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John Locke is born
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John Locke
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Anthony Ashley Cooper "lord Ashley" who is an important British politian meets and befriends Locke
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Locke is now Lord Ashleys personal physian
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Locke writes the his first draft of the essay Concerning Human Understanding in are ideas for the natural law
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Essay Concering Human Understanding by John Locke is published
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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 most influential member
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John Locke dies
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Thomas Jefferson borrows Lockes ideas to write the Declaration of Independence