Age of Enlightment Timeline

By JonesgrkkVHS
  • 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus developed heliocentric theory

  • Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

    Publication Date ~ 1609 Published in English 1612
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    Johannes Kepler discovered planetary motion.

    Two laws Published 1609 and the third published 1619

  • Galileo Galilei used telescope to support heliocentric theory

  • Galileo Galilei used telescope to support heliocentric

  • THomas Hobbes' Leviathan

  • William Harvey discovered circulation of the blood

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    Reign of Peter The Great of Russia

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    Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Issac Newton formulated law of gravity

  • Gloriuous Revolution (William and Mary)

  • English Bill of Rughts of 1689

  • John Locke's Two Treatises on Government

  • Voltaire

  • Reign of Louis XIV of France

  • Montesquieu's The Sspirit of Laws

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract:

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    American Revolution

  • Storming of the Bastile

  • Execution of Louis XVI

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    Reign of terror

  • Napolean becomes Emperor

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    Congress of Vienna

  • Battle of Waterloo: End of Napoleon’s Rule

  • Eugène Delacroix: Painted Liberty leading the people

  • Unsucccessful revolutions of 1848

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