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Chronology

1723–1790 Adam Smith

1724–1804 Immanuel Kant

1729–1797 Edmund Burke

1739–1740 Hume publishes A Treatise of Human Nature

1741 Roman Catholic Church condemns slavery

1748–1832 Jeremy Bentham

1759 Voltaire publishes Candide

1768–1834 Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher

1770–1831 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1775–1854 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

1788–1860 Arthur Schopenhauer

1789–1799 French Revolution

1804–1872 Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

1806–1873 John Stuart Mill

1806 The Holy Roman Empire dissolves

1809–1882 Charles Darwin

1813–1855 Sǿren Kierkegaard

1815 End of the Napoleonic Wars

1817–1892 Bahá’u’lláh, founder of the Baha’i faith

1818–1883 Karl Marx

1819–1850 The Báb, preached the coming of Bahá’u’lláh the prophet

1833 Slavery abolished in the British Empire

1838–1900 Henry Sidgwick

1839–1914 Charles Peirce

1842–1910 William James

1844–1900 Friedrich Nietzsche

1844–1921 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, son of Bahá’u’lláh, consolidated the foundation

of the Baha’i faith

1846–1924 F. H. Bradley

1856–1939 Sigmund Freud

1859 Darwin publishes “Origin of Species”

1859–1941 Henri Bergson

1859–1952 John Dewey

1861–1865 American Civil War

1861–1947 Alfred North Whitehead

1861 Serfdom abolished in Russia

1866 Mary Baker Eddy founds Christian Science

1868 End of Feudal Rule in Japan

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