history By Rturner 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus developed heliocentric theory. 1609 Johannes Kepler discovered planetary motion. 1628 William Harvey discovered circulation of the blood. 1651 Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan 1672 Reign of Peter the Great of Russia: 1687 Isaac Newton formulated law of gravity. 1688 Glorious Revolution (William and Mary) 1689 English Bill of Rights of 1689 1689 John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government: 1694 Voltaire 1715 Reign of Louis XIV of France 1735 Johann Sebastian Bach 1748 Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 1762 Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract 1769 Napoleon becomes Emperor 1775 American Revolution 1776 Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence 1789 Storming of the Bastille 1793 Reign of Terror 1793 Execution of Louis XVI 1814 Congress of Vienna 1815 Battle of Waterloo: End of Napoleon’s Rule 1830 Eugène Delacroix: Painted Liberty leading the people 1848 Unsuccessful revolutions of 1848 1991 Galileo Galilei used telescope to support heliocentric theory.