Age of Enlightenment By Cotman 1491 Nicolaus Copernicus developed heliocentric theory 1605 Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote 1609 Johannes Kepler discovered planetary motion 1610 Galileo Galilei used telescope to support heliocentric theory 1628 William Harvey discovered circulation of the blood 1638 Reign of Louis XIV of France 1651 Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan 1672 Reign of Peter the Great of Russia 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach 1687 Isaac Newton formulated law of gravity 1688 Glorious Revolution (William and Mary) 1689 English bill of rights 1689 John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government 1694 Voltaire 1748 Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1762 Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract 1775 American Revolution 1776 Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence 1789 Storming of the Bastille 1793 Reign of Terror 1793 Execution of Louis XVI 1804 Napoleon becomes Emperor 1814 Congress of Vienna 1815 Battle of Waterloo: End of Napoleon’s Rule 1830 Eugène Delacroix: Painted Liberty leading the people 1848 Unsuccessful revolutions