PoliSci 31A

Intro to Political Theory Key Dates

1609

Galileo vastly improves the telescope

1610

Galileo discovers Jupiter’s moons & phases of Venus

1628

William Harvey discovers blood circulation and its role in the body

1632

Galileo published Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems; supporting heliocentric view which went against the church’s geocentric view leading to his house arrest

1649

King Charles | is executed

1649-1659

England’s “Commonwealth” Period

1651

Hobbes publishes Leviathan

1660

Restoration of Stuart Monarchy where Charles || is crowned

1669

Locke publishes Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina

1679-1681

“The Exclusion Controversy”

1688-1689

“Glorious Revolution”

1690

Locke publishes Two Treatises of Government in which he defines limits of royal authority and grounds for deposing a king

1761

Rousseau wrote Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, the bestselling novel of the 18th century

1762

Rousseau publishes On the Social Contract

1776

The American Revolution

1789

The French Revolution