World history

  • 1543

    Scientific Revolution start

  • Galileo Galilei supports the heliocentric theory

  • English Civil War start

  • Hobbes’s Leviathan is published

  • English Civil War end

  • Scientific Revolution end

  • Glorious Revolution

  • Locke’s Two Treatises on Government is published

  • Enlightenment start

  • Diderot Publishes First Volumes of Encyclopedia

  • Lexington and Concord

  • American Revolution start

  • Declaration of Independence

  • American Revolution end

  • Enlightenment end

  • Louis XVI’s reign start

  • Declaration of Rights of Man

  • National Assembly is formed in France

  • Tennis Court Oath

  • Legislative Assembly is formed in France

  • Bill of Rights signed

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

  • Louis XVI’s reign end

  • Execution of Louis XVI

  • Reign of Terror start

  • Execution of Marrie Antoinette

  • Reign of Terror end

  • Napoleon’s coup