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John Locke
John Locke born in England -
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After studying philosophy, medicine, law, and mathematics and graduating with multiple degrees Locke becomes a very important professor at Oxford Collage -
John Locke
Locke reads Rene Descartes' Discourse on the Method and likes what he reads. This work includes the famous quote "I think, therefore I am" -
John Locke
Anthony Ashley Cooper "Lord Ashley" who is an important British politician meets and befriends Locke -
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Locke who is now Lord Ashley's personal physician supervises a liver operation that saves Lord Ashley's life and remarkably he lives another 15 years -
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Because of Lord Ashley's involvement in the new British colonies in America Locke is asked to write the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina -
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locke draftes his first copies of
"Concerning Human Understanding"
in it are ideas on Natural law -
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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 -
John Locke
England's Glorious Revolution; Locke is welcomed by the new king and returns to England -
John Locke
Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke is published -
John Locke
Locke meets Sit Isaac Newton and they become friends 1689 -
John Locke
Two Treatises of Civil Government by John Locke is published 1690 -
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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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John Locke dies -
John Locke
Thomas Jefferson borrws from lockes ideas to write the Declaration of Independence