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May 20, 1500
The scientific Revolution
A few scholars published works tht challenged the ideas of the ancient thinkers and the church. They replaced old assumptions with new theories and launched a change in the European thought. -
New Artistic Styles
The Enlightenment ideals of order and reason were reflected in the arts of music, literature, painting and architecture. The artists began to work in a simple and elegant style that borrowed ideas and themes from classical Greece and Rome. -
John Locke
He developed a theory that he believed everyone was born free and equal with the three natural rights of life liberty and property. -
Estates
People in France were divided into three large social classes, The first two, Privileged states were Clergy and and Wealthy. the third estate was workers and peasants. -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
He believed that the only good government was the one freely formed by the peoeple nad guided by the general will of society, he explained his political philosophy in the book called The Social Contract. -
Napoleon Bonaparte was born
In 1785 he was 16 and finished school to become a lieutenant in the artillery. -
Declaration of Independence
Written by Thomas Jefferson and reflected the ideas of natural rights and the Enlightenment. -
The Bill of Rights
These amendments protected such basic rights as freedom of speech, press, assembly and religion. -
Storming of the Bastille
A large mob marched to the Bastille, searching for gun powder and prisoners that had been taken by the unpopular and detested King, Louis XVI. -
Execution of the Louis XVI
He was executed by guillotine at the Revolution Square in Paris. -
Committee of Public Safety
Formed the executive government of France during the Reign of Terror. -
Execution of Robespierre
Robespierre was guillotined without trial in the Place de la Révolution. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
He proclaimed himself as emperor, and made Josephine Empress, But his coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804. -
Napoleon is exiled to St. Helena.
European powers were not going to risk chances on Napoleon's possible return so they exiled him to the island of St. Helena which was a waste land with rocks along the edges. -
Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon chose to attack in the hope of destroying his enemy before they could join in a coordinated invasion of France with other members of the Coalition.