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Great Lives from History: The Eighteenth Century

Table of Contents

Asia in the 18th Century




Africa in the 18th Century




North America, 1775




South America in the Eighteenth Century




Europe in the Eighteenth Century




Fanny Abington




Maria Gaetana Agnesi




Ahmed III




Alaungpaya




John André




Second Duke of Argyll




Francis Asbury




Mary Astell




Isaac Backus




Jean-Sylvain Bailly




Anna Barbauld




Hester Bateman




Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais




Cesare Beccaria




Benedict XIV




Joseph Black




Claude Alexandre de Bonneval




Joseph Boulogne




Fanny Burney




Joseph Butler




Cao Xueqin




Lazare Carnot




Caroline




Georgiana Cavendish




Hester Chapone




Charles VI




Queen Charlotte




Marquise du Châtelet




Chikamatsu Monzaemon




Étienne François de Choiseul




Chong Son




Sarah Churchill




Étienne Bonnot de Condillac




Hannah Cowley




Dai Zhen




Jean Dauberval




Aagje Deken




Joseph-François Dupleix




Elizabeth Petrovna




Olaudah Equiano




Eugene of Savoy




Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit




Lord Edward Fitzgerald




Maria Anne Fitzherbert




André-Hercule de Fleury




Frederick I




Frederick William I




José de Gálvez




Elbridge Gerry




Henry Grattan




Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval




Hakuin




Claude-Adrien Helvétius




Caroline Lucretia Herschel




William Herschel




Paul-Henri-Dietrich d’Holbach




Honda Toshiaki




Hyder Ali




Karīm Khān Zand




Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz




Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock




Tadeusz Kościuszko




Ignacy Krasicki




Sophie von La Roche




Charlotte Lennox




Alain-René Lesage




Levni




Antônio Francisco Lisboa




Little Turtle




Louis XV




Louis XVI




Catherine Macaulay




Flora MacDonald




Mahmud I




Mary de la Rivière Manley




Andreas Sigismund Marggraf




Moses Mendelssohn




Mentewab




Marquis de Montalembert




Louis-Joseph de Montcalm




Hannah More




Gouverneur Morris




Mustafa III




Nādir Shāh




Nanny




Nguyen Hue




Ogyū Sorai




Anne Oldfield




Aleksey Grigoryevich Orlov




Grigori Grigoryevich Orlov




William Paley




Philip V




Pius VI




Marquěs de Pombal




Madame de Pompadour




Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin




Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev




François Quesnay




Ann Radcliffe




Guillaume-Thomas Raynal




Samuel Richardson




Mary Robinson




Marquis de Sade




Comte de Saxe




Junípero Serra




Anna Seward




Richard Brinsley Sheridan




Sarah Siddons




Sīdī al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī




Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès




John Graves Simcoe




Adam Smith




Richard Steele




William Stukeley




Suzuki Harunobu




Taksin




Thanadelthur




Tokugawa Yoshimune




Wolfe Tone




John Trumbull




Tupac Amaru II




Vaḥīd Bihbahānī




Marquis de Vauvenargues




Charles Gravier de Vergennes




Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb




Shāh Walī Allāh




Wang Zhenyi




Mercy Otis Warren




Anthony Wayne




Charles Wesley




Benjamin West




Phillis Wheatley




George Whitefield




Peg Woffington




Yongzheng




Rulers and Heads of State




Robert and James Adam




Abigail Adams




John Adams




Samuel Adams




Joseph Addison




Jean le Rond d’Alembert




Ethan Allen




Lord Amherst




Queen Anne




Lord Anson




Sir Richard Arkwright




Benedict Arnold




Ba‘al Shem Tov




Johann Sebastian Bach




Sir Joseph Banks




Benjamin Banneker




Johann Bernhard Basedow




John Baskerville




Jeremy Bentham




Vitus Jonassen Bering




George Berkeley




Sir William Blackstone




William Blake




William Bligh




Luigi Boccherini




Germain Boffrand




First Viscount Bolingbroke




Daniel Boone




James Boswell




Louis-Antoine de Bougainville




Matthew Boulton




Joseph Brant




James Brindley




Lancelot Brown




