The Age of Revolutions
- Science & History
The Renaissance
How Europe rediscovered antiquity and reinvented art, science, and thought between 1300 and 1600
27 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Protestant Reformation
How a Wittenberg monk's protest over indulgences split Western Christianity and set off a century of religious war
30 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Scientific Revolution
How observation and mathematics replaced ancient authority between 1543 and 1727
20 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Enlightenment
How a new faith in reason and evidence remade philosophy, science, and government between 1620 and 1800
23 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The American Revolution
How a tax dispute among British colonists became a war for independence and a new republic
30 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The French Revolution
How a bankrupt monarchy's tax crisis became a decade of upheaval that ended with a general seizing power
28 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Industrial Revolution
How Britain, in eighty years, moved work from the hand to the machine and changed how everyone lives.
7 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Napoleonic Wars
How one artillery officer from Corsica remade Europe's map, then lost it all twice
23 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Russian Revolution
How three centuries of Romanov rule collapsed in a single year, and how the party that caught power in the wreckage never let go.
29 events · 100% sourced