GEORGE III (a)
1760 – 1783
1760 – 1767
The Battle of Panipat (Afghanistan) -
Chief Pontiac (Ottawas) -
G3a-
1760 – 1767
1768 – 1775
1768 – 1775
The Boston Massacre (American Colonies) -
Warren Hastings (India) -
(American Colonies -
Catherine the Great (Grigory Potemkin) -
Lexington, Concord & Bunker Hill (Paul Revere) -
1776 – 1783
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
(causes of diseases)
Franz Anton Mesmer
(mesmerism)
Rousseau
(Emily)
Johann Pestalozzi
(child care)
John Harrison
(chronometer)
James Hargreaves
(spinning jenny)
Von Gluck
(Iphigenia in Tauris)
William Boyce
(Church music)
Robert Adam
(Adam style)
Greek Revival
(neoclassicism)
William Chambers
(Kew pagoda)
Gainsborough
(The Blue Boy)
“Beau Nash” (Bath)
Richard Wilson
(Cader Idris)
John Robert Cozens
(Mount Vesuvius)
Josiah Wedgwood
(“Queen’s Ware”)
Sevres (porcelain)
Fragonard (The Swing)
Herbert Robert
(classical ruins)
Jean Baptiste Greuze
(simple family life)
George Stubbs (horses)
Horace Walpole
(Gothic Novels)
Thomas Chatterton
(Rowley poems)
Oliver Goldsmith
(Vicar of Wakefield)
Laurence Sterne
(Tristam Shandy)
Gotthold Lessing
(German drama)
Georges Buffon
(natural history)
Lazzaro Spallanzani
(“vital atoms”)
James Brindley
(canal building)
Richard Price
(Civil Liberty)
Samuel Johnson
(Western Isles)
Fanny Burney
(Evelina)
James Boswell
(Life of Johnson)
Hester Thrale
(on Johnson)
“Blue Stockings”
Goethe & Herder
(Sturm und Drang)
Beaumarchais
(Marriage of Figaro)
Sheridan (The Rivals)
Joseph Banks
(naturalist)
Scheele (oxygen)
Joseph Priestly
(modern chemistry)
Joseph Black
(chemistry)
Henry Cavendish
(density of Earth)
Joshua Reynolds
(portraits)
Angelica Kauffmann
(graceful style)
Henri Fuseli
(The Nightmare)
Johann Zoffany
(Uffizi gallery)
Joseph Wright
(The Air Pump)
William Hodges
(Cook voyage)
Jean Henri Riesener
(cabinet maker)
David Roentgen
(cabinet maker)
James Cook
(Australia)
Bougainville
(world tour)
James Bruce
(Blue Nile)
Carsten Niebuhr
(Arabia)
Baskerville & Bodoni (typeface)
William Blackstone
(Laws of England)
John Howard
(prison reform)
Joseph Cugnot
(automobile)
Richard Arkwright
(factory system)
1776 – 1783
General George Washington -
American Declaration of Independence -
French-
Great Siege of Gibraltar -
Tupac Amaru II (Incas) -
Battle of Yorktown (British surrender) -
Antoine Lavoisier
(chemical elements)
Claude-
(State of Chemistry)
James Watt
(rotary action)
John Wilkinson
(machine tools)
David Bushnell
(submarine)
Samuel Crompton
(spinning mule)
Montgolfier Brothers
(first manned flight)
Jacques Charles
(hydrogen balloon)
Abraham Darby
(cast-
John Smeaton
(Eddystone lighthouse)
Adam Smith
(Wealth of Nations)
William Herschel
(Uranus)
Nevil Maskelyne
(Nautical Almanacs)