John locke

John Locke

By mockinbird
  • Birth

    Birth

    John Locke is born in Wrington, Somerest, England, to a Puritan Home
  • School

    School

    Enters the Westminister School, where he studies the classics
  • Oxford

    Oxford

    Elected to a studentship at Christ's Church, Oxford

  • Bachelor's degree

    Recieves his bachlor's degree and continues to residence for the Master's degree
  • Inheritance

    Inheritance

    Receives a small inheritance from father's estate and decides to study medicine

  • Censor of Moral Philosophy

    Is appointed censor of moral philosophy
  • Physician

    Physician

    Appointed personal physician to Lord Ashley, Earl of Shaftesbury
    The leader of the parliamentary opposition to the Sturarts
  • Licensed to practice medicine

    Licensed to practice medicine

    Awarded his medical degree and licensed to practice medicine
  • Travels to France

    Travels to France

    Returns to England in 1679
  • Traitor

    Traitor

    he is denounced as a traitor and flees England for Holland. Shortly after his studentship at oxford was taken away from him.
  • Period: to

    conspiring

    Involved in activities to place william of Orange on the throne of England
  • First publishings

    First publishings

    First Letter Concerning Toleration
    Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Two Treaties of Government

    Two Treaties of Government

    Publishes
  • Commissioner on the Board of Trade and Plantations

    Commissioner on the Board of Trade and Plantations

  • Some Thoughts Concerning Education

    Some Thoughts Concerning Education

    Publishes
  • Reasonableness of Christianity

    Reasonableness of Christianity

    floowed by a response to its critics, Vindiction of Reasonableness of Christianity

  • Publishes second Vindiction of Reasonableness of Christianity

  • Death

    Death

    Dies at the home of Sir Francis and Lady masham