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English Civil War overthrows Charles I, installs Cromwell
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Hobbes publishes Leviathan
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Glorious Revolution unseats James II, installs William and Mary
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English Bill of Rights drafted
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Locke publishes Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government
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Louis XIV dies; Louis XV takes French throne
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Montesquieu publishes The Spirit of Laws
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Hume publishes An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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Diderot publishes first volume of Encyclopédie
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Voltaire publishes Candide
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Rousseau publishes The Social Contract
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Watt invents improved steam engine
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Rousseau finishes Confessions
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Goethe publishes The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Smith publishes Wealth of Nations
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Kant publishes Critique of Pure Reason Fea
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De Gouges publishes Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
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Kant publishes Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
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Goethe publishes first part of Faust
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Goethe publishes second part of Faust
