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John Locke was born in England
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Locke becomes a professor at Oxford College
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Locke becomes familiar with some of Rene Descartes work, including "I think, therefore I am."
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An important british politician named "Lord Ashley" meets and befriends Locke.
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Locke, who is now Ashley's physician, supervises Ashley's liver transplant and saves his life.
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Because of Ashley's involvement in the American colonies, Lock is asked to write the Fundamental Consitution of Carolina
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Locke writes his first draft of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Locke's status makes the idea of a Social Contract popular
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Locke's ideas about people revolting against a government are linked to a plot to kill the king. Locke flees to Holland, and people that agreed with him and Lord Ashley are arrested.
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England's Revolution happens. Locke is welcomed by the new king and returns.
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding is published
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Locke meets Sir Isaac Newton and they become friends
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Two Treatises of Civil Government is published
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Locke is appointed to the British Board of Trade and is its most influential member
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John Locke dies.
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Jefferson borrows some of the ideas from Lockes books to write the Declaration of Iindependence
