1784
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"Of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made."--"Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose" (1784) by Immanuel Kant |
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- February 29: The Marquis de Sade is transfered from the Vincennes prison to the Bastille.
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Art and culture
- Traces du Magnétisme by Jacques Cambry
- In "What Is Enlightenment?", Immanuel Kant defines Ennlightenment
- "La Paysanne pervertie" by Restif de la Bretonne is published in four parts
- Histoire de Marguerite, fille de Suzon
- Samuel Ödman is the first to suggest that Vikings used fly-agaric (Amanita muscaria) to produce their berserk rages.
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- Denis Diderot, French philosopher (b. 1713)
- Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet (b. 1753)
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