The document outlines key events and figures in history related to philosophy and government including the execution of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell leading the Commonwealth period in England, philosopher Thomas Hobbes, the Glorious Revolution that established constitutional monarchy, the American Declaration of Independence authored by Thomas Jefferson, and the French Enlightenment and Revolution.

1. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY

5. THE
PARLIAMENT

6. Execution of Charles I
Stuart (1649)
Portrait of Olivier Cromwell
Commonwealth

7. HOBBES

8. Charles II
James II

9. 1688
GLORIOUS
REVOLUTION

12. 1776
DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE

13. • “We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
•
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

14. FRENCH
ENLIGHTMENT
AND REVOLUTION