Unit 2 Timeline: Enlightenment and Revolutions

By AshleeBrannen
  • Period: 1543 to

    Scientific Revolution

    This was significant because everyone found a new way of thinking and doing things. It ultimately made people question the church.

  • Galileo Galilei supports the heliocentric theory

    Him believing in the heliocentric theory was the start of the scientific revolution. This led to the enlightenment and a chain of events.
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    English Civil War

    This ended the divine right of kings and laid the groundwork for the modern UK parliament and monarchy.

  • Hobbes’s Leviathan is published

    This presents the idea of social contract.

  • Glorious Revolution

  • Locke’s Two Treatises on Government is published

    Locke believed the government’s duty to protect natural laws. He believed in equality for everyone. John Locke’s idea of natural rights attempted to redefine the political identity of the Medieval Era and contradict the divine right by introducing the idea that all men are born free and equal to each other.
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    Enlightenment

    This was significant because Enlightenment thinkers questioned traditional authority. The traditional authority was that the church was always right.

  • Diderot Publishes First Volumes of Encyclopedia

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    Louis XVI’s reign

    He was the one spending all the money. Right after his reign ended the society started to get better.

  • Lexington and Concord

    This was the start of the American revolution war.
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    American Revolution

    American colonists fought against the British government for independence.

  • Declaration of Independence

    It shows the ideal society people wanted. This was used to explain why people wanted freedom.

  • National Assembly is formed in France

    The third estate demanded change for being treated so poorly. This was significant because the third estate still didn't get what they wanted so that led to them getting angry and bigger things happened.

  • Declaration of Rights of Man

    King Louis XVI was basically forced to sign this. This laid the foundation to future political factors such as universal male suffrage and the end of the separation of people through social classes.

  • Tennis Court Oath

    The third estate have had enough and wanted a new constitution.

  • Legislative Assembly is formed in France

    This played a great part at this time because it made a constitutional monarchy with Louis XVI as the king which later got demolished, meaning that there was absolutely no monarchy left.

  • Bill of Rights signed

    This ensured everyone freedom of speech and freedom.

  • Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women is published

  • Execution of Marrie Antoinette

    Some of Frances debt might go away because she is not there to spend money anymore.
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    Reign of Terror

    This was important because it got rid of anyone who did not support the revolution in a brutal way.

  • Execution of Louis XVI

    Ends Louis XVI's reign and is the beginning of the Reign of terror.

  • Napoleon’s coup

    This was known as the end of the French revolution.