2.4 Writers, poets 2.5 Philosophers, theologians 2.6 Scientists, researchers 3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 4 Literary achievements 5 References 6 Decades and years

[edit] Events

[edit] 1700s

• 1700: Bridge of the Gods forms across the Columbia River.
• 1700-21: Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
• 1701-1714: War of the Spanish Succession was a conflict which involved most of Europe.^[5]
• 1701-1702: The Daily Courant and the The Norwich Post becomes the first daily newspapers in England.
• 1702: Forty-seven Ronin attack Kira Yoshinaka and then commit seppuku in Japan.
• 1702-1715: Camisard Rebellion in France.
• 1703: Saint Petersburg founded by Peter the Great. Russian capital until 1918.
• 1703-1711: The Rákóczi Uprising against the Habsburg Monarchy.
• 1704: End of Japan's Genroku period.
• 1707: Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments, thus establishing The Kingdom of Great Britain.^[6]
• 1707: After Aurangzeb's death, the Mughal Empire enters a long decline and the Maratha Empire slowly replaces it.
• 1707: Mount Fuji erupts in Japan.
• 1707: War of 27 years between the Marathas and Mughals ends in India.
• 1708-1709: Famine killed one-third of East Prussia's population.
• 1708: The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies and English Company Trading to the East Indies merged to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies.
• 1709: Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan.
• 1709: Charles XII of Sweden flees to Ottoman Empire after Peter I of Russia defeats his army at the Battle of Poltava.

[edit] 1710s

• 1710-1711: Ottoman Empire fights Russia in the Russo-Turkish War
• 1713-1714: Tarabai establishes rival Maratha Empire government in Kolhapur against Chattrapati Shahu.
• 1714: Accession of George I, Elector of Hanover, to the throne of Great Britain.
• 1715: First Jacobite rebellion breaks out
• 1715: Louis XIV died leaving France deep in debt.
• 1715: Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism incompatible.
• 1716: Establishment of the Sikh Confederacy along the India Pakistan border.
• 1718: City of New Orleans founded by the French in North America
• 1718: Blackbeard is killed by Robert Maynard in a North Carolina inlet on the inner side of Ocracoke Island
• 1718-1730: Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire
• 1719: Spanish attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails.

[edit] 1720s

• 1720: The South Sea Bubble
• 1720: Spanish military embarks on the Villasur expedition from Mexico and travel into the Great Plains
• 1720-1721: The Great Plague of Marseille
• 1721: Robert Walpole became the first Prime Minister of Great Britain (de facto).
• 1721: Treaty of Nystad signed, ending the Great Northern War.
• 1721: Kangxi Emperor bans Christian Missionaries because of Pope Clement XI's decree.
• 1721: Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church
• 1722: Afghans conquered Iran, ending the Safavid dynasty.
• 1722: Kangxi Emperor of China died.
• 1722: Bartholomew Roberts is killed in a sea battle off the African coast.
• 1722-23: Russo-Persian War
• 1722-1725: Controversy over William Wood's halfpence leads to the Drapier's Letters and begins the Irish economic independence from England movement.
• 1723: Slavery abolished in Russia. Peter the Great converted the household slaves into house serfs.^[7]
• 1723-1730: The "Great Disaster" - an invasion of Kazakh territories by the Dzungars.
• 1725: The Fulani nomads took complete control of Fuuta Jallon and set up the first of many Fulani jihad states to come.^[8]
• 1726: The enormous Chinese encyclopedia Gujin Tushu Jicheng of over 100 million written Chinese characters in over 800,000 pages is printed in 60 different copies using copper-based Chinese movable type printing.
• 1729-1735: Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin the Methodism in England

[edit] 1730s

• 1730: Mahmud I takes over Ottoman Empire after civilian unrest.
• 1730-1760: First Great Awakening takes place in Great Britain and North America.
• 1732-1734: Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.^[9]
• 1733-1738: War of the Polish Succession.
• 1735-1739: Russo-Turkish War.
• 1735-1799: The Qianlong Emperor of China oversaw a huge expansion in territory.
• 1736: Nadir Shah assumed title of Shah of Persia and founded the Afsharid dynasty. Ruled until his death in 1747.
• 1736: Qing Dynasty Chinese court painters recreate Zhang Zeduan's classic panoramic painting, Along the River During Qingming Festival.
• 1738-1756: Famine across the Sahel, half the population of Timbuktu died.^[10]
• 1738: Pope Clement XII issues the Eminenti Apostolatus Specula prohibiting Catholics from becoming Freemasons.
• 1739: Nadir Shah defeated the Mughals and sacked Delhi.
• 1739: Great Britain and Spain fight the War of Jenkins' Ear in the Caribbean.

