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John Locke was born in England
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After studying philiosiphy, medicine, law, and mathematics and graduationing with multipe degrees Locke becomes an important philosipher at oxford college.
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Locke reads Rene Descartes discourse on the method and likes what he reads. This work includes the famous quote "i think therefore i am"
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Anthony Ashley Cooper "Lord Ashley" who is an important British Politician meets and befriends Locke.
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Locke is now Lord Ashleys personal physician supervises a liver operation that saves Lord Ashleys life and remarkably he lives another 15 years
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Because of Lord Ashleys involvement in the new british colonies in america locke is asked to write the funamental constitution of carolina.
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Locke writes his first draft of the essay concerning human understanding,in it are ideas of natural law, based parcially on the writings of others.
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Locke begins to write and premote the idea of a social contract, he may not be the first with the idea but his social status will make the idea popular.
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Enflands glorious revolution, Locke is welcomed by the new kind and returns to England.
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essay concerning human understanding by John Locke is published.
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Locke meets Sir Issac Newton and they become friends.
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Two treasuries of Civil Government by John Locke is published.
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Locke is appointed to the British board of trade even though his health is failing he is its most influentical member.
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John Locke dies
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Thomas Jefferson borrows from Lockes ideas to write the decloration of independence.
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Lockes ideas about revolution against a government are linked to a plot to kill the king. Locke flees to Holland, many that agreed with him and Lord Ashley are arrested for treason and some are killed.
