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Date of Birth
John Lockes birth. -
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After studying philosophy, medicine, law, and mathematics and graduating with multiple degrees Locke becomes a very important professor at Oxford College
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Locke reads Rene Descartes' Discourse on the Method and likes what he reads. This work includes the famous quote "I think, therefore I am"
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Anthony Ashley Cooper "Lord Ashley" who is an important British politician meets and befriends Locke
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Locke who is now Lord Ashley's personal physician supervises a liver operation that saves Lord Ashley's life and remarkably he lives another 15 years
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Locke who is now Lord Ashley's personal physician supervises a liver operation that saves Lord Ashley's life and remarkably he lives another 15 years
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Because of Lord Ashley's involvement in the new British colonies in America Locke is asked to write the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina
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John Loke writes his first draft of the essay concerning human understanding.
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Locke's begins to write and promote the idea of a Social Contract, he may not be the first with the idea but his social status will make the idea popular
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Locke's ideas about revolution against a government are linked to a plot to kill the king. Locke flees to Holland, many that agreed with him and Lord Ashley are arrested for treason and some are killed
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England's Glorious Revolution; Locke is welcomed by the new king and returns to England
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke is published
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Locke meets Sir Isaac Newton and they become friends
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"Two Treaseries of the Civil Government" by John Loke is published.
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Locke is appointed to the British Board of Trade and even though his health is failing he is its most influential member
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Date of death
John locke dies -
Tomas Jeferson steals John lockes ideas of goverment to make the Declaration of Independence.
Tomas Jeferson steals