Age of Revolutions

By lasiaandkeshon
  • 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus developed heliocentric theory

  • Period: 1543 to

    Age of Revolutions

  • 1547

    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.

  • Reign of Louis XIV of France

  • Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan

  • Isaac Newton formulated law of gravity

  • Reign of Peter the Great of Russia:

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

  • English Bill of Rights of 1689

  • John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government

  • Voltaire

  • Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Law

  • 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 And Execution of Louis XVI

  • Eugène Delacroix: Painted Liberty leading the people

  • Napoleon becomes Emperor

  • Congress of Vienna

  • Battle of Waterloo: End of Napoleon’s Rule

  • Unsuccessful revolutions of 1848