Age of Revolutions

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  • 1515

    William Harvey discovered circulation of the blood.

  • 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus developed heliocentric theory.

  • Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

  • Johannes Kepler discovered planetary motion.

  • Galileo Galilei used telescope to support heliocentric theory.

  • Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan

  • Reign of Louis XIV of France

  • Voltaire

  • Reign of Peter the Great of Russia:

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Isaac Newton formulated law of gravity.

  • Glorious Revolution (William and Mary)

  • English Bill of Rights of 1689

  • John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government:

  • Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract:

  • American Revolution

  • Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • Reign of Terror

  • Execution of Louis XVI

  • Congress of Vienna

  • Napoleon becomes Emperor

  • Battle of Waterloo: End of Napoleon’s Rule

  • Eugène Delacroix: Painted Liberty leading the people

  • Unsuccessful revolutions of 1848