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Anthony Ashley Cooper "Lord Ashley" who is an important British politician meets and befriends Locke.
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Locke writes his first draft of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, in it are ideas on Natural Law; based partially on the writings of others.
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke is published.
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Two Treaties of Cival Government is published by John Locke.
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Locke is appointed to the British Board of Trade and even though his health is failing he is its most influential member.
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Thomas Jefferson borrows from Locke's ideas to write the Declaration of Independence.