Enlightenment Project

By mkulliver

  • Thirty Years' War Begins

    War begins

  • Thirty Years' War Ends

    The war is the most apparentcause of the Enlightenment.

  • Thomas Hobbs releases Leviathan

    Thomas Hobbs was the first major enlightenment figure.

  • Isaac Newton published Principia Mathematica

  • Instalation of William and Mary

    English protestants overthrew Catholic James II and called Protestant Willam and Marry to takethe thrown.

  • John Locke wrote his Essay Concerning Human Understanding

  • Bill of Rights passed

    The Bill of Rights is an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689 in the wake of the Glorious Revolution.

  • John Locke releasses Two Treatises of Government

    His book had completely different ideas and views on life as Hobbs.

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote The Social Contract

  • Diderot’s “Encyclopédie”

    35 volumes published from 1751-77

  • The French Revolution