18th century

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800 in the Gregorian calendar.

Significant people

• Queen Anne (British monarch)
• Benedict Arnold, considered a traitor by many people on both sides (United States and Britain) of the American Revolutionary War.
• Johann Sebastian Bach (composer)
• Napoleon Bonaparte (general and first consul of France)
• Edmund Burke (British statesman and philosopher who supported the American Revolution)
• Catherine the Great (Russian Tsaritsa)
• James Cook (British navigator)
• Denis Diderot (French writer and philosopher)
• Leonhard Euler (mathematician)
• Benjamin Franklin (American revolutionary, inventor, printer, and diplomat)
• Frederick the Great (Prussian monarch)
• Thomas Gainsborough (painter)
• King George III (British monarch)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German writer)
• Thomas Gray (British writer)
• Alexander Hamilton (American revolutionary, lawyer, and statesman)
• William Hogarth (painter and engraver)
• David Hume (philosopher)
• Thomas Jefferson (American revolutionary, philosopher, and statesman)
• Samuel Johnson (British writer)
• Immanuel Kant (philosopher)
• Louis XIV of France (monarch)
• James Madison (American revolutionary, writer, and statesman)
• Michikinikwa (Miami tribe cheif and war leader)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer)
• Thomas Paine (British intellectual and philosopher who advocated for the American Revolution)
• Sir Joshua Reynolds (painter)
• Maximilien Robespierre (French Revolutionary leader and dictator)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French writer and philosopher)
• Friedrich Schiller (German writer)
• John Small, Sr (Hambledon cricketer; the first great batsman)
• Adam Smith (Scottish economist and philosopher)
• Laurence Sterne (British writer)
• Edward "Lumpy" Stevens (Surrey cricketer; the first great bowler)
• Jonathan Swift (British writer)
• Tecumseh (Revolutionary)
• George Washington (American revolutionary general and first president)
• Voltaire (French writer and philosopher)

See Founding Fathers of the United States

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