Revolutions By m.portwood Period: Jan 10, 1588 to Jan 10, 1679 Thomas Hobbes Period: Jan 10, 1632 to Jan 10, 1704 John Locke Period: Jan 10, 1689 to Jan 10, 1755 Baron de Montesquieu Nov 17, 1689 English Bill of Rights Period: Jan 10, 1694 to Jan 10, 1778 Voltaire Period: Jan 10, 1706 to Jan 10, 1790 Benjamin Franklin Period: Jan 10, 1712 to Jan 10, 1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Period: Jan 10, 1723 to Jan 10, 1790 Adam Smith Period: Jan 10, 1738 to Jan 10, 1794 Cesare Beccaria Period: Jan 10, 1743 to Jan 10, 1826 Thomas Jefferson Period: Jan 10, 1753 to Jan 10, 1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Period: Jan 10, 1759 to Jan 10, 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Nov 17, 1763 Seven Years’ War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France Nov 17, 1765 Stamp Act passed by British Parliament Nov 17, 1766 Repeal of Stamp Act Nov 17, 1767 Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists Nov 17, 1770 Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops Nov 17, 1773 Boston Tea Party Nov 17, 1774 First Continental Congress Period: Nov 26, 1775 to Nov 26, 1783 American Revolution Nov 17, 1776 Declaration of Independence Nov 17, 1778 American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance Period: Jan 10, 1783 to Jan 10, 1830 Simon Bolivar Nov 17, 1789 Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America Nov 17, 1789 Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris Nov 17, 1789 National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man Nov 17, 1791 Beheading of King Louis XVI Nov 17, 1791 Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue Nov 17, 1791 U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states Period: Nov 26, 1791 to Nov 26, 1799 French Revolution Period: Nov 26, 1791 to Nov 26, 1804 Haiti Revolution Nov 17, 1792 French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue Nov 17, 1792 France declares war on Austria Nov 17, 1793 France declares war on Great Britain Nov 17, 1793 All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British Nov 17, 1794 Toussaint leads troops against the British Nov 17, 1797 French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint Nov 18, 1798 Toussaint negotiates peace with the British Nov 18, 1801 War ends between Great Britain and France Nov 18, 1801 Constitution for Haiti Nov 18, 1802 General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery Nov 18, 1803 New declaration of war between Great Britain and France Nov 18, 1803 French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence Nov 26, 1804 Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France Nov 26, 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti Nov 26, 1808 British end the slave trade Nov 26, 1810 Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies Nov 26, 1813 French expelled from Spain Nov 26, 1815 Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone Nov 26, 1818 French abolish slave trade Nov 26, 1823 U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine
