Scientific Revolution

The enlightenment
1. 1651-Hobbes publishes leviathan
2. 1660- Locke publish Two Treatises on Government.
3. 1751-Voltaire published The Age of Louis XIV
4. 1762-Rousseau published The Social Contract, Emile. Attempt to unite the liberty of the individual with the authority of the government. Emile was important for education.
5. 1789- The beginning of the French Revolution!
6. French revolution
  1. 1774-Louis XVI, age nineteen, ascends to the throne as the state nears bankruptcy
  2. 1775- Flour War rebels demonstrate in front of the Palace of Versailles.
  3. 1788-Orders for the arrest of two Parisian parlementaires, d'Eprémesnil and Goislard, who are most implacably opposed to the government reforms, are issued; the parlement declares its solidarity with the two magistrates
  4. 1799-Constitution of the Year VIII - leadership of Napoleon established under the Consulate. French Revolution may be considered ended.
  5. The US Independence
    1. 1774-the First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia with 56 delegates, representing every colony, except Georgia. Attendants include Patrick Henry, George Washington, Sam Adams and John Hancock.
    2. 1775-General Gage orders 700 British soldiers to Concord to destroy the colonists' weapons depot. That night, Paul Revere and William Dawes are sent from Boston to warn colonists. Revere reaches Lexington about midnight and warns Sam Adams and John Hancock who are hiding out there.
    3. 1776- San Francisco is established by Spanish missionaries on the California coast
    4. 1776- Washington takes his troops across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. The next day, over concerns of a possible British attack, the Continental Congress abandons Philadelphia for Baltimore.
    5. 1783-In Virginia, the House of Burgesses grants freedom to slaves who served in the Continental Army

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