Enlightenment

Enlightenment or enlighten may refer to:

==History== Age of Enlightenment, period in Western intellectual and cultural history from the late 17th to late 18th century, centered in France but also encompassing: Dutch Enlightenment, in the 17th- and 18th-century Netherlands French Enlightenment, in 17th- and 18th-century France Midlands Enlightenment, in the 18th-century English Midlands German Enlightenment, in the 18th century in modern-day Germany Austrian Enlightenment, in the 18th century in modern-day Austria Modern Greek Enlightenment, in the 18th century in modern-day Greece Hungarian Enlightenment, in the 18th century in modern-day Hungary Italian Enlightenment, in 18th-century Italy Jewish Haskalah or Jewish Enlightenment, movement among European Jews in the late 18th century Polish Enlightenment, in 18th-century Poland Portuguese Enlightenment, in 18th-century Portugal Romanian Enlightenment, in the 18th century in modern-day Romania Russian Enlightenment, in 18th-century Russia Scottish Enlightenment, in 18th-century Scotland Spanish Enlightenment, in 18th-century Spain, under the Bourbons Swedish Enlightenment, in 18th-century Sweden American Enlightenment, in the 18th century in the British North American colonies and the early United States Nahda, cultural movement of Arab-populated regions of the Ottoman Empire during the 19th and early 20th centuries China: May Fourth Movement, in the 1920s, and the New Enlightenment, in the 1980s