history timeline

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  • 1554

    Nicolaus Copernicus developed heliocentric theory.1554

  • Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote 1605

  • Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote 1605

  • Johannes Kepler discovered planetary motion. 1609

  • Galileo Galilei used telescope to support heliocentric theory. 1609

  • William Harvey discovered circulation of the blood. 1628

  • Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan 1651

  • Reign of Peter the Great of Russia: 1672

  • Johann Sebastian Bach 1685

  • Isaac Newton formulated law of gravity. 1687

  • Glorious Revolution (William and Mary) 1688

  • English Bill of Rights of 1689

  • John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government: 1689

  • Voltaire 1694

  • Reign of Louis XIV of France 1715

  • Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws 1748

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 1756

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract: 1762

  • American Revolution 1775

  • Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence 1776

  • Storming of the Bastille 1789

  • Execution of Louis XVI 1793

  • Reign of Terror 1794

  • Napoleon becomes Emperor 1804

  • Congress of Vienna 1814

  • Battle of Waterloo: End of Napoleon’s Rule 1815

  • Eugène Delacroix: Painted Liberty leading the people1830

  • Unsuccessful revolutions of 1848