World History by Ian Crofton

Author:Ian Crofton [Crofton, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781623651947
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2013-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

timeline

1637 Descartes outlines his system of methodical doubt in Discourse on Method

1686–7 Newton states his laws of motion and gravitation in Principia Mathematica

1688–9 Constitutional monarchy established in England

1690 Locke states empiricist case in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and in Two Treatises of Government defends the right of a people to overthrow any ruler who fails to protect their rights

1734 Voltaire champions English values and ideas in Philosophical Letters

1740 Hume develops empiricist philosophy in his Treatise of Human Nature

1740–86 Reign of Frederick the Great of Prussia

1748 Montesquieu publishes Spirit of the Laws

1751–72 Publication of the Encyclopédie in 28 volumes

1759 Voltaire publishes Candide, a satirical fable

1762 In his Social Contract, Rousseau states that sovereignty resides in the people as a whole, while in Émile, his novel about education, he expounds his idea that it is only society that corrupts innate human goodness

1762–96 Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia

1764 Publication of Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary and Beccaria’s Crimes and Punishments

1769 Dissolution of hundreds of monasteries in Austria

1773 Suppression of the Jesuits

1775–83 American Revolutionary War

1776 American Declaration of Independence. Adam Smith states the case for free markets in his Wealth of Nations.

1780–90 Reign of Joseph II of Austria

1788 Ratification of US Constitution

1789 Beginning of French Revolution and drafting of Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

1791 Ratification of US Bill of Rights (first ten amendments to the Constitution)

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