GEORGE II
1727 – 1743
1727 – 1743
Robert Walpole -
War of the Polish Succession -
(James Oglethorpe) -
(Admiral Edward Vernon) -
(Charles VI & Pragmatic Sanction) -
G2-
Carlus Linnaeus
(System of Nature)
Daniel Bernoulli
(Hydrodynamica)
Leonhard Euler
(Infinities)
John Singleton Copley
(Death of Chatham)
John Michael Rysbrack
(sculptor)
Louis François Roubiliac
(portrait of Handel)
François Boucher
(rococo artist)
Tiepolo (mural artist)
Jean Baptiste Chardin
(petit bourgeoisie)
William Hogarth
(Rake’s Progress)
Sir James Thornhill
(ceiling and mural)
Allan Ramsay
(portrait artist)
Antonio Canaletto
(Grand Tour)
Francesco Guardi
(veduta)
John Kay
(flying shuttle)
Thomas Coram
(foundling hospital)
Voltaire (rights of man)
Hume (Human Nature)
Methodism
(John & Charles Wesley)
George Whitefield
(American colonies)
François Quesnay
(Physiocrats)
George Frederick Handel
(The Messiah)
Johan Helmich Roman
(the Swedish Handel)
Maurice Greene
(Music Master)
Thomas Arne (Alfred)
Domenico Scarlatti
(sonatas)
Vitus Bering
(Bering Strait)
D’Anville
(Atlas Générale)
Cassini III
(survey of France)
William Stukeley (Stonehenge)
Alexander Pope
(The Dunciad)
John Arbuthnot (John Bull)
John Gay (Beggar’s Opera)
James Macpherson
(Ossian)
James Gibbs
(Book of Architecture)
1727 – 1743
1744 – 1760
1744 – 1760
King George’s War (North America and India) -
Charlie (’45 Rebellion) -
(Afghanistan) -
Calendar (Britain) -
Seven Years’ War (Anglo-
(Prussia) and Maria Theresa (Austria) -
Pompeii & Herculaneum (Winckelmann)
Benjamin Franklin (bifocal lenses)
Benjamin Franklin (electricity)
Henry Fielding
(Tom Jones)
Samuel Richardson
(Clarissa)
Abbé Prévost
(Manon Lescaut)
Thomas Gray
(Elergy)
Edward Young
(Night Thoughts)
William Collins
(To Evening)
James Thomson
(The Seasons)
Samuel Johnson
(Dictionary)
Lord Chesterfield
(Letters)
Albrect von Haller
(neurology)
William Cheselden
(Anatomy of Bones)
James Lind
(Treatise on Scurvy)
John Pringle
(Army diseases)
Nicolas Lacaille
(southern skies)
Johann Tobias Mayer
(libration of the moon)
Thomas Wright
(Milky Way)
Capability Brown
(landscaped gardens)
William Kent
(interior designer)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(Carceri d’invenzione)
Thomas Chippendale
(cabinet maker)
Jean François Oeben
(rococo style)
Benjamin West
(Death of James Wolfe)
Charles Montesquieu
(Spirit of the Laws)
Diderot (Age of Reason)