Age of Revolutions By lasiaandkeshon 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus developed heliocentric theory Period: 1543 to 1848 Age of Revolutions 1547 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. May 14, 1643 Reign of Louis XIV of France 1651 Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan 1666 Isaac Newton formulated law of gravity 1682 Reign of Peter the Great of Russia: 1684 Johann Sebastian Bach 1689 English Bill of Rights of 1689 1690 John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government 1694 Voltaire 1748 Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Law 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 And Execution of Louis XVI 1798 Eugène Delacroix: Painted Liberty leading the people 1804 Napoleon becomes Emperor 1814 Congress of Vienna 1815 Battle of Waterloo: End of Napoleon’s Rule 1848 Unsuccessful revolutions of 1848