Antecedents of the XIX

  • copernican Heliocentrism is published
    Mar 28, 1543

    copernican Heliocentrism is published

    -Astronomical model designed by Nicolaus Copernicus
    -states that the sun is the center of the universe and the earth turns around it
  • the book "The Blazing World"by Margaret Cavendish is published

    the book "The Blazing World"by Margaret Cavendish is published

    -the work is considered the precursor of science fiction
  • the book "Grounds of Natural Philosophy" by Margaret Cavendish is published

    the book "Grounds of Natural Philosophy" by Margaret Cavendish is published

    -in this work, she refuses Descartes´rational thinking
  • Montesquieu

    Montesquieu

    -lawyer by training, best known as writer and political theorist
    -his work explained how the people interact politically and socially
    -his most famous book is "The Spirit of the Laws" and its more than 1000 pages
  • Voltaire

    Voltaire

    -his real name is François-Marie Auolet
    -"people can understand the world through the reason"
    -argued against organized religion
    -books: candide
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    • a protest to the British Parlament´s Tea Act of 1773, where they lower of taxes the East India Company -colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians and dump 342 chests of tea to the sea
  • 1st Continental Congress is created in the USA

    1st Continental Congress is created in the USA

    • in reaction to the British Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposes in response of The Americans Resistence to new taxes
  • King Louis XVI called the Estates-General meeting

    King Louis XVI called the Estates-General meeting

    -wanted to change the tax system in order to increase the government´s money
  • creation of The National Assembly

    creation of The National Assembly

    created by the members of the third state in order to protect their interests