Locke becomes familiar with some of Rene Descartes work, including "I think, therefore I am."
An important british politician named "Lord Ashley" meets and befriends Locke.
Locke, who is now Ashley's physician, supervises Ashley's liver transplant and saves his life.
Because of Ashley's involvement in the American colonies, Lock is asked to write the Fundamental Consitution of Carolina
Locke writes his first draft of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Locke's status makes the idea of a Social Contract popular
Locke's ideas about people revolting against a government are linked to a plot to kill the king. Locke flees to Holland, and people that agreed with him and Lord Ashley are arrested.
England's Revolution happens. Locke is welcomed by the new king and returns.
Essay Concerning Human Understanding is published
Locke meets Sir Isaac Newton and they become friends
Two Treatises of Civil Government is published
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Locke is appointed to the British Board of Trade and is its most influential member
John Locke dies.
Jefferson borrows some of the ideas from Lockes books to write the Declaration of Iindependence
