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1588 CE - 1679 CE: Life of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
1588 CE: Thomas Hobbes is born in Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England.
1602 CE - 1608 CE: Thomas Hobbes studies at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford.
1608 CE: Thomas Hobbes begins to work as a secretary for the statesman William Cavendish.
1646 CE - 1649 CE: Thomas Hobbes tutors the future Charles II of England.
1650 CE: Thomas Hobbes publishes his Elements of Law.
1650 CE: Thomas Hobbes publishes his Human Nature.
1651 CE: Thomas Hobbes publishes his Leviathan.
1679 CE: Thomas Hobbes dies near Hardwicke in Derbyshire, England.