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Formation of the national assembly
was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General -
Tennis Court Oath
members of the French Estates-General for 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 -
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,it's 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 other discontented Parisians, including some men, and marched toward Versailles. -
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. -
Republican calendar
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 the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror, a stage of the French Revolution. -
Robespierre killed
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 -
Establishment of the directory
French Directorie, the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, -
Napoleonic Code started
A fresh start was made after Napoleon came to power in 1799 It was promulgated as the "Civil Code of the French" but was renamed "the Napoleonic Code" from 1807 to 1815, and once again after the Second French Empire. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor (the first time)
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Continental System
was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Napoleon Exiled
he was forced to renounce his throne in April 1814. The European powers exiled him to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean. -
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
During his reign of more than a decade, Napoleon at times controlled most of Europe, was defeated and exiled, escaped, reclaimed his title, met his final military defeat at Waterloo, and was exiled again to the Atlantic Ocean island of St. Helena. -
Publication of Hobbes work-Socail contract
English philosopher, scientist, and historian, best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his masterpiece Leviathan (1651). -
1st use of the Guillotine
used long after the revolution and remained France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment in 1981.