Age Of Enlightenment

By hcps-pattersm2@henricostudents.org
  • 1542

    Nicolaus Copernicus developed heliocentric theory

  • Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

  • Johannes Kepler discovered planetary motion

  • William Harvey discovered circulation of the blood

  • Reign of Louis XIV of France

  • Galileo Galilei used telescope to support heliocentric theory.

  • Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan

  • Isaac Newton formulated law of gravity.

  • Reign of Peter the Great of Russia

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Glorious Revolution

  • English Bill of Rights of

  • John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government

  • Voltaire

  • Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract

  • American Revolution

  • Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • Execution of Louis XVI

  • Reign of Terror

  • Napoleon becomes Emperor

  • Congress of Vienna

  • Battle of Waterloo: End of Napoleon’s Rule

  • Eugène Delacroix: Painted Liberty leading the people

  • Unsuccessful revolutions of 1848