History of political thought/Timelines

495 BCE Pericles (495-429)

469 Socrates (469-384)

450 The Twelve Tables of Roman Law[1]

431 The Pelopponesian War[2] (431-404) between Athens and Sparta

428 Plato (428-347)

427 The Mytilene Debate[3]

384 Aristotle (384-322)

341 Epicurus (341-271) founder of Hedonism

331 Zeno of Citium (331-261) founder of Stoicism

106 Cicero (106-43)

204 Plotinus[4] (204-270)

313 Edict of Milan[5] established religious freedom in the Roman Empire.

325 First Council of Nicea

354 CE Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

410 Sack of Rome[6]

533 Corpus Jurus Civilis[7]: a compendium of Roman Law promulgated by the emperor Justinian

570 Muhammad (570-632) Arab prophet and founder of Islam

1126 Averroës (1126-1198)

1215 Magna Carta[8][9]

1469 Machiavelli (1469-1527)

1588 Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

1632 John Locke (1632-1704)

1643 English Civil War [10] (1643-6).

1648 Treaty of Westphalia[11]

1688 Glorious Revolution

1711 David Hume (1711-1776)

1712 Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

1724 Immanuel Kant[12] (1724-1804)

1729 Edmund Burke[13] (1720-1797)

1737 Thomas Paine[14] (1737-1809)

1748 Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) founder of Utilitarianism.

1751 James Madison (1751-1836)

1774 American Revolution

1776 Declaration of Independence by the United States of America

1789 Storming of the Bastille and start of the French Revolution

1806 John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

1818 Karl Marx (1818-1883]]