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Formation of the National Assembly
was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate -
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, vowing -
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
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. -
King removed from Versailles
Begun in Versailles in May, act 1 of the French Revolution ended in October with the departure of the king. The legend of Versailles was over after a century of royal residence. Paris became the capital of the kingdom once again. A page in the History of France had been turned. -
1st use of the Guillotine
convicted felon Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be executed by the guillotine. -
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 began
was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution -
Robespierre killed
Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. -
Establishment of Committee of Public Safety
The 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. -
Establishment of the Directory
French Directoire, 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" -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
On May 18, 1804, Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress -
Napoleon Exiled
On this day in 1814, 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 was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars -
Publication of Hobbes work- Social Contract
In moral and political philosophy, the social contract or political contract is a theory or model, originating during the Age of Enlightenment, that typically addresses the questions of the origin of society and the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. -
Continental System
was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars