Industrial Age
Steam, railways, electricity, empire and a rewired world.
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Immanuel Kant
1,724 CE – 1,804 CE
Philosopher · Author of the Critique of Pure Reason
Toussaint Louverture
1,743 CE – 1,803 CE
Liberator of Haiti
Thomas Jefferson
1,743 CE – 1,826 CE
3rd President of the United States · Author of the Declaration of Independence
Francisco de Goya
1,746 CE – 1,828 CE
Spanish painter and printmaker · Court painter turned unflinching witness of war
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1,749 CE – 1,832 CE
Poet · Novelist · Playwright · Author of Faust
Alexander Hamilton
1,755 CE – 1,804 CE
1st Secretary of the Treasury · Co-author of The Federalist Papers
Katsushika Hokusai
1,760 CE – 1,849 CE
Ukiyo-e Master · Painter of The Great Wave
Napoleon Bonaparte
1,769 CE – 1,821 CE
Emperor of France
Ludwig van Beethoven
1,770 CE – 1,827 CE
Composer · The Bridge to Romanticism
Jane Austen
1,775 CE – 1,817 CE
Novelist · Author of Pride and Prejudice
Carl Friedrich Gauss
1,777 CE – 1,855 CE
Mathematician · Physicist · The Prince of Mathematicians
Michael Faraday
1,791 CE – 1,867 CE
Physicist · Chemist · Electromagnetism Pioneer
Key events
Steam, factories, and a new world of work.
A continental war reshapes Europe.
A moral revolution across continents.
Evolution by natural selection.
Union and emancipation preserved.
Bismarck forges the German Empire.
Edison and Bell remake daily life.
Events and overlapping lifetimes are paginated below.