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Period: Sep 19, 1530 to
Begining to end
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Sep 18, 1543
The heliocentric theory
Nicolaus Copernicus was convinced that Earth was also a planet. Like all other planets he suggested that Earth rotates just like the rest of the planets. -
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes published this book.This was written during the English civil war.This book was about the government and how it should be. -
Law of Gravity
Isaac Newton gave the name of gravity. This law spread around the world after it's publishment. -
Social Contract
This was a name for a theory. This theory went over the questions of their government. -
American Colonies
American colonists wanted indepence from Britain.Britian began to tax heavily and unfairly.The American colonists successfully gained independence. -
Storming of the Bastille
A huge mob stormed to Bastille. They took gun powder and prisoner. -
French Revolution
French revolution started in 1789 and ended in the late 1790's. Citizens reshaped their political landscape. -
Rights for women
Mary Wollstonecraft wanted equal educational rights for women like men. She wanted women to have an equal say in marriage also. Her beliefs weren't taken to notice untill about 100 years after her death. -
The death of a king
King louis XVI had the french people angry. Under his ruleing the economy went down. Crops had died and the price of food increased ridiculously. He married a foreigner named Marie Antoinette. -
Napoleon the emperor
Napoleon didnt want to be a king. To be a king is to descend from someone else.
