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Scientific Revolution
Ideas such as the Sun being in the center of the solar system were made, as well as inventions like the telescope and the compound microscope -
Galileo Galilei supports the heliocentric theory
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English War
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Hobbes’s Leviathan is published
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Glorious Revolution
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Locke’s Two Treatises on Government is published
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Enlightenment
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Diderot Publishes First Volumes of Encyclopedia
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Louis XVI’s reign
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American Revolution
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Signing of Declaration of Independence
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National Assembly is formed in France
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Tennis Court Oath
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Declaration of Rights of Man
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Legislative Assembly is formed in France
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Bill of Rights signed
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Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women is published
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Execution of Louis XVI
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Reign of Terror
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Execution of Marrie Antoinette
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Napoleon’s coup
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Enlightenment was resurfaced as a topic
Other countries mostly in Asia started looking into the enlightenment