Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion

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Chronology

1517 Luther nails his Ninety-Five Theses to the castle church door

in Wittenberg, Germany

1517–1648 The Reformation

1533–1592 Michel de Montaigne

1548–1600 Giordano Bruno; accused of heresy and burnt by Inquisition

1548–1607 Francisco Suárez

1561–1626 Francis Bacon

1571 Battle of Lepanto

1575–1624 Jakob Böhme

1588–1679 Thomas Hobbes

1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada

1592–1655 Pierre Gassendi

1596–1650 René Descartes

1599–1658 Oliver Cromwell

1609–1683 Benjamin Whichcote

1614–1687 Henry More

1617–1688 Ralph Cudworth

1618 The Thirty Years War begins

1623–1662 Blaise Pascal

1625 Grotius publishes The Laws of War and Peace

1632–1677 Spinoza; publishes Ethics 1677

1632–1704 John Locke

1638–1715 Nicolas Malebranche

1641 Descartes publishes Meditations; Beginning of English Civil War

1644 Descartes publishes Principles of Philosophy

1646–1716 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

1651 Hobbes publishes Leviathan

1668–1744 Giovanni Battista Vico

1671–1713 Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper)

1677 Spinoza publishes Ethics

1685–1753 George Berkeley

1690 Locke publishes An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

1694–1778 Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

1703–1758 Jonathan Edwards

1710–1796 Thomas Reid

1711–1776 David Hume

1712–1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1713–1784 Denis Diderot

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