After studying philosophy, medicie, law, and mathematics and graduating with multiple degrees Locke becomes a very important professor at Oxford College
Locke reads Rene Descartes' Discourse on the Method and likes what he reads. This work includes the famous quote, "I think, therefore I am"
Anthony Ashley Cooper "Lord Ashley" who is an important British politician meets and befriends Locke
Locke who is now Lord Ashley's personal physician supervises a liver operation that saves Lord Ashely's life and remarkably he lives another 15 years
Because of Lord Ashley's involvement in the British colonies in America Locke is asked to write the Fundamental Constitiution of Carolina
Locke writes is first draft of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, in it are the laws of Natureal Law; based partially on the writing of others
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Locke 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
Locke's ideas about revolution against a government are linked to a plot to kill the king. Locke flees to Holland, many agreed with him and Lord Ashley are arrested for treason and some are killed
England's Glorious Revolution; Locke is welcomed by the new king and returns to England
Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke is published
Locke meets Sir Isaac Newton and they become friends
Two Treatises of Civil Government, by John Locke is published
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Locke is appointed to the British Board of Trade and even though his health is failing he is its most infuential member
John Locke Dies
Thomas Jefferson Borrows From Locke's Ideas
Uses them to write the Declaration of Independence