John Locke-Haley

By hmlnarik

  • John Locke is born in England

  • After studying philosophy, medicine, law, and mathematics and graduating with multiple degrees Locke becomes a very important professor at Oxford Collage

  • Locke reads Rene Descartes' Discourse on the Method and likes what he reads. This work includes the famous quote "I think, therefore I am"

  • After studying philosophy, medicine, law, and mathematics and graduating with multiple degrees Locke becomes a very important professor at Oxford Collage

  • Anthony Ashley "Lord Ashley"

    Anthony Ashley Cooper (Lord Ashley)

  • Locke who is now Ashley's personal physician supervises a liver opperation that saves Lord Ashley's life, and remarkably he lives another 15 years

  • England's Glorious Revolution; Locke is welcomed by the new king and returns to England

  • Locke writes his first draft of The Essay Concerning Human Understanding, in it are ideas on natural law; Based partially on the writngs of others

  • Locke's begins to write and promote the idea of a Social Contract, he may not be the first with the idea but his social status will make the idea popular

  • Locke's begins to write and promote the idea of a Social Contract, he may not be the first with the idea but his social status will make the idea popular

  • Locke's ideas about revolution against a government are linked to a plot to kill the king. Locke flees to Holland, many that agreed with him and Lord Ashley are arrested for treason and some are killed

  • Locke's ideas about revolution against a government are linked to a plot to kill the king. Locke flees to Holland, many that agreed with him and Lord Ashley are arrested for treason and some are killed

  • England's Glorious Revolution; Locke is welcomed by the new king and returns to England

  • Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke is published

  • Locke meets Sit Isaac Newton and they become friends

  • Locke meets Sir Isaac Newton and they become friends

  • Two Treaties of Civil Government by John Locke is published

  • Locke is appointed to British board of trade, and even though his health is failing, he is it's most influential member

  • John Locke dies

  • Thomas Jefferson borrows John Lockes's ideas to write the Declaration of Independance