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THE MERCURY THERMOMETER
Fahrenheit invents the mercury thermometer -
THE DIVING BELL
A diving bell is a rigid chamber used to transport divers from the surface to depth and back in open water, usually for the purpose of performing underwater work. -
DE L´ESPRIT DES LOIS
It is a work of Montesquieu, where he defend the separation of powers. According to him the executive, legislative and judicial power must be in different hands. -
L´ENCICLOPÉDIE
The first edition of the Encyclopedia published by Diderot and D'Alembert in Paris , they want to systematize the enormous knowledge circulating in the eighteenth-century in Europe, following an alphabetic order. -
THE LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR
Benjamin discover the lightning conductor, when he was defending that the storms are an electric phenomenon. -
THE BUILDS OF A POWERFUL TELESCOPE
Herschel builds powerful telescopes and discovers Uranus
The mirror of the telescope has 1.22m and the tube 12m, this was a huge telescope in that age. -
DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF THE CITIZEN
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen , set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution.
The French declaration was heavily influenced by the political philosophy of the Enlightenment and principles of human rights as was the U.S. Declaration of Independence which preceded it. -
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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly , which existed from 13 June 1789 to 9 July 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General.
They met in an indoor tennis court and took the Tennis Court Oath to stay together until France had a constitution. -
STORMING OF THE BASTILLE
The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. The prison contained just seven inmates at the time of its storming, but was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy's abuses of power; its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution. -
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CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
The Constituent Assembly was formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789 during the first stages of the French Revolution.
The 4th of august the constituent assembly eliminate the feudals privileges and later they create a constitution. -
CONSTITUTION
The French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. One of the basic precepts of the revolution was adopting constitutionality and establishing popular sovereignty. -
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LEGISLATIVE ASEMBLY
After the elections, the nobility and clergy didn´t want to lost it privileges so they was against the new constitution and the other country also reject the ideas of France so Austria and Prussia declared the war to France.
The king Louis XVI was beheaded. -
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GIRONDIN CONVENTION
In 1792 there were new elections. Because of this the rebublic started.
The strong group were the girondins, they were a moderate group that initially controlated the assembly and the jacobins or the montagnards.
They also had wars with Austria and Prussia. -
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MONTAGNARD CONVENTION
There was a putsch of the sans-culottes against the girondins.
The Montagnards aprobated a constitution. Robespierre had all the powers and introduce a dictatorship.
It was an era of terror because 50 thousands of people died.
Also, there was a crisis and Robespierre put a maximum prices for the essential products. -
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FRENCH DIRECTORY
The directory was a five-member committee which governed France from 1795 to 1799. The french directory finished when it fall in the coup of brumaire.
They make a constitution and they put the separation of power and the census suffrage. -
THE DISCOVER OF THE ROSETTA STONE
The rosetta stone was found by the french army.
This stone was useful to decipher the egypt Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Champollion was who deciphered it in 1822 -
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FRENCH CONSULATE
The Consulate was the government of France from the fall of the Directory in 1799, until the start of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804.
It was formed by three consuls, Sieyés, Ducos and Napoleon which was named life consul and in 1804 was named emperor of France -
THE FIRST ELECTRIC BATTERY
Volta invented the first electric battery -
CONCORDAT WITH THE CHURCH
In this concordat France snatched the lands of the Church, so they were property of the state. -
TREATY OF AMIENS
The treaty of Amiens was a treaty that finished the war between the UK of Great Britain and Ireland and the first republic of France and its allies like Spain. -
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FIRST FRENCH EMPIRE
The First French Empire was the empire of Napoleon and the dominant power in much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.
On 18 May 1804, Napoleon was granted the title Emperor of the French by the French Sénat and was crowned on 2 December 1804.
France's defeat in 1814, marked the end of the Empire. -
NAPOLEONIC CODE
The Napoleonic Code is the French civil code established under Napoleon I in 1804. This Napoleonic Code was a big step to eliminate the feudal privileges. -
BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
The battle of Trafalgar was a naval warfare between the British Royal Navy against the fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the war of the Third Coalation.
The Franco-Spanish fleet lost twenty-two ships and the British lost none.
The victory of Great Britain confirmed the naval supremacy that Britain had established during the course of the eighteenth century. -
BATALLA DE AUSTERLITZ
The Battle of Austerlitz, was the most important and decisive engagement of the Napoleonic Wars. In what is widely regarded as the greatest victory achieved by Napoleon, the Grande Armée of France defeated a larger Russian and Austrian army. -
BATTLE OF JENA
The battle of Jena, face the army of France under the control of Napoleon against the second prussian army. This war supossed the defeat of Prussia and his exit of the Napoleonic Wars until 1813. -
BATTLE OF BAILÉN
The Battle of Bailén was fought between the 16th and the 19th of July by the Spanish Army of Andalusia, and the Imperial French Army's II corps d'observation de la Gironde. This battle was the first ever open field defeat of the Napoleonic army. -
THE BATTLE OF LEIPZIG
The Battle of Leipzig was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813, at Leipzig, Saxony. The coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sweden ,decisively defeated the French army of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French.
Later, the coalition invaded France and they forced Napoleon to abdicate. -
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THE HUNDRED DAYS
The hundred days marked the period between Napoleon´s return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of king Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815. This period saw the War of the Seventh Coalition, and includes the Waterloo Campaign.
The defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, suposed the permanent exile of Napoleon to the distant island of Saint Helena, where he died in May 1821.
