Timeline for World History

By MeganR
  • Feb 7, 1543

    Andreas Vesalius

    Andreas Vesalius
    (Page. 514)
    Andreas used animals rather than humans for disection to find out about bodies.
  • May 1, 1543

    Nicholas Copernicus

    Nicholas Copernicus
    (Page 513.)
    Copernicus published his famous book "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. Copernicus thought he was right on the Sun being in the center, not the earth.
  • May 1, 1543

    Johannes Kepler

    Johannes Kepler
    (Page.514)
    Kepler had showed that the orbits were not circular, they were egg shaped (Elliptical) and that was Keplers first law.

  • Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei
    (Page.514)
    Galileo published "The Starry Messenger" which taught Europeans and made them more aware of the "New World".

  • Descartes

    Descartes
    (Page.516)
    Descartes wrote and published a book called "Discourse on Method" he explained things behind his own mind and reasoned but then started too think again. In which resulted as him starting over.

  • Newton

    Newton
    (Page.514)
    Newtons book "The Principia" explained and defined the Newtons three laws of motion that govern the planetary movements.

  • John Locke

    John Locke
    (Page.518)
    Locke, gave ideas for the enlightenment during the seventeenth century.

  • The First Newspaper

    The First Newspaper
    (Website:http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/newspaper/)
    I got the date from that website.
    The Frist Newspaper helped get the news out too everyone. Thats how people found out what was going on back then.

  • Montesquieu

    Montesquieu
    (Page.520)
    Montesquieu came from the French nobility. Also, he identified the three different types of government :
    -Republics
    -Despotism
    -Monarchies

  • Rosseau

    Rosseau
    (Page.522-523)
    He argued people that always reserved their own private property and that they had become enslaved by the government.

  • Voltaire

    Voltaire
    (Page.520)
    Voltaire, came from a middle class family. He wrote novels, plays, essays, and many more things.

  • Beccaria

    Beccaria
    (Website: http://www.constitution.org/cb/beccaria_bio.htm)
    Beccaria wrote and published a book which was called "On Crimes and Punishments". It helped people understand their "Academy of Fists".
    Which means that it showed people about reforming the Criminal Justice System.

  • Diderot

    Diderot
    (Page,521)
    He became a freelance writer so he could study and read in different languages.

  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith
    (Page.521)
    He did famous work "The work of Nations" he belived the state shouldnt get involved in economic matters.

  • Communism

    Communism
    (Website- http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm) Communism was a sort of "Doctrine of Conditions".

  • Pertaining too Marx

    Pertaining too Marx
    (Page.618)
    Marx belived history was a thing of "Class Struggles".
    Which other people have stood in position of others.

  • World Economy

    World Economy
    (Page.633)
    World economy happened when classes split up from other higher and lower classes.

  • Trade unions

    Trade unions
    (Website:http://www.wisegeek.com/how-did-labor-unions-start.htm) Tade unions started but they didnt have enough people to fulfil them. They needed more.. But they didnt have enough work!