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Events
- 1772 : First partition of Poland
- 1773 : Boston Tea Party
- 1776 : United States Declaration of Independence ; Beginning of the industrial revolution
- 1778 to 1779 : War of the Bavarian Succession
Culture
- 1774 : Goethe writes " The Sorrows of Young Werther ".
Personalities
- Ludwig van Beethoven , German composer
- Marie-Joseph Motier, Marquis de La Fayette , French general and politician
- George Washington , President of the United States
- Louis XV , King of France
- Maria Theresa , Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia
- Joseph II , Archduke in Austria, Emperor of the HRR
- Charles III , King of Spain
- Friedrich II. , King of Prussia
- Friedrich Wilhelm II. , King of Prussia
- Pius VI , Pope
- Catherine II , Tsarina in Russia
- George III , King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Go-Momozono , Emperor of Japan
- Qianlong . Emperor of China
Film, literature and entertainment
The entertainment media were often devoted to the American War of Independence . More recently, the movie The Patriot (2000) starring Mel Gibson , the action of which begins in 1776 , caught the eye. Another great classic on the subject is the film Revolution with Al Pacino and Donald Sutherland (1985). Sporadically, however, people also think about the Sturm und Drang , an important literary epoch in Germany that flourished in the 1770s. In this fertile decade, the young Goethe began to create and, in addition to numerous poems, created the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther , the drama Götz von Berlichingen , and the original version of Faust . Mozart achieved European fame on his travels through northern Italy, and Diderot and d'Alembert complete their encyclopedia.