[edit] 1740s

• 1740: Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia.
• 1740: British attempt to capture St. Augustine, Florida but lose to the Spanish during the Siege of St. Augustine.
• 1740-1741: Famine in Ireland killed ten per cent of the population.
• 1740-1748: War of the Austrian Succession
• 1741: Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands.
• 1741: Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery.
• 1744: The First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud.^[11]
• 1744: French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails
• 1744-1748: The First Carnatic War fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India.
• 1745: Second Jacobite Rebellion began by Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland.
• 1747: Ahmed Shah Durrani founded the Durrani Empire in modern day Afghanistan.
• 1748: Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession and First Carnatic War.
• 1748-1754: The Second Carnatic War fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India

[edit] 1750s

• 1750: Peak of the Little Ice Age
• 1754: Treaty of Pondicherry ends Second Carnatic War and recognizes Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah as Nawab of the Carnatic.
• 1754–1763, The French and Indian War, Fought in the U.S. and Canada mostly between the French and French allies and the English and English allies. The North American chapter of the Seven Years' War.
• 1755: The Lisbon earthquake
• 1756-1763: Seven Years' War fought among European powers in various theaters around the world.
• 1756-1763: The Third Carnatic War fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India.
• 1757: Battle of Plassey signaled the beginning of formal British rule in India after years of commercial activity under the auspices of the East India Company.
• 1758: British colonel James Wolfe issues the Wolfe's Manifesto
• 1759: French commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and British commander James Wolfe die during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

[edit] 1760s

• 1760: George III became King of Britain.
• 1760: Zand dynasty founded in Iran
• 1761: Maratha Empire defeated at Battle of Panipat
• 1762-1796: Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.
• 1763: Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War and Third Carnatic War
• 1763: Kingdom of Mysore conquers the Kingdom of Keladi
• 1765: Stamp Act introduced into the American colonies by the UK Parliament.
• 1766-1799: Anglo-Mysore Wars
• 1767: Burmese conquered the Ayutthaya kingdom.
• 1768: Gurkhas conquered Nepal.
• 1768-1774: Russo-Turkish War
• 1769: Spanish missionaries established the first of 21 missions in California.
• 1769-1770: James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia
• 1769-1773: The Bengal famine of 1770 killed one third of the Bengal population.

[edit] 1770s

• 1770-1771: Famine in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands.
• 1771: The Plague Riot in Moscow.
• 1772: Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état and takes big political power, becoming almost an absolute monarch.
• 1772: Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
• 1772-1779: Maratha Empire fights England and Raghunathrao's forces during the First Anglo-Maratha War
• 1772-1795: The Partitions of Poland ended the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and erased Poland from the map for 123 years.
• 1773-1775: The Pugachev's Rebellion was the largest peasant revolt in Russia's history.
• 1773: East India Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle Opium into China.
• 1775 John Harrison H4 and Larcum Kendall K1 Marine chronometers are used to measure longitude by James Cook on his Second voyage (1772-1775)
• 1775-1782: First Anglo-Maratha War
• 1775-1783: American Revolutionary War
• 1776: United States Declaration of Independence ratified by the Continental Congress.
• 1778: James Cook becomes first European on the Hawaiian Islands.
• 1779-1879: Xhosa Wars between British and Boer settlers and the Xhosas in South African Republic

[edit] 1780s

• 1781: Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.
• 1781-1785: Serfdom abolished in the Austrian monarchy (first step; second step in 1848)
• 1783: Famine in Iceland caused by Laki (volcano) eruption.
• 1783: Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.
• 1783 The treaty of Paris formally ends the American War of Independence.
• 1785-1791: Imam Sheikh Mansur, a Chechen warrior and Muslim mystic, led a coalition of Muslim Caucasian tribes from throughout the Caucasus in a holy war against the Russian invaders.^[12]
• 1785-1795: Northwest Indian War between the United States and Native Americans
• 1787: Freed slaves from London founded Freetown in present-day Sierra Leone.
• 1787: Kansei Reforms instituted in Japan by Matsudaira Sadanobu.
• 1787-1792: Russo-Turkish War
• 1788: First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.
• 1789: George Washington elected President of the United States. Served until 1797.
• 1789: Great Britain and Spain dispute the Nootka Sound during the Nootka Crisis.
• 1789-1799: The French Revolution

