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Birth to Death
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1652-1664
After studying Philosophy, medicine, law , and mathemathics and graduating with multiple degrees, Locke becomes a very important professor at Oxford college. -
1665
Locke reads Rene Descarte's Discorse on the method and likes what he reads. This work includes the famous quote , "I think, therefore i am." -
1666
Anthony Ashley Cooper, "Lord Ashley", who is an important British politician, meets and befriends Locke. -
1668
Locke, who is now Lord Ashley's personal physician supervises a liver operation that saves Lord Ashley's life, and he remarkably lives another 15 years. -
1670
Because of Lord Ashley's involvment in the new british colonies in America,Locke is asked to write a Fundamental Consitution of Carolina -
1671
Locke writes his first draft of the essay cancerning human understanding, in it are ideas on natural law; based partially on the writings of others. -
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1679-1680
Locke 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. -
1683
Locke's ideas about revolution against a government are linked in a plot to kill the king. Locke flees to Holland, many that agreed with him, including Lord Ashley are arrested for treason and some are killed. -
1688
Englans Glorious Revolution; Locke is welcomed by the new king and returns to England. -
1689
Essay concerning human understanding by John Locke is published. -
1689
Locke meets Sir Issac Newton, and they become friends. -
1690
Two treaties of civil government by John Locke is published. -
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1696-1700
Locke is appointed to the British board of trade and even though his health is failing, he is its most influential member. -
1776
Thomas Jefferson barrows from Locke's ideas to write the decloration of inpendance