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World History Week 11 Timeline
Created by
Jack Wilson
⟶ Updated 20 Nov 2019 ⟶
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Mid 1500s: Beginning of the Scientific Revolution Some scholars published works that challenged the ideas of ancient thinkers and the church
1543: Copernicus published his heliocentric theory
1609: Kepler created two new planetary laws
1610: Galileo Galilei published his finding after looking into outer space that contradicted theories by Aristotle
1620: Bacon publishes a book that enourages using the scientific method
December 16, 1773: Boston Tea Party. To protest an import tax on tea, colonists dumped tea into the Boston harbor.
July 4, 1776: Second Continental Congress issues the Declaration of Independence which is written by Thomas Jefferson
1783: US War of Independence ended
1789: National Assembly assembled and therefore ending absolute monarchy
June 20, 1789: Tennis Court Oath taken, and the National Assembly draws up a new constitution
1789: Seizing of Bastille
August 26, 1789: National Assembly introduces Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
November 17, 1799: Napoleon Bonaparte abolishes Directory and becomes the leader of France
1804: Napoleon establishes the Napoleonic Code
June 22, 1815: Napoleon abdicates the throne for the last time
Periods
1793-1794 Reign of Terror
