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1543
"On the Revolutions of the Celestial Sphere"- By Copernicus
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium or "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Sphere" by Nicolaus Copernicus was a major event in Science's History causing the beggining of the Scientific Revolution and the Copernican Revolution with its presentation of the Heliocentric Theory.This was published before his death. -
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THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
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THE ENLIGHTENMENT
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Glorious Revolution
From 1688 to 1689, in the British Isles, the English, Irish and Scottish society, Welsh, and Dutch Forces, participate in a revolution that causes the replacement of James II by William III and Mary II, the Jacobite raising of 1689, the Williamite War in Ireland and the Drafting of the Bill Rights in 1689. -
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ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM
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Catherine II, The Great
Six months after Catherine II and her husband, Peter III,became rulers Catherine II forced her husband to step down the throne and she alone became empress of Russia. -
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THE USA INDEPENDENCE
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Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
On the 4th of July in 1779 the British forces acknowleged the Declaration of Independece of the United States and the Thirteen Colonies that fought for the cause united to become a new country named United States of America, a country now free from the British rule. -
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Assembly in France incorporated the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a statement of democratic principles from the philosophical and political ideas that came from Enlightenment thinkers (ex. Jean-Jacques Rousseau).
