Jean-Jacques Rousseau Born in Geneva
June 28, 1712
The watchmaker's son who would grow up to tell Europe that civilization had corrupted natural man was born in a tall Protestant house above the Rhone. His mother died of childbirth within days. He would be a vagabond, a lover, a composer, a philosopher, a renegade, sometimes all at once.
In context
Also in 1712 (4 other events on record)
- Newcomen's Atmospheric Engine · Europe · Science
- Slave Code Strengthened in Virginia · North America · Politics
- Kaempfer's Amoenitates Exoticae · East Asia · Culture
- New York Slave Revolt · North America · Politics
Before and after in Europe
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.