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when john locke was born
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Locke reads Rene Descartes' Discourse on the Method and likes what he reads. This work includes the famous quote "I think, therefore I am"
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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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Locke writes his first draft of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, in it are ideas on Natural Law; based partially on the writings of others
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Locke meets Sir Isaac Newton and they become friends
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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 its most influential member
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John Locke dies
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Thomas Jefferson borrows from Locke's ideas to write the Declaration of Independence