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Nicolaus Copernicus, Copernicus proposed from his observations that the planets of the solar system revolved around the sun, not Earth
Returns to France and raised another army
but suffers final defeat at Waterloo.
The Boston Massacre. Three persons were killed
immediately and two died later of their wounds
Mary Astell wrote Serious Proposal to the Ladies. This stated that women needed to become better educated.
Makes himself emperor of France
Immanuel Kant publishes his Critique of Pure Reason, his analysis of the human mind and how it relates to nature.
Meeting of the Estates General: May of 1789 with a purpose to solve the Monarchy´s financial crisis. There were three classes represented by the Estates General: the nobles, clergy and the rest of the population or the Third Estate.
March on Versailles: October 5 of 1789. Many people, that were hungry marched from Paris to the Palace of Versailles,( mostly women) convinced that the royal family lived in luxury. The crowed wanted the King and his family to go back to Paris and live among the people. He agreed.
Napoleon defends the National convention from royalists.
Isaac Newton, His work in astronomy helped to define the laws of motion & gravity
Invaded Russia and loses 400,000 men
Philosopher Condorcet published a treatise on the rights of women. He said that women have the same natural rights as men.
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.
Massachusetts,The British responded by imposing
punitive laws "The Coercive Acts", following
which people in the other colonies
rallied behind Massachusetts.
Galileo was able to confirm the Sun structure when he used a telescope and by himself design it and build
Napoleon seizes control of the government
Armed conflict begins between British troops and colonial militiamen off the armed conflict
Gives up his trone and is exiled
The beginning of the French Revolution! AND END OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Montesquieu published Persian Letters. Reason used to liberate the mind.
Boston Tea Party in which patriots destroyed
a consignment of taxed tea from the Parliament-controlled and favored East India Company.
End of Thirty Years war and start of Enlightenment
American colonies. Members of American colonial
society rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them and create other laws affecting them,
without colonial representatives In the government.
The Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American
colonies and later the United States.
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March on Versailles: October 5 of 1789. Many people, that were hungry marched from Paris to the Palace of Versailles,( mostly women) convinced that the royal family lived in luxury. The crowed wanted the King and his family to go back to Paris and live among the people. He agreed.
Loses The Battle of Trafalgar
The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. The Continental Congress named a five-member commission (John Adams, Benjamin
Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Laurens.
Laurens) was captured by a British warship and held in the Tower of London until the end of the war,
With Napoleon as leader, the Revolution ended, and France entered a fifteen-year period of military rule.
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