Chapter 2 Timeline

1452	Leonardo Da Vinci is born
1455	Gutenberg prints the first book
1475	Michelangelo is born
1509	Erasmus publishes educational treatise Praise of Folly
1516	Castiglione publishes educational treatise The Book of the Courtier
1534	Martin Luther publishes German translation of the Bible
1543	Copernicus publishes Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
1605	Shakespeare writes Macbeth and King Lear
1616	Shakespeare and Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, die
1627	Kepler's Rudolfine Tables and Bacon's New Atlantis are published
1687	Newton writes Principia Mathematica
1689	The Bill of Rights and The Act of Toleration are declared in England
1690	John Locke writes An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Pre- Revolutionary Period
1607	Jamestown is established by English settlers
1636	Harvard College is founded
1647	Massachusetts law requires that every town of 50 families must hire a teacher to teach reading and writing
1690	The New England Primer, a widely used colonial textbook, is published
1693	College of William and Mary is founded in Virginia
1701	Yale University is founded in Connecticut
1734-35	Freedom of press in American colonies is established
1746	Princeton University is founded in New Jersey
Early National Period in United States
1776	Continental Congress adopts Declaration of Independence
1779	Jefferson unsuccessfully proposes his Virginia Plan for public schools
1783	Noah Webster's American Spelling Book is published
1789	Power- driven textile machinery arrives in the United States
1789	Constitution is ratified by 11 of 13 states
1789-97	George Washington serves as first president for public schools
1791	U.S. Bill of Rights is ratified
1793	Eli Whitney invents cotton gin
1797-1801	John Adams serves as second president
Early 1800s
1800	First of a series of southern state laws barring blacks from access to education is passed in South Carolina.
1826	On July 4, 50 years after the Declaration, Jefferson and John Adams die