James Bruce




Comte de Buffon




Edmund Burke




Charles Burney




Robert Burns




Canaletto




Sir Guy Carleton




Charles Carroll




Casanova




Catherine the Great




Henry Cavendish




Jean-Siméon Chardin




Charles XII




Charles III




Samuel Chase




Qianlong




George Rogers Clark




Sir Henry Clinton




Robert Clive




Marquis de Condorcet




James Cook




John Singleton Copley




First Marquess Cornwallis




François Couperin




Georges Danton




Abraham Darby




Daniel Defoe




John Dickinson




Denis Diderot




Jonathan Edwards




Elijah ben Solomon




Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach




First Baron Erskine




Leonhard Euler




Adam Ferguson




Johann Gottlieb Fichte




Henry Fielding




John Fitch




Charles James Fox




Jean-Honoré Fragonard




Benjamin Franklin




Frederick the Great




Thomas Gage




Thomas Gainsborough




Luigi Galvani




David Garrick




George I




George II




George III




Edward Gibbon




Christoph Gluck




First Earl of Godolphin




William Godwin




Johann Wolfgang von Goethe




Oliver Goldsmith




Francisco de Goya




Nathanael Greene




Alexander Hamilton




John Hancock




George Frideric Handel




James Hargreaves




Warren Hastings




Nicholas Hawksmoor




Joseph Haydn




Patrick Henry




Johann Gottfried Herder




Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt




William Hogarth




Richard Howe




William Howe




David Hume




Thomas Hutchinson




John Jay




Thomas Jefferson




Edward Jenner




Samuel Johnson




John Paul Jones




Joseph II




Immanuel Kant




Angelica Kauffmann




John Kay




Joseph-Louis Lagrange




Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier




Thomas Lawrence




Nicolas Leblanc




Ann Lee




Gotthold Ephraim Lessing




Carolus Linnaeus




Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov




Alexander McGillivray




Sir Alexander Mackenzie




Colin Maclaurin




James Madison




First Earl of Mansfield




Jean-Paul Marat




Maria Theresa




Marie-Antoinette




First Duke of Marlborough




George Mason




Cotton Mather




Increase Mather




Comte de Mirabeau




Gaspard Monge




Mary Wortley Montagu




Montesquieu




Jacques-Étienne and Joseph-Michel Montgolfier




Robert Morris




Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart




William Murdock




Jacques Necker




John Newbery




Thomas Newcomen




Lord North




James Edward Oglethorpe




Duc d’Orléans




Thomas Paine




Charles Willson Peale




Henry Pelham




Peter III




Peter the Great




Arthur Phillip




William Pitt the Elder




William Pitt the Younger




Pontiac




Alexander Pope




Joseph Priestley




Jean-Philippe Rameau




Paul Revere




Sir Joshua Reynolds




Robespierre




Comte de Rochambeau




George Rodney




John Roebuck




George Romney




Betsy Ross




Jean-Jacques Rousseau




Benjamin Rush




Louis de Saint-Just




Alessandro Scarlatti




Friedrich Schiller




Samuel Sewall




Granville Sharp




Daniel Shays




Roger Sherman




Lazzaro Spallanzani




Georg Ernst Stahl




First Earl Stanhope




Antonio Stradivari




Gilbert Stuart




Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov




Emanuel Swedenborg




Jonathan Swift




Georg Philipp Telemann




Giovanni Battista Tiepolo




Toussaint Louverture




Jethro Tull




Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot




Sir John Vanbrugh




George Vancouver




Giambattista Vico




Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun




Antonio Vivaldi




Alessandro Volta




Voltaire




Robert Walpole




George Washington




James Watt




Antoine Watteau




Josiah Wedgwood




John Wesley




Eli Whitney




William Wilberforce




John Wilkes




John Wilkinson




James Wilson




Johann Joachim Winckelmann




John Witherspoon




James Wolfe




Mary Wollstonecraft




John Peter Zenger




Count von Zinzendorf




Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov




Mungo Park




Madame de Staël




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