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Hobbes publishes Levathian
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Locke publishes two treatises on goverment
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Montequieu published the spirit of laws
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Beccaria published On crimes and punishments
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Meeting of the Estates General
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Storming of the Bastile
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declaration of rights of man and citizen
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march on versailles
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Beheading of King Louis the XIV
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Period: to
Reign of terror
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French national assembly grants free blacks full french rights in saint domingue
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The colony of "Saint-Domingue" is abolished
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Napoleon named Emporer