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JohnLocke is born in Engand
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After studying Phliosophy, medicine, nlaw, and mathematics and greduating with multiple degrees, Locke becomes a ver important professor at Oxford College
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Locke read's Rene Descarte's 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 politician meets and befriends Locke
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Locke, who is now Ashley's personal physician supervises a liver surgey 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 Brittish Colonies in America, Locke is asked to write the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina
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Locke writes the first draft of The Essay Concerning Human Uderstanding.In it, are ideas of natral law, based partially on the writings of others.
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Locke begins to write and promote the idea of a Social Contract, he may not be the first with this idea, but his social status will make the idea popular
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Locke's ideas about a 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 returnes 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 Treatisies Of Civil Government by John Locke 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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John Locke dies
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Thomas Jefferson uses Locke's ideas to write the Declaration of Independence