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He was born in England
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After studying philosophy, medicine, law, and mathematics and graduating with multiple degrees Locke becomes a very important professor at Oxford College
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Locke reads Rene Descartes' Discourse on the Method and likes what he reads. This work includes the famous quote "I think, therefore I am"
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Locke meets and befriends the British politician Anthony Ashley Cooper
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He supervises a liver operation on Lord Ashley and saves his life and remarkably lives another 15 years
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Because of Lord Ashley's involvement in the new British colonies in America Locke is asked to write the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina
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Locke writes his first draft of the Essay of Human Understanding, basing his writings loosely on those of others
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Locke's begins to write and promote the idea of a Social Contract, he may not be the first with the idea but his social status will make the idea popular
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Locke's ideas about revolution against a government are linked to a plot to kill the king. Locke flees to Holland, many that agreed with him and Lord Ashley are arrested for treason and some are killed
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England's Glorious Revolution; Locke is welcomed by the new king and returns to Englan
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding is published
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Locke meets Sir Isaac Newton and they become friends
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Two Treatsies of Civil Government is published
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He is appointed to the British Board of Trade and, thought his health was failing, he was one of their most influential members
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Jefferson uses Locke's ideas to write the Declaration of Independence!
