17th Century Timeline

  • Period: Dec 27, 1571 to

    Johannes Kepler

    German, Laws of planetary motion
  • Period: to

    Rene Descartes

    French philosopher
  • Louis XIII

    Louis XIII

    Crowned at age 17
  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon

    "Novum Organum"
  • Period: to

    John Locke

  • Rene Descartes

    Rene Descartes

    Philosophy of Rationalism, Wax Arguement
  • Blaise Pascal

    Blaise Pascal

    Invents Pascaline-an automatic calculator
  • Period: to

    English Civil War

  • Period: to

    Sir Isaac Newton

  • Thirty Years' War

    ending
  • Sir Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton

    studies of Mathmatics, optics, physics, and astronomy
  • ANtonie Van Leeuwenhoe

    ANtonie Van Leeuwenhoe

    Bacteria
  • Preperation of Principia Mathmatica

    Preperation of Principia Mathmatica

    Newton
  • Two Treatises of Government

    Two Treatises of Government

    Political Theorist, liberal political thought
  • Candide-Voltaire

    Candide-Voltaire

    french philosipher-social convention
  • The Social Contract

    The Social Contract

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Napolean Bonaparte

    Napolean Bonaparte

    Born in Ajaccio, France
  • Louis XVI

    Louis XVI

    Becomes King
  • "critique of Pure Reason"

    "critique of Pure Reason"

    Immanuel Kant
  • Period: to

    French Revolution

  • Louis XVI executed

    Louis XVI executed

    Tried, convicted, and executed for treason. Treason Monarchy abolished
  • Napoleans weds Joséphine "Rose" de Beauharnais

    Napoleans weds Joséphine "Rose" de Beauharnais

  • Rosetta Stone

    Rosetta Stone

    Soldiers discover Rosetta Stone
  • Napolean defeated in Waterloo

    Napolean defeated in Waterloo

  • Reign of Charles X

    Reign of Charles X