Unit 2 Timeline: Enlightenment and Revolutions

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  • Period: 1543 to

    Scientific Revolution

    Ideas such as the Sun being in the center of the solar system were made, as well as inventions like the telescope and the compound microscope

  • Galileo Galilei supports the heliocentric theory

    A book was written by Galileo to prove Copernicus' theory
  • Period: to

    English War

  • Hobbes’s Leviathan is published

  • Period: to

    Glorious Revolution

  • Locke’s Two Treatises on Government is published

  • Period: to

    Enlightenment

  • Diderot Publishes First Volumes of Encyclopedia

  • Period: to

    Louis XVI’s reign

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    American Revolution

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Signing of Declaration of Independence

  • National Assembly is formed in France

  • Tennis Court Oath

  • Declaration of Rights of Man

  • Legislative Assembly is formed in France

  • Bill of Rights signed

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

  • Execution of Louis XVI

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    Reign of Terror

  • Execution of Marrie Antoinette

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    Napoleon’s coup

  • Enlightenment was resurfaced as a topic

    Other countries mostly in Asia started looking into the enlightenment