1632-1704:  Life of John Locke

1642-1724:  Life of Isaac Newton

1647-1706:  Life of Pierre Bayle

1647-1717:  Life of Maria Sibylla Merian, German entomologist

1689-1755:  Life of Montesquieu

1694-1778:  Life of Voltaire

1702-1714:  Reign of Anne of England

1711-1776:  Life of David Hume

1712-1778:  Life of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1713-1784:  Life of Denis Diderot

1714-1727:  Reign of George I of England

1715-1774:  Reign of Louis XV of France

1721:  Montesquieu, Persian Letters

1722-1742:  Robert Walpole is Prime Minister of England