(NOTE: This is a high-rez subcollage of THIS collage which has a more detailed description and source citations.)
All of this happened in the same year:
- Adam Smith publishes “Wealth of Nations”
- Thomas Paine publishes “Common Sense”
- Edward Gibbon publishes “Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire”
- Adam Weishaupt founded the Bavarian Illuminati group
- Chabad Lubavitch founded in Belarus
- The US makes the “Declaration of Independence”
