The Enlightenment

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 233. Chapters: Leonardo da Vinci, Age of Enlightenment, Ludwig van Beethoven, Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Joseph Haydn, Frederick the Great, Secularism, Encyclopédie, Polymath, American Revolution, Neoclassicism, Brights movement, Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?, May Revolution, Russian Enlightenment, Science in the Age of Enlightenment, Baroque music, Enlightenment in Spain, Republic of Letters, Anti-clericalism, 1750-1795 in fashion, Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, Weimar Classicism, American Enlightenment, Founding Fathers of the United States, 1794 Treason Trials, Counter-Enlightenment, Joshua Toulmin, Women in the Enlightenment, Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot, Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles, Liberal Christianity, Josef Vratislav Monse, Nicolay, Education in the Age of Enlightenment, Haskalah, Nakaz, Alexander Mourousis, Enlightenment in Poland, Evolutionary ideas of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, William Rickman, Figurative system of human knowledge, Sentimentalism, Midlands Enlightenment, Diego de Torres Villarroel, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, Rahel Varnhagen, Ivan Shuvalov, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Ivan Betskoy, Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, Oath More Judaico, Modern Greek Enlightenment, Nicholas Mavrocordatos, Afrancesado, Alexander Kokorinov, Enlightenment in Western secular tradition, Religious liberalism in Rajput courts, Encyclopédistes, Christian Felix Weiße, 17th-century philosophy, Alexander Radishchev, Gheorghe Sincai, Galante music, Samuil Micu-Klein, Atlantic Revolutions, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Dinicu Golescu, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport, Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolai, Nikolay Novikov, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, Supplex Libellus Valachorum, Age of Revolution, Dei delitti e delle pene, Transylvanian School, Petru Maior, Gotthard Friedrich Stender, Words of Peace and Truth, Monitor, Johann Adam von Ickstatt, Subreption, Meiklejohnian absolutism, Criticism of Monarchy. Excerpt: The May Revolution (Spanish: ) was a week-long series of events that took place from May 18 to May 25, 1810, in Buenos Aires, capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, a colony of the Spanish Empire which included the present-day nations of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The result was the ousting of Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros and the establishment of a local government, the Primera Junta (First Junta), on May 25. These events are commemorated in Argentina as "May Week" (Spanish: ). The May Revolution was a direct reaction to Spain's Peninsular War during the previous two years. In 1808 the Spanish king, Ferdinand VII, abdicated in favor of Napoleon, who granted the throne to his brother, Joseph Bonaparte. A Supreme Central Junta led resistance to Joseph's government and the French occupation of Spain, but eventually suffered a series of reversals that resulted in the loss of the northern half of the country. On February 1, 1810, French troops took Seville and gained control of most of Andalusia. The Supreme Junta retreated to Cádiz and dissolved in favor of a Regency Council of Spain and the Indies. News of these events arrived in Buenos Aires on May 18 via British ships bringing newspapers from Spain and the rest of Europe. Viceroy Cisneros tried to conceal the news in order to maintain the political status quo, but a group of criollo lawyers and m...