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Galileo's Sidereal Messenger is published
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Isaac Newton publishes one of his most recognized books: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
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John Toland's publication that tries to explain that "there is nothing in the Gospels contrary to reason, nor above it"
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Form of government that absolutist governors adopted by fusionating their absolute power with enlightenment ideas.
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Diedrot with Jean Le Rond d’Alembert as coeditor start publishing a traduction of Ephraim Chambers’ Cyclopaedia. Their publication rapidly becomes one of the most important books for rational and revolutionary thoughts.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau publishes the book Du Contrat Social
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Delegates sent by twelve of the thirteen colonies approve the separation of Great Britain from the thirteen colonies to became an independent country.
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Americans won allies with France, Spain and Holland. Because of that, Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris in which declares The United States of America an independent nation.
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A group of workers attacked "Le Bastille", a prison in Paris. This event lead to the start of the French Revolution.
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After concluding the French Revolution and eliminating the absolutist government from it, France establishes its First Republic.