Unit 2 Timeline: Enlightenment and Revolutions

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  • 1543

    Scientific Revolution (Start)

  • Galileo Galilei supports the heliocentric theory

  • English Civil War (Start)

  • English Civil War (End)

  • Hobbes’s Leviathan is published

  • Scientific Revolution (End)

  • Glorious Revolution

  • Locke’s Two Treatises of Government is published

  • Enlightenment (Start)

  • Louis XVI’s reign (Start)

  • Diderot Publishes First Volumes of Encyclopedia

  • Louis XVI’s reign (End)

  • Lexington and Concord

  • American Revolution (Start)

  • Declaration of Independence

  • American Revolution (End)

  • Enlightenment (End)

  • National Assembly is formed in France

  • Declaration of Rights of Man

  • Tennis Court Oath

  • Bill of Rights signed

  • Legislative Assembly is formed in France

  • Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women is published

  • Execution of Louis XVI

  • Reign of Terror (Start)

  • Execution of Marrie Antoinette

  • Reign of Terror (End)

  • Napoleon’s coup