The Enlightenment

By colemcnew1

  • The Fronde a power grab between King Louis XIV and cardinal Mazarin

  • Charles I is executed ending the monarchy in England

  • Thomas Hobbes publishes leviathan

  • Robert Hooke Discovers Cells

  • Jean Baptiste Colbert founds the Academie Des Sciences

  • Issac Newton Publishes "Principia de Mathmaticas"

  • James II flees England after glorious revolution

    This is seen as an abdication

  • John locke publishes "Two Treatises on Government"

  • George I takes the throne

  • Mary wortley montagu publishes "The Turkish Embassy letters"

    Observing vaccinations for small pox and septicemia in the ottoman empire

  • Johnathan Swift publishes "A modest proposal"

    Battering the English government through satire

  • Alexander Pope publishes "essay on man"

  • David Hume publishes "Essays, Moral, political, and literary"

  • Voltaire publishes "Candide"

  • George III succeeds the throne

  • Rousseau publishes "social contract"

  • The American Revolution

  • Death of Rousseau and Voltaire

  • Gordon Anti Catholic Riots

    Riot ending with 300 casualties that fought against the growing anti catholic nature in England

  • The Estates General meets in France

    The estates of france had not met since 1614. rebellion loomed

  • Storming of The Bastille

  • The Haitian revolution

  • Louis XVI is executed ending the monarch in France

  • Napoleon ascends to the Throne as emperor

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