Revolutions of the Enlightenment

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    Enlightenment thinkers

    The Enlightenment thinkers were Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Baron de Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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    Enlightenment thinkers

    The Enlightenment thinkers were Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Baron de Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Mary Wollstonecraft

  • Estates-General Meets

    It was the first meeting since 1614. King Louis XVI had to find a solution to the governments problems.
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    French Revolution

    The French Revolution was an uprising that changed everything between the rulers and the ones they governed.

  • Tennis Court Oath Taken

    The Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath. This oath resulted for a new constitution on the king.

  • Storming of the Bastille

    The Bastille was a prison that people of France stormed, the Declaration of Rights of Man was a document of the French Revolution.

  • Publication of the Declaration of Rights of Man of the Citizen

    This is document of human civil rights from the French Revolution.
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    Haitian Revolution

    The Haitian Revolution is a series of events where enslaved africans

  • Slaves rise up on northern plantations of St. Domingue

    This is called the Haitian Revolution.

  • King Louis XVI executed by guillotine

    An event in the french revolution where King Louis XVI was executed by the guillotine, this was because we refused to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary Government.

  • The Directory takes control of France

    The Directory was a 5 member committee, but was overthrown by the Napoleon Bonaparte.

  • War of Knives begins for control of St. Domingue

    This was a conflict around the beginning of the Haitian Revolution. This resulted with Toussaint having power of Saint-Domingue.

  • New Constitution in France put up for a vote, declares Revolution over

  • Toussaint L'Ouverture proclaims a new Constitution in St. Domingue and is declared Governor for life

  • Dessalines proclaims Haiti's independence

    Dessalines proclaims the independence of St. Domingue.
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    Revolutions of Latin and South America

  • Mexico declares independence from Spain

    Mexicans wanted to leave Spain and make a Sovereign Government where they would act on their own behalf.

  • Simon Bolivar arrives at Merida, Venezuela

    Bolivar is a South American independence leader, who went to Merida to lead the invasion of Venezuela.

  • Peru declares independence

    They proclaimed independence from Spain.

  • Gran Columbia formed

    In South America, Bolivar led the Gran Columbia.