Year	Event
1743	Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier was born on August 26, 1743 in Paris France
1763	Graduated from Law School
1765	Published paper on how to improve street lights in Paris
1767	Accompanied Jean Elienne Guettard on a tour for preparing geological map of France.
1768	Elected to Royal Academy of� Science
1770	Disproved the transmutability theory by experimentally showing that water is not transmuted into earth
1778	Freed thinking from phlogiston theory:� i) showed that the products of combustion weighed more than combustible materials� ii) combustion is a process of addition rather than subtraction iii) discovered oxygen (recognized it as a substance)�������������
1783	Demonstrated that water is not an element but composed of two gases, oxygen and hydrogen
1787	Published Methods of Chemical Nomenclature - system of chemical nomenclature
1789	Published Elementary Treatise of Chemistry - first modern chemistry textbook
1794	Lavoisier was beheaded for his involvement with Tax Farm