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Feb 19, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer and mathematician, who brought forward the heliocentric theory, he believed that the Earth rotated daily on its axis and translated yearly around a stationary sun, concluding that the sun, not the earth, is the center of the solar system. Disagreeing with the church’s mistaken teachings about this topic. -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) German astronomer who questioned the ancient thought of Aristotle, trough research he managed to prove them wrong, by stablishing the laws of planetary motion, laws -
The Enlightenment and the scientific revolution
The Enlightenment (15th-18th century) was the product of a huge set of cultural and intellectual changes in Europe, thinkers, astronomers, mathematicians, philosophers, physicists, chemists, etc. changed the human thinking process.
The Scientific Revolution (16th-17th century) was one of the most important changes that occurred during the Enlightenment, during this period of time physics, philosophy, earth science, astronomy, and mathematics all experienced bold new innovation granted by the enc -
Issac Newton
Isaac Newton. (1642-1727) mathematician and physicist who stablished the laws of motion and universal gravitation, made important discoveries in optics, concluding that white light is composed by colors, and many other contributions in the fields of calculus, mathematics and philosophy -
King Luis XVI
King of France who married the archiduchess Maria Antonieta. When he became the King he had to deal with the deficit that the country had, that became a challenge that he couldnt handle.
Louis XVI was guillotined in the Revolution Square in january 21, 1793.
His last words where : "People, I die innocent! " -
Maria antonieta
Maria Antonieta was a princess and married the King LUIS XVI. She most of the time was on partys and she will always spend a lot of money. People talked bad about her because she wasnt a example of how a princess should be like, and she was unfaithful to the king Luis XVI. -
Robespierre
Politician from the French revolution who established the reign of terror and who didnt agree with the monarquy. -
King George III
He was the of great Britain during the American revolution and many of his parliament taxes ideas were the reason of the war. -
Josephine Bonaparte
Josephine Bonaparte- Napoleons wife(it helped napoleon to rise to power) -
Arthur wellesley
Arthur Wellesley- He defeated napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. -
The American revolution
– France and Great Britain fought one another in North America, which was an expensive victory for the British, so the wanted the colonists to pay part of that cost. But the colonist felt they already pay it fighting and threatened. – The colonist started protesting because of the great amount of taxes they were told to pay. – Washington's people received help from different countries such as Spain, Netherlands and France. With the help of them America was able to get independence. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson- wrote the declaration of independence. -
The Enlightenment (Repercussions)
– 17th century thinkers often questioned the authority of organized religion, intellectual circles began to put the concepts of religious belief to question, causing church to lose the influence it had over people.
–During the 17th and 18th century the developments that had formerly occurred, resulted in people’s general beliefs of absolute monarchy “infallibility” (a divine right granted by God, according to the ideas in those times) to weaken; in other words, people stopped thinking monarch. -
George Washington
–During the war of independence he was the General of american people, after the war he becomes the new country´s president. -
French Revolution.
The revoution was during the empire of the King Luis XVI. The main problems of the country were that the economy was ruined, te poor people often suffer from financial problems, the bourgeoisie wanted access to public office and the peasants were tired of feudal power.
The consecuences were that the feudal power got destroyed, nobody wanted a monarquy, it came the creation of a liberal republic and the declaration of the rights od man and citizens spread. -
French reolution
The end of the french revolution was on november 9 of 1799. -
Napoleonic empire
Napoleon coronation as emperor was in the year 1804 until the fateful invasion of Russia in 1812.
After napoleon became emperoro he started his plan to conquer Europe and particularly his rival: Great Britain.
When everything started to go as it was plan Napoleon plans were successful, the huge expansion ny France into Italian and german lands alarmed the rest of Europe.
After a few years napoleon decided to take Russia but he failed cause russians were burning everything in its path. -
Napoleon Jose Carlon Bonaparte
Napoleons son(Napoleon offered to step down in favor of his son.) -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon bonaparte die in a place call Santa Helena where he got exiled.
