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John Locke was born in England
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After Studying Philosopy, law, medicine, and mathematics and graduating form Oxford with multiple degress and locke becomes a very important professer.
this event goes through 1652-1664 -
Locke reads Rene Descartes' Discourse on the Method and likes what he is reading. This work includes the very often heard famous quate " I think, Therefore I am"
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Anthony Ashley Cooper "Lord Ashley" who is an very important British Politician meets and befriends John Locke.
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Locke who is now Lord Ashley's personal physician watches a liver operation that eventually saves Lord Ashley's life and gratefully he lives another 15 years.
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Because of Lord Ashley's contribution to the new British colonies in America, Locke is aksed to write the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina.
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Locke writes his first draft of the Essay Corncerning Human Understanding, in it are ideas on Natural Law; based particialy on the writings of others.
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Locke begins to start writing and promote the interesting idea of a social contact, he may not be the very first with the idea but his social status will make this very idea populat then ever before.
this event goes through 1679-1680 -
Locke's ideas about revolution against a government are related to a plot to kill the king. Locke then flees Holland, many that agreed with him and Lord Ashley are arrested and some are even killed.
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England's Glorious Revolution; Locke is greeted and welcomed by the new king and he returns to England.
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding published, and wriiten by John Locke
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Locke meets Sir Isaac Newton and they become friends just like Locke and Lord Ashley did.
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Twp Treatises of Civil Govrnment by John Locke was published
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Locke is assigned to the British Board of Trade and though his health was not up to standards he is the most influential member.
goes through 1696-1700 -
John Locke dies
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Thomas Jefferson borrows from Locke's ideas to write the Declaration of Independence