[edit] 1790s

• 1790: Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact
• 1791 The Constitutional Act (Or Canada Act) creates the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada in British North America.
• 1791-1795: George Vancouver explores the world during the Vancouver Expedition.
• 1791-1804: The Haitian Revolution
• 1792-1815: The Great French War started as the French Revolutionary Wars which lead into the Napoleonic Wars.
• 1792: New York Stock & Exchange Board founded.
• 1792: King Gustav III of Sweden was assassinated by a conspiracy of noblemen.
• 1793: Upper Canada bans slavery.
• 1793: The largest yellow fever epidemic in American history killed as many as 5,000 people in Philadelphia—roughly 10% of the population.^[13]
• 1793-1796: Revolt in the Vendée against the French Republic at the time of the Revolution.
• 1794: Polish revolt
• 1794: Jay's Treaty concluded between Great Britain and the United States, by which the Western Posts in the Great Lakes are returned to the U.S., and commerce between the two countries is regulated.
• 1794: Qajar dynasty founded in Iran after replacing the Zand dynasty.
• 1795: Pinckney's Treaty between the United States and Spain granted the Mississippi Territory to the US.
• 1795: The Marseillaise officially adopted as the French national anthem.
• 1795: Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans at the Battle of Nu'uanu.^[14]
• 1796: Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination. Smallpox killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year during the 18th century (including five reigning monarchs).^[15]
• 1796: Battle of Montenotte. Engagement in the War of the First Coalition. Napoleon Bonaparte's first victory as an army commander.
• 1796: British ejected Dutch from Ceylon.
• 1796: Mungo Park, backed by the African Association, is the first European to set eyes on the Niger River in Africa.
• 1796-1804: The White Lotus Rebellion against the Manchu Dynasty in China.
• 1797: Napoleon's invasion and partition of the Republic of Venice ended over 1,000 years of independence for the Serene Republic.
• 1798: The Irish Rebellion failed to overthrow British rule in Ireland.
• 1798-1800: Quasi-War between the United States and France.
• 1799: Napoleon staged a coup d'état and became dictator of France.
• 1799: Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
• 1799: The assassination of the 14th Tu'i Kanokupolu, Tukuʻaho, plunges Tonga into half a century of civil war.

