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15 BCE
All Weather Roads
Were created to improve year round transport and trade -
12
Peter l
Became the czar of Russia -
12
The Magna Carta
Was signed establishing the foundations of English rights -
12
Charles l of England
Was beheaded -
12
Oliver Cromwell
Began His Rule of England as the Lord Protector -
12
The Restoration of Charles ll
The monarchy was put back in control in England -
12
James ll
Became the King of England -
12
William and Mary
Became the leaders of England (This is referred to as the Glorious Revolution) -
12
The English Bill of Rights
Was passed laying out specific right on Parliament and putting limits on royal power -
12
Francois-Marie Arouet
changed his name to Voltaire and goes on to champion individual freedoms -
12
The French Revolution
Began having been influenced by the Enlightenment and the American Revolution -
12
Marie Antoinette was executed
at the guillotine -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo
Use the telescope to support the proof of the heliocentric -
Apr 1, 1578
William Harvey
Showed that the heart acted as a pump to circulate blood through the body -
Thomas Hobbes
Published Leviathan-social contract(people give up rights to a strong ruler who maintained order) -
The Baroque Period
Began in art,music, and architecture (Bach and Handel were composers) -
John Locke
Published Two Treaties on Government- it was his theory of "natural rights" (life, liberty, and property) -
Louis XIV
Became the king of France -
The English Civil War
Began between the Roundheads (Supporters of Parliament) and the Cavaliers (Supporters of the King) -
Isaac Newton
Published his law of gravity -
The Westernization of Russia
Was started by Peter the Great -
Montesquieu
Published On the Spirit of Laws- detailing separation of powers in government -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Wrote the Social Contract -Free individuals created a society and government -
The Classical Period
Began in art,music, and architecture (Haydn,Mozart, and Beethoven were composers) -
St. Petersburg
Became the capital of Russia under Peter the Great -
Thomas Jefferson
Wrote the Declaration of Independence -
Nicolaus Copernicus
Developed the heliocentric theory -
Edward Jenner
Introduced a vaccine to prevent small pox -
The American Revolution
Began which was heavily influenced by the Age of Enlightenment -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Seized power in France in a coup d'etat -
The Palace of Versailles
Was built under the religion of Louis XIV -
The Storming of the Bastille
Was the symbolic start of the French Revolution -
The Bill of Rights
(First 10 amendments) was added to the Constitution of the United States -
The Reign of Terror
Marked a period of mass execution during the French Revolution -
Louis XVI was executed
At the guillotine -
The Age of Reason
(The Enlightenment) Began -
Eugene Delacroix
Began the transition of art to the Romantic School -
The Novel
Became a new form of literature (Miguel Cervantes wrote Don Quixote) -
The Constitution
Was ratified on the United States -
Johannes Kepler
Discovered planetary motion v
