Philosophy Chronology

Timeline of Events 1400 - 1699

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There are four different types of color-coded dates in these timelines of philosophy:

• European Philosophy
• American Philosophy
• Asian and Islamic Philosophy
• Miscellaneous Events in Philosophy

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Renaissance Philosophy: 1400 - 1699
May 03, 1469	Italian political philosopher Niccolo dei Machiavelli was born.
October 27, 1469	Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam was born.
June 21, 1527	Italian political philosopher Niccolo dei Machiavelli died.
July 12, 1536	Desiderius Erasmus died.
January 05, 1548	Spanish philosopher Francisco Suarez was born at Granada.
January 22, 1561	Francis Bacon was born in England.
April 10, 1583	European jurist and political philosopher Hugo Grotius was born.
April 05, 1588	English philosopher Thomas Hobbes was born (prematurely, supposedly because his mother was frightened by news of the approach of the Spanish Armada).
March 31, 1596	French philosopher Rene Descartes was born at La Haye in Touraine, France.
September 25, 1617	Spanish philosopher Francisco Suarez died in Lisbon, Portugal.
May 31, 1621	Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for one night.
June 19, 1623	Blaise Pascal was born.
April 08, 1626	Francis Bacon died.
January 08, 1632	Samuel von Pufendorf was born in Dorfchemnitz, Saxony.
August 29, 1632	John Locke was born. Locke was a British philosopher who is largely responsible for modern conceptions of empiricism.
November 24, 1632	Benedict de Spinoza was born.
July 01, 1646	German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz was born in Leipzig.
February 11, 1650	French philosopher Rene Descartes died in Stockholm, Sweden.
January 23, 1656	Blaise Pascal published the first of his 18 "Provincial Lettres," most of which attacked the Jesuits.
August 19, 1662	Blaise Pascal died. Pascal was a French mathematician and and theologian who became well known for his work on hydrodynamics and probability.
February 21, 1677	Baruch Spinoza died.
January 24, 1679	German Englightenment philosopher Christian Wolff was born in Breslau, Silesia (now Wroclaw, Poland).
December 04, 1679	English philosopher Thomas Hobbes died.
March 12, 1685	Philosopher George Berkeley was born.
January 18, 1689	Charles de Montesquieu was born in Château de la Brède (near Bourdeaux, France).
October 13, 1694	Samuel von Pufendorf died in Berlin, Germany.
November 21, 1694	Voltaire was born.

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