history timeline By daron24.kid 1554 Nicolaus Copernicus developed heliocentric theory.1554 1605 Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote 1605 1605 Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote 1605 1609 Johannes Kepler discovered planetary motion. 1609 1609 Galileo Galilei used telescope to support heliocentric theory. 1609 1628 William Harvey discovered circulation of the blood. 1628 1651 Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan 1651 1672 Reign of Peter the Great of Russia: 1672 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 1687 Isaac Newton formulated law of gravity. 1687 1688 Glorious Revolution (William and Mary) 1688 1689 English Bill of Rights of 1689 1689 John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government: 1689 1694 Voltaire 1694 1715 Reign of Louis XIV of France 1715 1748 Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws 1748 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 1756 1762 Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract: 1762 1775 American Revolution 1775 1776 Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence 1776 1789 Storming of the Bastille 1789 1793 Execution of Louis XVI 1793 1794 Reign of Terror 1794 1804 Napoleon becomes Emperor 1804 1814 Congress of Vienna 1814 1815 Battle of Waterloo: End of Napoleon’s Rule 1815 1830 Eugène Delacroix: Painted Liberty leading the people1830 1848 Unsuccessful revolutions of 1848