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Sep 24, 1543
COPERNICOUS PUBLISHES HELIOCENTRIC
Copernicus proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the Solar System. Such a model is called a heliocentric system. -
HOBBES PUBLISHES LEVATHAN
Leviathan is a sea monster referenced in the Tanakh, or the Old Testament. The word has become synonymous with any large sea monster or creature. In literature it refers to great whales, and in Modern Hebrew, it means simply "whale -
NEWTON PUUBLISHES TREATISE ON LAW OF GRAVITY
Isaac Newton compared the acceleration of the moon to the acceleration of objects on earth. Believing that gravitational forces were responsible for each, Newton was able to draw an important conclusion about the dependence of gravity upon distance. -
THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IS PUBLISHED
The stated aim of the Social Contract is to determine whether there can be a legitimate political authority. In order to accomplish more and remove himself from the state of nature, -
AMERICAN COLONIES DECLARE INDEPENDENCE
We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’ These famous words are all that most people remember of the American Declaration of Independence -
START OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Like the American Revolution before it, the French Revolution was influenced by Enlightenment ideals, particularly the concepts of popular sovereignty and inalienable rights. -
STORMING OF THE BASTILE
two key events in the course of the French Revolution are particularly important to the development of Romantic literature, particularly the Gothic: the fall of the Bastille and the Reign of Terror. The Storming of the Bastille took place on July 14, 1789 as Parisian citizens rioted after the firing of Louis XVI's financial minister, Jacques Nekker, a notable advocate of reform. -
MARY WILLSTONECRAFT PUBLISHES A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN
Many women writers contributed to these debates but none more so than Mary Wollstonecraft. Her essay, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) provided a solid platform for the cause. -
KING LOUIS XVI IS EXECUTED THE REIGEN OF TERROR BEGINS
Louis XVI, king of France, arrived in the wrong historical place at the wrong time and soon found himself overwhelmed by events beyond his control. Ascending the throne in 1774, Louis inherited a realm driven nearly bankrupt through the opulence of his predecessors Louis XIV and XV. -
NAPOLEON CROWNS HIMSELF AS EMPEROR
The work was commissioned by Napoleon orally in September 1804 and its official title is Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 December 1804. Jacques-Louis David started work on 21 December 1805 in the former chapel of the College of Cluny, near the Sorbonne, which served as a workshop
