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publication of hobbes work
English philosopher, scientist, and historian, best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his masterpiece Leviathan (1651) -
formation of national assembly
The National assembly which existed from June 13, 1789 to July 9, 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (the common people). -
declaration of the rights of man
a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. -
womens march
On this day in 1789, an angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women – armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets – marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intensifying French Revolution. -
1st use of guillotine
The guillotine continued to be used long after the revolution and remained France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment in 1981. -
republication calendar began
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execution of king louis XVI
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. -
establishment of committee of public safety
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, a stage of the French Revolution. -
robespierre killed
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,