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Jul 27, 1543
Heliocentric theory by copernicus
The heliocentric model and theory is a theory that places the Sun as the center of the universe, and the planets orbiting around it.This idea prove the geocentric theory wrong. The geocentric theory say that earth was in the center. -
Hobbes Publishes Leviathan
Evidence reported by scanner-scott-cairns for item hobbessleviathan00hobbuoft on Aug 25, 2006; no visible notice of copyright and date found; stated date is 1909; not published by the US government; Have not checked for notice of renewal in the Copyright renewal records. -
Law Of Gravity by Newton
Isaac Newton compared the acceleration of the moon to the acceleration of objects on earth. Believing that gravitational forces were responsible for each, Newton was able to draw an important conclusion about the dependence of gravity upon distance.'There was non old ideas. This prove the gravity is holding the earth..... -
The social contract is published
The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate; as Rousseau asserts, only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right. -
American Colonies Declare Independence
On this day in 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed the independence of a new United States of America from Great Britain and its king. This happent because the king tex people too much. Because of the tex the people did not have money for food. -
Start of the French Revolution
King Louis XVI needed money. His financial crisis forced the French monarch to reluctantly convene the Estates General in order to levy a new land tax that would hopefully solve his monetary woes. It had been 175 years since the last meeting of this deliberative body that included representatives of three Estates: the First comprised of the clergy, the Second comprised of the nobility and the Third comprised of the middle and lower classes. The 3rd estade win the war they cut the king head. -
Storming of the bastille
The time was half past three, on the famous date of July 14, 1789. A huge, bloodthirsty mob marched to the Bastille, searching for gun powder and prisoners that had been taken by the unpopular and detested King, Louis XVI. Even elements of the newly formed National Guard were present at the assault. The flying rumors of attacks from the government and the biting truth of starvation were just too much for the angry crowds. The Bastille had been prepared for over a week, anticipating about a hundred angry subjects and along the thick rock walls of the gargantuan fortress and between the towers were twelve more guns that were capable of launching 24-ounce case shots at any who dared to attack. -
Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft preached that intellect will always govern and sought “to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonimous [sic] with epithets of weakness.” -
the reign of terror begin
Instead of a democracy the Convention established a war dictatorship operating through the Committee of Public Safety, the Committee of General Security, and numerous agencies such as the Revolutionary Tribunal. Known to history as the Reign of Terror, this period represented the efforts of a few men to govern the country and wage war in a time of crisie. -
Napoeieon crowns himself as emperor
In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head.
