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John Locke is born
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Becomes professor at Oxford College
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locke reads Rene Descartes' Discourse on the Method, and enjoys what he read
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Locke meets the British politician Anthony Ashley Cooper
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Locke supervises a surgery for Lord ashley that saves his life
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Locke is asked to write the Fundemental Constitution of Carolina
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Locke writes his first draf of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding is written
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Locke's begins to write and promote the idea of a Social Contract, he may not be the first with the idea but his social status will make the idea popular
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Locke's ideas about revolution against a government are linked to a plot to kill the king. Locke flees to Holland, many that agreed with him and Lord Ashley are arrested for treason and some are killed
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England's Glorious Revolution; Locke is welcomed by the new king and returns to England
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding is published by Locke
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Locke becomes good friends with Sir Isaac Newton
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Two Treaties of Civil Government is published by Locke
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Locke is appointed to the British Board of Trade and even though his health is failing he is its most influential member
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Thomas Jefferson uses some of Locke's ideas in the Declaration of Independence