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The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.
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Two Treatises of Government a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke
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A political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America.
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A statement adopted by the Continental Congress, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire
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was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a major impact on France and indeed all of Europe.
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Third estate delegates found themselves locked outside of their meeting room so they had a meeting in the tennis court pledging to stay until they drew up a new constitution
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A mob searching for gun powder and arms stormed the Bastille, a Paris prison.
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created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror (1793–1794), a stage of the French Revolution.
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Louis was beheaded by guillotine on the Place de la Révolution. The executioner, Charles Henri Sanson, testified that the former King had bravely met his fate.
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members of the National Convention turned on Robespierre fearing their own safety
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lost political situation and the confidence of the French people
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constitutionally chosen, leader of the free republic.
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Did not comply with the Continental System, so in 1807 Napoleon invaded with the support of Spain
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The Congress of Erfurt sought to preserve the Russo-French alliance, and the leaders had a friendly personal relationship after their first meeting at Tilsit in 1807
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In the Treaty of Fontainebleau, the victors exiled him to Elba, an island of 12,000 inhabitants in the Mediterranean, 20 km off the Tuscan coast.
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was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815.[1] The objective of the Congress was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
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shippped to St Helena, a remote island in the South Atlantic
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attacked the British army, defended his ground all day but then the Prussian army arrived and NApolean lost the war.
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Stomach ailment, perhaps cancer in St Helena
