John Locke trevor

  • John Locke was born in England

  • Locke writes his first draft of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, in it are ideas on Natural Law; based partially on the writings of others

  • two treaties of civil government published

  • A leter concerning toleration is published

  • Two Treatises of Civil Government by John Locke is published

  • Locke publishes Some Thoughts Concerning Education

  • Locke publishes Reasonablness of Christianity

  • Appointed to Board of trade

  • extensive contriversy With Edward Stillingfleet

  • John Locke dies

  • posthomous published

  • Thomas Jefferson borrows from Locke's ideas to write the Declaration of Independence