Age Of Revolution

  • 815

    Battle of Waterloo: End of Napoleon’s Rule

  • 1509

    Nicolaus Copernicus developed heliocentric theory

  • Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

  • Johannes Kepler discovered planetary motion

  • Galileo Galilei used telescope to support heliocentric theory

  • William Harvey discovered circulation of the blood

  • Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan

  • Isaac Newton formulated law of gravity

  • Reign of Peter the Great of Russia

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Glorious Revolution

  • John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government

  • End of Glorious Revolution

  • English Bill of Rights

  • End of John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government

  • Voltaire Birth

  • End of Reign of Peter the Great of Russia

  • Reign of Louis XIV of France

  • Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws

  • birth Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract

  • American Revolution

  • Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence

  • Voltaire death

  • end of American Revolution

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • death Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Reign of Terror

  • Execution of Louis XVI

  • Napoleon becomes Emperor

  • Congress of Vienna

  • Eugène Delacroix: Painted Liberty leading the people

  • Unsuccessful revolutions of 1848