The Age of Enlightenment & the most important events in my opinion

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    Enlightment Age of Reason

    It is an intellectual movement in 17th and 18th Century Europe. When new ideas about man and etc. started to sprout and new ideas came to life.
  • Galileio proving Heliocentric

    Galileio proving Heliocentric
    He proved it by observations of other planets. The church did not like his idea of heliocentric but he was right. Then so he changed astronomy itself well kind of.
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    The Thirty Years War

    Horribly destructive war which lasted 30 years (pretty self explanatory) compelled german writers to criticize about nationalism and warfare, and if it was the right choice to do. Some of examples of these authors are Hugo Grotius & John Comenius.
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    All of Newtons Discoveries

    He made a decimating impact in the age of enlightment. He discovered gravity, invented calculus, etc. he is the tree of the age of enlightment aka science & math genius.
  • Charles I Dethroned

    Charles I Dethroned
    The English Parliament overthrew Charles I because they did not agree of his rule. Charles was then defeated in the 2nd Civil War of England.
  • Hobbes published Leviathan

    Hobbes published Leviathan
    He just wrotea about political stuff and also stating that a person can have the right to rule and care for the people. It was inspired by the fear of politics.
  • The Exctinction of the Dodo Bird

    A majesetic creature indeed. In some text it is considered when cook is delicous but it is hunter so often that it died out around the time that i set. Alot were hunted and the others died to new species introduced by man.
  • Peter the Great, Czar of Russia

    Peter the Great, Czar of Russia
    He is a king that wanted to make Russia more advanced. He succeded a little bit but still thought that Russia still wasn't powerful enough so he learned by observing the rest of Europe
  • The Philosopher Letter

    Written by Voltaire sended to england, it talked about his life. Mostly of his personal experiances and his thoughts
  • Montesque published "The Spirit of the Laws"

    Montesque published "The Spirit of the Laws"
    He wrote about the amount of power the government has and he also thought that states of different sizes should be ruled differently and have a limit certain limit of power.
  • Diderot written the Encyclopedia

    Diderot written the Encyclopedia
    A writer and a hater of christianity. He wrote about the ideas of enlightenment or also known as "reason". It had content of how things work and it took 28 years to write. He wrote this due to his influence of the french revolution later on through the years.
  • Voltaire publishes "Candide"

    A writer, a historian, you can call him many things like a church hater. The book talked about optimistic men, religion and politics which then got banned becaues it talked about religion.
  • Joseph II becomes king of Australia

    A wealthy and powerful king, which got rid of torture and execution in Australia. He also ruled the country/continent in a much more different maner than others.
  • The Start of the French Revolution

    King Lous XVI gets overthrown. The social base of liberalism and other thoughts of reason started pop up more often and during this time was also the rise of Napoleon.
  • Estate General

    It was a very humongous and important assembly of people to discuss solving France's problems with finance. It consisted of 3 groups The Clergy, Nobility and the Commons. They kept having conflict which then led to the French Revolution.