TOPICS BEFORE THE 19TH CENTURY

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium

  • Publication of Francis Bacon´s NOVUM ORGANUM

  • Issac Newton publishes Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica

  • The American Revolution starts, it arose from tensions between residents and the government.

  • The Revolutionary war ends

  • Immanuel Kant´s critique of pure reason

  • Monarchy in crisis, French´s costly involvement in the Amrican Revolution 2 decades of poor cereal harvest, many people expressed their desperation

  • The French Revolution ends