[edit] World leaders, politicians, military

See also: Founding Fathers of the United States

• John Adams, American statesman
• Samuel Adams, American statesman
• Ahmad Shah Abdali, Afghan King
• Ahmed III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
• Hyder Ali, Ruler of Mysore
• Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary Army
• Anne, Queen of Great Britain
• Marie Antoinette, Austrian-born Queen of France
• Augustus III, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Lithuania
• Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor
• Boromakot, King of Ayutthaya
• Boromaracha V, King of Ayutthaya
• William Cavendish, Anglo-Irish politician
• John Carteret, Anglo-Irish politician
• Catherine the Great, Tsaritsa of Russia
• Charles III, King of Spain, Naples, and Sicily
• Charles VI, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, King of Bohemia and Hungary
• Charles XII, King of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends;
• Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary
• Georges Danton, French revolutionary leader
• Farrukhsiyar, Emperor of Mughal
• Ferdinand I, King of Naples, Sicily, and the Two Sicilies
• Benjamin Franklin, American leader, scientist and statesman
• Juan Franscisco, Spanish naval officer and explorer
• Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends
• Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
• George I, King of Great Britain and Ireland
• George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland
• George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland
• Robert Gray, American revolutionary, merchant, and explorer
• Gustav III, King of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends
• Gyeongjong, King of Joseon Dynasty
• Abdul Hamid I, Sultan of Ottoman Empire
• Alexander Hamilton, American statesman
• Patrick Henry, American statesman
• Emperor Higashiyama, Emperor of Japan
• John Jay, American statesman
• Thomas Jefferson, American statesman
• Jeongjo, King of Joseon Dynasty
• John Paul Jones, American naval commander
• Joseph I, King of Portugal
• Joseph II, Austrian Emperor
• Kangxi Emperor, Chinese Emperor
• Karim Khan, Shah of Iran and King of Persia
• Marquis de Lafayette, Continental Army officer
• Louis XIV, King of France
• Louis XV, King of France
• Louis XVI, King of France
• Louis XVII, imprisoned King of France, never ruled
• James Madison, American statesman
• Madhavrao I, Peshwa/Prime Minister of Maratha Empire
• Madhavrao I Scindia, Marathan leader
• Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman Empire
• Alessandro Malaspina, Spanish explorer
• George Mason, American statesman
• Michikinikwa, Miami chief and warrior
• José Moñino y Redondo, Spanish statesman
• Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French officer
• Mustafa III, Sultan of Ottoman Empire
• Nadir Shah, King of Persia
• Nakamikado, Emperor of Japan
• Horatio Nelson, British admiral
• Nanasaheb, Peshwa/Prime Minister of Maratha Empire
• Shivappa Nayaka, King of Keladi Nayaka
• Osman III, Sultan of Ottaman Empire
• Peter I (Peter the Great), Tsar of Russian
• Philip V, King of Spain
• Pontiac, Ottawa chief and warrior
• Qianlong, Emperor of China
• Rajaram II of Satara, Monarch of the Maratha Confederacy
• Francis II Rákóczi, Prince of Hungary and Transylvania, revolutionary leader
• Tadeusz Rejtan, Polish politician
• Paul Revere, American revolutionary leader and silversmith
• Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary leader
• Betsy Ross, American flag maker
• Shah Rukh of Persia, King of Persia.
• John Russell, Anglo-Irish politician
• Lionel Sackville, Anglo-Irish politician
• Sebastião de Melo, Prime Minister of Portugal
• Chattrapati Shahu, Emperor of Maratha Empire
• Selim III, Sultan of Ottoman Empire
• Charles Edward Stuart, English Jacobite exile
• Sukjong, King of Joseon Dynasty
• Alexander Suvorov, Russian military leader
• Maria Theresa, Austrian Empress
• Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese Shogun
• Tokugawa Ienobu, Japanese Shogun
• Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese Shogun
• Tokugawa Ietsugu, Japanese Shogun
• Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese Shogun
• Tokugawa Yoshimune, Japanese Shogun
• Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haitian revolutionary leader
• Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian revolutionary
• George Vancouver, British Captain and explorer
• Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of Great Britain
• George Washington, American general and first President of the United States
• James Wolfe, British officer
• Yeongjo, King of Joseon Dynasty

[edit] Show business, theatre, entertainers

See also: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Haymarket Theatre, and Sichuan opera

• Barton Booth, actor
• Colley Cibber, actor, poet, playwright
• Thomas Doggett, actor
• David Garrick, actor
• John Gay, English dramatist and poet
• Charles Johnson, English playwright
• Charles Macklin, actor
• Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist, playwright
• John O'Keeffee, Irish playwright
• Anne Oldfield, English actress
• Hannah Pritchard, English actress
• Hester Santlow, English actress, ballerina, dancer
• Kong Shangren, Chinese dramatist, poet
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright
• John Small, English cricketer
• Edward "Lumpy" Stevens, English cricketer
• Robert Wilks, English actor
• Wang Yun, Chinese playwright, poet

[edit] Musicians, composers

Main articles: List of Classical era composers and List of Baroque composers

• Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer
• Samuel Arnold, English composer and musician
• Nidhu Babu, Indian and Bengali musician and composer
• Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer
• François Couperin, French composer
• William Cowper, English hymnist and poet
• Dede Efendi, Turkish/Ottoman composer
• Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer
• Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist.
• George Frideric Handel, German-English composer
• Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer
• Hampartsoum Limondjian, Armenian/Ottoman composer
• Kali Mirza, Bengali composer
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer
• Johann Pachelbel, German composer, teacher
• François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess master
• Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer
• Bharatchandra Ray, Bengali composer, musician, and poet
• Sadarang, Hindustani composer
• Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer.
• Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker
• Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer
• Isaac Watts, English hymnist

