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Andreas Vesalius publishes his book "De humini corporus fabrica". This book founded modern anatomy and is full of Vesalius's observations on the human body.
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Galileo Galilei demonstrated the properties of gravity by throwing two weights of different weight to prove that both of them land at the same time.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau publishes his book "The Social Contract". The ideas written within this book the way people see the government changes.
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An angry mob of Americans who call themselves patriots taunt British soldiers and 5 people are killed by the British soldiers. This massacre further ignited the flame of revolution among the colonies.
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Diderot along with other contributors publish a 28 volume encyclopedia withe sections such as science, art, philosophy, math etc. This encyclopedia is very much like the ones we see today.
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Delegates Sign The Declaration of Independence
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After the third state was locked out of the meeting hall in Versailles they decided to gather in a nearby court in which the vowed to to disassemble until a new constitution had been established.
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Once being convicted of treachery with foreign powers Louis was sentenced to death and executed by guillotine. Almost all the nobility fled the country.
