Age Of Enlightenment

  • 1532

    Nicolaus Copernicus Developed Heliocentric Theory

  • Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

  • Galileo Galilei Used Telescope To support Heliocentric Theory

  • Johannes Kepler discovered Planetary Motion

  • William Harvey Discovered Circulation Of The Blood

  • Reign of Louis XIV of France

  • Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan

  • Reign Of Peter The Great Of Russia

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Isaac Newton Formulated Law Of Gravity

  • Glorious Revolution (William and Mary)

  • English Bill Of Rights

  • John Locke’s Two Treatises On Government

  • Voltaire

  • Montesquieu’s The Spirit Of Laws

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract

  • American Revolution

  • Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence

  • Storming Of The Bastille

  • Reign of Terror

  • Execution of Louis XVI

  • Napoleon becomes Emperor

  • Congress of Vienna

  • Battle of Waterloo: End of Napoleon’s Rule

  • Eugène Delacroix: Painted Liberty leading the people

  • Unsuccessful revolutions