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Site Navigation Home --- TimeLog (Content Blog) --- TimePage Blog (Site Blog) --- Contact --- Links --- Bookstore (Amazon) --- Search ----------------------- Generations --- Colonial Cycle ...... Elizabethan Renaissance Era ...... Puritan Awakening Era ...... Era of Religious Intolerance ...... Glorious Revolution Era --- Revolutionary Cycle ...... Age of Enlightenment ...... Great Awakening Era ...... French and Indian War Era ...... American Revolution Era --- Civil War Cycle ...... Era of Good Feeling ...... Transcendental Awakening Era ...... Era of Slavery Expansion ...... Civil War Era --- World War Cycle ...... Gilded Age ...... Missionary Awakening Era ...... World War I / Prohibition Era ...... Depression / World War II Era --- Present Cycle ...... Era of Superpower America ...... Boom Awakening Era ...... Information Revolution Era ...... Powerdown Era (Coming Crisis?) --- Theory --- Eras --- Types --- Future Cycles ----------------------- Extras --- 13 Originals --- Family Generations --- George Washington --- Lewis & Clark --- Nathan Hale --- Presidents --- War --- Baseball

The Awakeners were the idealist generation of the Revolutionary Cycle. A religious upswelling ( a spiritual event called the Great Awakening) occured while they were becoming adults and swept the land. During that time these youth were known to condemn their own parents for a lack of piety. Later when they had become stern patrons, like Old Ben Franklin, they watched as a young civic generation, S&H called the Republicans, brought the colonies together, during a secular event we all remember as the American Revolution, and wrestled independence from Europe.

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The Age of Enlightenment - 1st Turning, High (1693-1733)

Cohorts: Awakening Generation - Prophet, Idealist Type (1701-1723)
Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Witherspoon, Roger Sherman, Crispus Attucks, Samuel Davies, Roger Sherman, Thomas Hutchinson, Jonathon Edwards, Gilbert Tennant,.

American Timeline events

Foreign Contemporaries: John Wesley, Jean- Jacques Rousseau, Frederick the Great, Adam Smith, Baron Munchhausen, Sir John Murray, John Montagu Sandwich, Horace Walpole, Charles III, Thomas Gray, Peter II, John Stuart Bute, George Grenville, Frederick II, David Hume, Richard Grenville, Louis XV, Samuel Johnson, William Pitt, Leonhard Euler, Henry Fielding, Carolus Linnaeus, Charles and JohnWesley, Anders Celsius, [Author's great, great, great, great, great grandfather - Samuel Murray (born in Ireland, 1724)]

Foreign Timeline Events: War of Spanish Succession begins (1701), 15 year old German composer, J. S. Bach, begins to give organ lessons (1701), Anne becomes Queen of England (1702), first daily newspaper, "The Daily Courant" is published in London and "Moscow Gazette" begins publication by order of Peter the Great (1702), Halley predicts the comet (1705), first Life Insurance Co. opens in London (1706), England and Scotland form Great Britain (1707), the Mogul empire in India begins to disintegrate (1707), Italian Harpsichord maker invents the piano (1709), Fahrenheit invents the thermometer (1709), Handel's opera "Agripa" produced (1710), half a million killed by Bubonic Plague in Austria and Germany (1711), Queen Anne's War (War of Spanish Sucession) ends (1713), Peter the Great introduces public education in Russia (1714), Voltaire imprisoned (1717), Treaty of the Hague (1720), Manchu Dynasty flourishes in China (1722), China bans Christianity (1723),.King George II succeeds King George I (1727).

The Great Awakening Era - 2nd Turning, Awakening (1734-1743)

Cohorts: Liberty Generation - Nomad, Reactive Type (1724-1741)
George Washington, Daniel Boone, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, Benedict Arnold, John Adams, Thomas Paine, John Hancock, Ethan Allen

American Timeline events

Foreign Contemporaries: Edmund Burke, Catherine the Great, George III, Immanuel Kant, James Watt, Joseph Priestly

Foreign Timeline Events: England declares war on Spain in the War of Jenkin's Ear (1739),

The French and Indian War Era - 3rd Turning, Unraveling (1744-1773)

Cohorts: Republican Generation - Hero, Civic Type (1742-1766)
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Paul Jones, Nathan Hale, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Alexander Hamilton, Noah Webster, Betsy Ross, John Marshall, [ Author's great, great, great, great grandfather - James Murray (born in Pennsylvania, 1747)]

American Timeline events

Foreign Contemporaries: Marie Antoinette, Robert Burns, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maximilien Robespierre, Mary Wollstonecraft, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Edward Jenner, Alexander von Humboldt, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Foreign Timeline Events: George III becomes King of England (1760), the Treaty of Paris officially concludes the Seven Year War (1763)

The American Revolution Era - 4th Turning, Crisis (1774-1787)

Cohorts: Compromise Generation - Artist, Adaptive Type (1767-1791)
Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren (1782), William Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, James Buchanan, Dolley Madison , Henry Clay, Meriwether Lewis, Captain William Clark, Daniel Webster, Washington Irving, Davey Crockett, J.Fenimore Cooper, Samuel F. B. Morse, [Author's great, great, great grandfather - William Murray (born in North Carolina, 1785)]

American Timeline events

Foreign Contemporaries: Napolean Bonaparte, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sir Walter Scott, Simon Bolivar, Jane Austen, Charles Babbage, Georg Hegel, Carl Gauss, Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Faraday, David Ricardo, George Stephenson

Foreign Timeline Events: Adam Smith publishes Wealth of Nations (1776), France declares war on Britain (1778), Spain declares war on England (1779).

For each historical era I show a list of notable Americans born to that generation and a pointer to the timeline of importantant events in American History that occured during that time. It is important to keep in mind that these are the events that shaped the early life of this generation. A few important foreign cohorts and global events are also listed to provide a contextual backdrop for each era

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