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  • John Locke is born

    John Locke is born

    in England
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    Locke becomes a very important professor at Oxford College

    After studying philosophy, medicine, law, and mathematics and graduating with multiple degrees

  • Reads Discourse

  • Anthony Ashley Cooper ʺLord Ashleyʺ

    who is an important British politician meets and befriends Locke

  • Locke who is now Lord Ashley's personal physician

    supervises a liver operation that saves Lord Ashley's life and remarkably he lives another 15 years
  • Locke is asked to write the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina

    Locke is asked to write the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina

    Because of Lord Ashley's involvement in the new British colonies in America

  • Locke writes his first draft of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding

    in it are ideas on Natural Law; based partially on the writings of others
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    Locke's begins to write and promote the idea of a Social Contract,

    he may not be the first with the idea but his social status will make the idea popular

  • Locke flees to Holland

    Locke's ideas about revolution against a government are linked to a plot to kill the king. Many that agreed with him and Lord Ashley are arrested for treason and some are killed

  • England's Glorious Revolution;

    Locke is welcomed by the new king and returns to England

  • Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke is published

  • Locke meets Sir Isaac Newton and they become friends

  • Two Treatises of Civil Government

    by John Locke is published
  • Period: to

    Locke is appointed to the British Board of Trade

    and even though his health is failing he is its most influential member
  • John Locke dies

    John Locke dies

  • Thomas Jefferson borrows from Locke's ideas

    to write the Declaration of Independence