(1689-1762)

//**1689**//- Beginning of the Glorious Revolution which repalaced the Catholic king with a Protestant one. //**1762**//- Britain declares war on Spain. Seven years' war and French and indian war continue in America.

//**Late 1600's**// The Age of Reason- rational thought and intellectual thinking encouraged.

//**Early 1700's**// The Age of Enlightenment- American revolution inspired intellectual freshness. Reason is held as the ultimate source of authority. Came just before the French Revolution (1789)