Adulthood


 * Leibinz never got married.
 * When Leibinz died, he left his money to his sister's stepson.
 * He had many friends, and was admired by many all over Europe.
 * Returns to Hanover and is appointed librarian at Wolfenbuttel.
 * Over the next several years, through his close friendship to Sophie, wife of Ernst August, and their daughter Sophie Charlotte, who became queen of Prussia, he visits Berlin often.Publishes "New System of Nature" and "A Specimen of Dynamics.
 * "Writes "On the Ultimate Origination of Things.
 * "Writes "On Nature Itself."
 * Berlin Society of Sciences founded with Leibniz elected president for life.
 * Made a foreign member of the French Academy.
 * Finishes New Essays on Human Understanding, a response to Locke's Essays Concerning Human Understanding, which he refrains from publishing upon the death of Locke in the same year.
 * Writes Theodicy, his only complete philosophical work published in his life-time.Ernst August dies, succeeded by George Ludwig who also became king of Great Britain.
 * Writes "Monadology" and "Principles of Nature and Grace.
 * "Dies in Hanover after a prolonged case of arthritise and gout. The only one to attend his funeral is his secretary, Eckhart.