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An intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th centuries -
Published "Principia Mathematica" -
John Locke, one of the most influential philosophers during the Enlightenment, based his governance on social contract theory. He believed that humans are rational and should follow natural law. He believed that all men are born equally with the right to life, liberty, and property -
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, better known as Encyclopédie, was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations
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The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame and was one of the key developments in textile manufacturing's industrialization during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1764 or by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. -
Conduct and policies of European absolute monarchs -
Was signed by Founding Fathers -
The period that began with the Estates-General of 1789 and ended in November 1799 with the formation of the French Consulate -
The Estates-General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second Estate), and the commoners (Third Estate). -
The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison is known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris.
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In October, a large crowd of protesters, mostly women, marched from Paris to the Palace of Versailles, convinced that the royal family and nobility there lived in luxury, oblivious to the hardships of the French people. They broke into the quarters of Queen Marie Antoinette who as an Austrian was particularly despised. The crowd demanded bread and wanted to bring the King and his family back to Paris to “live among the people”. -
August 18: The Assembly abolishes the religious teaching orders and those running hospitals, the last remaining religious orders in France -
was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. -
The Reign of Terror, commonly The Terror (French: la Terreur), was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First French Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervor, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety.
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Cotton Gin invented by Eli Whitney -
Napolean is given command of French Army -
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Napolean sell the Louisianna territory to the United States -
Napoleon begins an ill-fated invasion of Russia. -
The Congress of Vienna (French: Congrès de Vienne, German: Wiener Kongress) of 1814–1815 was one of the most important international diplomatic conferences in European history, reconstituting the European political order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon
