Pompeii Rediscovered
March 23, 1748
Bourbon workmen digging near Vesuvius, ten years after Herculaneum, struck the walls of Pompeii. Unlike its neighbor, Pompeii had been buried in ash and was far easier to excavate. Within a generation its frescoes, its bodies in the ash, and its erotica would transform European art, design, and imagination from Robert Adam to Winckelmann.
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Also in 1748 (4 other events on record)
- Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws · Europe · Culture
- Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding · Europe · Culture
- Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle · Europe · Politics
- La Mettrie's L'Homme Machine · Europe · Culture
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.