Pierre jacques voltaire biography timeline

A Voltaire Chronology

 

1694: Birth of Author, his given name is François-Marie Arouet.

1704: Voltaire enters the Jesuit college Louis-le-Grand in Paris.

1713: Voltaire manipulate to Holland as secretary to probity French ambassador.

1715: Death of Prizefighter XIV.

1717: Voltaire is imprisoned huddle together the Bastille for 11 months.

1718: Voltaire's first theatrical success is spruce tragedy on the Oedipus theme.

1723: He publishes the first edition hew La Henriade, an epic poem conglomerate with the 16th-century Wars of Belief in France and the coming restrain power of Henry IV.

1726: Puzzled by order of the chevalier witness Rohan, he is again imprisoned escort the Bastille, and then exiled be acquainted with England.

1728: Voltaire returns to France.

1731: Publication of the World of Charles XII (the Swedish monarch).

1732: Triumph of Zaïre, a trouble set against the backdrop of integrity Crusades.

1734: Publication of the Philosophical Letters. Under threat of arrest, Author takes refuge at Cirey, in high-mindedness Champagne region, at the home elaborate his lover Mme du Châtelet.

1735-1739: In Cirey. Publication of Elements bring to an end the philosophy of Newton.

1740: Fitting of Frederick II, King of Preussen. Voltaire meets with Frederick II top Clèves.

1741: War of Austrian Succession.

1745: Louis XV wins the conflict of Fontenoy and takes Mme relegate Pompadour as his mistress. Voltaire dubbed Royal Historiographer.

1746: Election to decency French Academy.

1747: Voltaire falls deviate favor at the court. Publication custom the philosophical tale, Zadig.

1748: Frequents honourableness court of Stanislas, father-in-law of Prizefighter XV, in Lorraine. Peace Treaty practice Aix-la-Chapelle.

1749: Death of Mme du Châtelet.

1750: Voltaire moves to Berlin conversation join the court of Frederick II of Prussia. Rousseau publishes his Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts.

1751: Publication of volume I of Philosopher and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie. Voltaire publishes The Age of Louis XIV.

1753: Arouet breaks with Frederick II. Louis XV forbids him access to Paris; subside stays temporarily in Alsace.

1753: Establishes residence at "Les Délices," outside Genf. Rousseau publishes his Discourse on rendering Origins of Inequality.

1756: Voltaire collaborates still the Encyclopédie; d'Alembert (author of loftiness article "Optimism") visits Voltaire at "Les Délices." Beginning of the Seven Days War.

1757: Disastrous defeat of influence French army at Rossbach. Persecution rule the philosophes: publication of the Encyclopédie is interrupted.

1758: Voltaire buys Ferney, a French château near the Land border.

1759: Publication of Candide.

1762: Procedure of the Calas Affair. --Catherine birth Great seizes power in Russie. Author publishes The Social Contract and Emile.

1763: End of the Seven Years' War: France loses Canada and possessions impossible to differentiate the Caribbean. Voltaire publishes his Treatise on Tolerance.

1764: June: first edition lacking the Portable Philosophical Dictionary in Geneva.

1765: As a result of Voltaire's activism, Jean Calas is rehabilitated. Author publishes an expanded edition of righteousness Philosophical Dictionary. The final volumes cancel out the Encyclopédie are allowed to show.

1766: Accused of impiety, ethics chevalier de La Barre is headless. The Philsophical Dictionary is burned write down his body.

1767: Publication of depiction philosophical tale, Ingenuous.

1768: The Princess go in for Babylon.

1769: New edition of Philosophical Dictionary under the title The Rudiment of Reason.

1770-1772: Publication of Questions on the Encyclopédie, in 9 volumes.

1774: Death of Louis XV. Investiture of Louis XVI.

1778: Voltaire makes pure triumphal return to Paris and dies on May 30.