England — Not random

Will happen on January 2, 1593

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The Bard William Shakespeare is considered to be history's most notable poet and dramatist of the English language. Shakespeare's works: comedies, tragedies, and histories, written for the small Globe theatre in London earned the acknowledgement and patronage of Queen Elizabeth I and her successor James I. Shakespeare's many contributions to poetry and the theatre have spread worldwide and continue to be read, performed, studied, analyzed, and adapted to this day.

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England — Not random

Will happen on January 2, 1651

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English philosopher Thomas Hobbes held that the state of nature was a state of strife and chaos which could be ended only if individuals agreed in a 'Social Contract' to give their liberty into the hands of a sovereign. The sovereign on his part was obliged to protect his subjects. Failure to do so would allow the people to seek a new ruler. Strangely enough Hobbes managed to offend both sides in the English Civil War and spent 11 years in Paris before he dared set foot in England again in 1651.

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England — Not random

Will happen on January 2, 1687

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Isaac Newton, outstanding physicist, mathematician and astronomer, is often considered to be the 'father of modern science'. His experiments on the decomposition of light into a spectrum of colours by a prism were fundamental to the development of modern physical optics. His three laws of motion remained the cornerstones of mechanics until the 20th century. He also is credited with having discovered infinitesimal calculus independently, though it remains unclear whether he or Leibnitz was first in doing so. His 'Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy' of 1687 was probably his most influential work, and one of the most important scientific works in history, due to introducing mathematical methods to natural science.

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England — Not random

Will happen on January 2, 1689

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John Locke was a seventeenth century political philosopher crucial to the advancement of enlightenment theory in England. Locke consistently argued in favor of the natural laws of reason which governed not only the universe as a whole, but also human nature. His influential 'Two Treaties of Government' promoted the ideals of limited government that both echoed the spirit of the Glorious Revolution and provided much of the philosophical basis for the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

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England — Not random

Will happen on January 30, 1750

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Scotsman David Hume was one of the foremost philosophers of his day who is best known for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. Taking the scientific method of the English physicist Sir Isaac Newton as his model and building on the epistemology of the English philosopher John Locke Hume tried to describe how the mind works in acquiring what is called knowledge. He concluded that no theory of reality is possible - there can be no knowledge of anything beyond experience.

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England — Not random

Will happen on January 2, 1776

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'The Wealth of Nations' was the first great work in political economy and the corner-stone of what later became known as laissez-faire capitalism (Smith called it the system of perfect liberty). The Scotsman introduced the concept of the 'invisible hand' - the intrinsic ability of a system of perfect liberty to control itself and still give rise to an orderly society through the mechanism of competition.

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