History of political thought/Timelines
495 BCE Pericles (495-429) - Athenian statesman and advcate of democracy
469 Socrates (469-384) - Athenian philosopher who is credited with laying the foundations of western philosophy; sentenced to death in Athens for heresy.
450 The Twelve Tables[1] - the first recorded statement of Roman Law
431 The Pelopponesian War[2] (431-404) between Athens and Sparta
428 Plato (428-347) Athenian philosopher, recorder of Socratic dialogue and critic of democracy
427 The Mytilene Debate[3] - that led to the Athenian decision to execute all the men on the rebellious island of Mytilene
384 Aristotle (384-322) pupil of Plato, author of The Politics
341 Epicurus (341-271) founder of Hedonism[4]
331 Zeno of Citium (331-261) founder of Stoicism
106 Cicero (106-43) statesman of the Roman republic, Stoic and opponent of dictatorship
204 Plotinus[5] (204-270) - founder of Neoplatonism[6] and originator of the Great Chain of Being[7]
313 Edict of Milan[8] - established religious freedom in the Roman Empire.
325 First Council of Nicea[9] - the first ecumenical council
354 CE Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Neoplatonist African Bishop and leading philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
381 Council of Constantinople - that approved the Nicene Creed[10] - the official statement of Christian belief
410 Sack of Rome[11] the first invasion of imperial Rome - which neverthess survived for more than a century
533 Corpus Jurus Civilis[12]: a compendium of Roman Law promulgated by the emperor Justinian[13]
570 Muhammad (570-632) Arab prophet and founder of Islam
1126 Averroës (Abu'l-Walid Ibn Rushd)[14] (1126-1198) interpretor of Aristotle, leading Islamic philospher
1215 Magna Carta[15][16] - statement of civil rights and fundamental document of the English constitution.
1469 Machiavelli (1469-1527) Pragmatic Florentine political advisor, famous for his amoral approach to the exercise of authority.
1588 Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
1632 John Locke (1632-1704)
1643 English Civil War [17] (1643-6).
1688 Glorious Revolution
1711 David Hume (1711-1776)
1712 Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
1724 Immanuel Kant[19] (1724-1804)
1729 Edmund Burke[20] (1720-1797)
1737 Thomas Paine[21] (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]]