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Publication of Hobbes work- Social Contract
Helped serve to serve as a basis for the realism therorys. -
king removed from versailles
At 1.25 am, the royal cortege left Versailles. In the way, the crowd sang that it was bringing back “the baker, the baker’s wife and the little baker’s apprentice”! As he left, Louis XVI asked Le Tour du Pin, his War Minister, to “preserve his poor Versailles”, convinced that he would be back. -
Formation of the National Assembly
existed from June 13, 1789 to July 9, 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (the common people) of the Estates-General; -
Tennis Court Oath
On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath, -
Bastille is stormed
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. 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
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 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 -
1st use of the Guillotine
convicted felon Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be executed by the guillotine. ... In 1791 the National Assembly made decapitation the only legal form of capital punishment in France, -
Execution of King Louis XVI
Died by guillotine at the "revolution square". -
Republican calendar began
also commonly called the French Revolutionary Calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years -
Establishment of Committee of Public Safety
Formed executive gov. during reign of terror -
Robespierre killed
Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution. -
Establishment of the Directory
French Directoire, the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III -
Napoleon becomes Emperor (the first time)
In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. -
Continental System
Continental Blockade (known in French as Blocus continental) was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Napoleonic Code started
It was promulgated as the "Civil Code of the French" (Code civil des Français), but was renamed "the Napoleonic Code" -
Napoleon Exiled
Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. -
Napoleon’s Death
Napoleon Bonaparte, the former French ruler who once ruled an empire that stretched across Europe, dies as a British prisoner on the remote island of Saint Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
