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1543 Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus, (born February 19, 1473, Toruń, Royal Prussia, Poland—died May 24, 1543, Frauenburg, East Prussia [now Frombork, Poland]), Polish astronomer who proposed that the planets have the Sun as the fixed point to which their motions are to be referred; that Earth is a planet which, besides orbiting the -
1603 Francis Bacon
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1610 Galileo Galilei
i observed with his telescope that Venus showed phases, despite remaining near the Sun in Earth's sky -
rene descartes
published the Meditations on First Philosophy -
1666 Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton has two birthdays. ...
Isaac almost gave up on his education. ...
An apple never actually fell on his head. -
john locke
From 1675-79, an unwell Locke travelled to France, returning to London in 1679-81 with his master to enjoy the heat of the Exclusion Crisis in which Shaftesbury and his supporters sought a Parliamentary Act to exclude James from taking the throne. -
1748 Montesquieu
The Spirit of the Laws is a treatise on political theory first published anonymously by Montesquieu in 1748. -
1762 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In 1762 his treatise on Education, Emile would be burned by order of the French parliament due to its indictment of religion in the education of youth. -
1763 Voltaire
Voltaire's first major philosophical work in his battle against “l'infâme” was The Treatise on Tolerance -
1776 Thomas Jefferson
he was appointed to the Second Continental Congress. -
1764 James Watt
married his cousin Margaret (Peggy) Miller, -
1751 Denis Diderot
Adam Smith FRSA was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. -
1776 George Washington
knew the Continental Army was outmatched by the British in weaponry, manpower and supplies -
1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The year 1786 saw the successful premiere of The Marriage of Figaro in Vienna. -
1789 Maximillien Robespierre
radical democrat and key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 -
1810 Miguel Hidalgo
Mexican Roman Catholic priest and key figure in the Mexican War of Independence -
1821 Simon Bolivar
. Boli- var captured Caracas in June 1821, permanently ending Spanish rule there.