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Sep 18, 1543
Copernicus published heliocentric theory
Copernicus theroy was the Heliocentric theory. This theroy was that the earth and the moon and other planets rotated aroun the sun. -
Hobbes publishes Leviathan
Leviathan, Hobbes's most important work and one of the most influential philosophical texts produced during the seventeenth century, was written partly as a response to the fear Hobbes experienced during the political turmoil of the English Civil Wars -
Newton publishes treatise on law of gravity
Issac Newton theroy was gravity. His theroy states that, every point mass -
The Social Contract Is Published
In The Social Contract Rousseau argues that laws are binding only when they are supported by the general will of the people. -
American Colonies Declare of Independence
In 1776 in Philadelphia Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence. It came 442 days after the first shots of American Revolution. -
Start of French Revolution
This Revolution started 1789 and ended in the mid 1790s. French citizens razed and redesigned their country’s political landscape, uprooting centuries-old institutions such as absolute monarchy and the feudal system -
Storming of the Bastille
The Bastille was first used as a state prison in the 17th century and its cells were reserved for upper-class felons, political troublemakers, and spies. People joined together and stormed into the prison and set everyone free all the prisoners and took all the weapons. -
Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Women
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was the first great feminist treatise. 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 with epithets of weakness. -
King Louis XVI is executed; the Reign of Terror begins
Louis XVI was only 19 years old when he ascended the French throne, and his youth and inexperience made him an immature and indecisive leader.The young king’s wife, Marie-Antoinette, bought all kinds of things and payed peple more taxes to get more money to buy things. In January 1793, at the height of the French Revolution, Louis XVI was tried for treason and executed. -
Napoleon crowns himself as emporor
In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Napoleon is crowned 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.
