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Publication of Hobbes work- Social Contract
The social contract was an occurrence during which individuals came together and ceded some of their individual rights so that others would cede theirs. This resulted in the establishment of the state which would create laws to regulate social interactions. -
Formation of the National Assembly
a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate, or the common people -
Tennis Court Oath
the members of the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established. -
Bastille is stormed
The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. -
Women’s March
a crowd of women demanding bread for their families gathered -
Republican calendar began
a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government -
Establishment of Committee of Public Safety
executive government in France during the Reign of Terror, a stage of the French Revolution -
Execution of King Louis XVI
convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, -
Robespierre killed
a French lawyer and politician. He was one of the best-known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. -
Establishment of the Directory
the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799. -
Napoleonic Code started
Napoleonic Code was a civil legal system in France -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. -
Continental System
he foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Waterloo
Napoleon's forces marched into Belgium, where separate armies of British and Prussian troops were camped. Napoleon defeated the Prussians under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher. -
Napoleon Exiled
the former French ruler who once ruled an empire that stretched across Europe, dies as a British prisoner. -
Napoleon’s Death
On May 5th, 1821, Napoleon died from stomach cancer, according to his Physician. -
1st use of the Guillotine
France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment