American Revolution
1765–1783
Thirteen colonies win independence from Britain.
- Type
- War
- Date
- 1765–1783
- Place
- North America
Who was alive during American Revolution
- John Wesley 1703–1791, religious leader
- Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790, statesman and inventor
- Leonhard Euler 1707–1783, mathematician
- Frederick the Great 1712–1786, king
- Denis Diderot 1713–1784, philosopher
- Adam Smith 1723–1790, economist and philosopher
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804, philosopher
- Casanova 1725–1798, adventurer
- Catherine the Great 1729–1796, empress
- Edmund Burke 1729–1797, political thinker
- Josiah Wedgwood 1730–1795, potter
- George Washington 1732–1799, US president
- Joseph Haydn 1732–1809, composer
- John Adams 1735–1826, US president
- James Watt 1736–1819, inventor
- Jean-François de La Pérouse 1741–c. 1788, explorer
- Antoine Lavoisier 1743–1794, chemist
- Francisco Goya 1746–1828, painter
- Jacques-Louis David 1748–1825, painter
- Edward Jenner 1749–1823, physician
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832, writer
- Betsy Ross 1752–1836, American patriot
- Kitagawa Utamaro c. 1753–1806, artist
- Katsushika Hokusai 1760–1849, artist