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Period: 1543 to
The Scientific Revolution
During the 16th century the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe reject the Ptolemaic and Copernican system, he was responsible for major changes in the observation about the planets.
At the beginning of the 17th century Johannes Kepler a German astronomer, placed the Copernican hypothesis on the firm astronomical. -
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The Enlightenment
Was an European intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th centuries were God, reason, nature and humanity were synthesized into a worldview. -
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Enlightened Despotism
Form of government in the 18th century which absolute monarchs pursued the legal, social and educational reforms inspired by the Enlightenment. -
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The USA Independence
The U.S.A history document which was approved by the Continental Progress on July 4 in 1776, also announced the the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. -
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The French Revolution
The French Revolution had the most violent and the most universally significant of these revolutions. The first of the general causes was the social structure of the West, the increasingly numerous and prosperous elite of wealthy commoner-merchants, manufacturers, and professionals, often called the bourgeoisie.