[edit] Visual artists, painters, sculptors, printmakers

Main articles: History of painting, Rococo, and Neoclassicism

• Michel Benoist, French painter, architect, missionary in China
• William Blake, English artist and poet
• Edmé Bouchardon, French sculptor
• François Boucher, French painter
• Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian painter, architect, missionary in China
• Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter
• John Singleton Copley, American painter
• Jacques-Louis David, French painter
• Étienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter
• Thomas Gainsborough, English painter
• Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter
• Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter
• Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock printer
• William Hogarth, English painter and engraver
• Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor, student of his father
• Jean-Louis Lemoyne, French sculptor
• Robert Le Lorrain, French sculptor
• Yuan Mei, Chinese painter, poet, essayist
• Antoine Ignace Melling, French-German painter, architect
• Gai Qi, Chinese painter, poet
• Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Italian-born Russian architect
• Joshua Reynolds, English painter
• Gilbert Stuart, American painter
• Nishikawa Sukenobu, Japanese printmaker, teacher
• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian painter
• Jiang Tingxi, Chinese artist and scholar
• Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese printmaker and painter
• Antoine Watteau, French painter

[edit] Writers, poets

• Jane Austen, English writer
• Pierre Beaumarchais, French writer
• Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and literary critic
• James Boswell, Scottish biographer
• Frances Burney, English novelist
• Robert Burns, Scottish poet
• Giacomo Casanova, Venetian adventurer, writer and womanizer
• Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French writer
• Daniel Defoe, English novelist and journalist
• Liang Desheng, Chinese poet and writer
• Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist
• Henry Fielding, English novelist
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer
• Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish writer, poet, children's writer, and playwright
• Thomas Gray, English poet, scholar, and educator
• Eliza Haywood, English writer
• Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer
• Samuel Johnson, British writer, lexicographer, poet, and literary critic
• Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian writer
• Charlotte Lennox, English novelist and poet
• Matthew Lewis, English novelist and playwright
• Sadhak Kamalakanta, Indian poet
• Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist
• Jean-Paul Marat, French journalist
• Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Spanish writer
• Yuan Mei, Chinese poet, scholar and artist
• Honoré Mirabeau, French writer and politician
• John Newbery, English children's literature publisher
• Wen Peixin, Chinese novelist and poet
• Alexander Pope, English poet
• Ann Radcliffe, English novelist
• Samuel Richardson, English novelist
• Li Ruzhen, Chinese novelist
• Marquis de Sade, French writer and philosopher
• Ramprasad Sen, Bengali poet and singer
• Friedrich Schiller, German writer
• Walter Scott, Scottish novelest and poet
• Christopher Smart, English poet and actor
• Robert Southey, English poet and biographer
• Hester Thrale, English memoirist
• Charlotte Turner Smith, English writer
• Pu Songling, Chinese short story writer
• Laurence Sterne, Anglo-Irish writer
• Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist and Church of Ireland Dean
• Ueda Akinari, Japanese writer
• Voltaire, French writer and philosopher
• Horace Walpole, English writer and politician
• Mary Wollstonecraft, British writer and feminist
• Cao Xueqin, Chinese writer

[edit] Philosophers, theologians

• Arai Hakuseki, Japanese scholar, writer and politician
• Benedict XIII, Roman Catholic Pope
• Benedict XIV, Roman Catholic Pope
• Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and reformer
• George Berkeley, Irish empiricist philosopher
• Edmund Burke, British statesman and philosopher
• Clement XI, Roman Catholic Pope
• Clement XII, Roman Catholic Pope
• Clement XIII, Roman Catholic Pope
• Clement XIV, Roman Catholic Pope
• Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Denis Diderot, French writer and philosopher
• William Godwin, English philosopher and novelist
• Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn, German writer, Jewish theologian, translator, and professor
• Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, writer, and critic
• Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury
• David Hume, Scottish philosopher
• Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Innocent XIII, Roman Catholic Pope
• Immanuel Kant, German philosopher
• Kamo no Mabuchi, Japanese philosopher
• William Law, English theologian
• Alphonsus Liguori, Italian bishop, founder of Redemptorists, Saint
• Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher
• Charles de Secondat (Montesquieu), French thinker
• John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philosopher and scholar
• Thomas Paine, English philosopher
• Elihu Palmer, American deist
• Joseph Perl, German writer, Jewish theologian, and educator
• Pius VI, Roman Catholic Pope
• John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer and philosopher
• Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Sugita Genpaku, Japanese scholar and translator
• Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist, thinker and mystic
• Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Christian Thomasius, German philosopher and jurist
• Baal Shem Tov, Ukrainian rabbi
• Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab, Arab Islamic theologian and founder of Wahhabism
• William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury
• John Wesley, English theologian, founder of Methodism
• Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, German religious writer and bishop

[edit] Scientists, researchers