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Publication of Hobbes work- Social Contract
Thomas Hobbes is known famous for his social contract theory. Hobbes's moral philosophy can be traced to differing understandings of the status and operation of Hobbes's “laws of nature”. -
Formation of the National Assembly
The National Assembly was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the third estate. The National Assembly created the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen". -
Tennis Court Oath
Third Estate decided to break from the Estates General and draw up their own constitution. The Tennis Court Oath was a flash point of the French Revolution, when members of the Third Estate defied the king and demanded a national constitution. -
Bastille is stormed
Bastille was a state prison on the east side of Paris. On the date of July 14,1789 the Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops had stormed the Bastille leading to the dismantling of it. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Declaration of The Rights of Man was passed by France's National Constituent Assembly.The Declaration was a fundamental document of the French Revolution. -
Women’s March
A crowd of women demanded bread for their families. The march was to Versailles along with some men. After that the King never saw Versailles again. -
1st use of the Guillotine
The convicted felon Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be executed by the guillotine. The National Assembly made decapitation the only legal form of capital punishment in France. -
Republican calendar began
The French Republican calendar also known as the French Revolutionary calendar was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution. The calendar was used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805. -
Execution of King Louis XVI
Montagnards were eager to execute the King to prevent the return of the monarchy. The King was placed on trial and condemned. He was sent to the guillotine on January 21, 1793 -
Establishment of Committee of Public Safety
The Committee of Public Safety was a powerful symbol of the French Revolution. It seems clear the Committee both endorsed and contributed to the use of state terror. -
Robespierre killed
Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, was overthrown and arrested. Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution. -
Establishment of the Directory
The Convention drew up a new constitution, setting up the Directory. The Directory lasted from November 1795 to 1799. It included a bicameral legislature known as the Corps Législatif. -
Napoleonic Code started
The Napoleonic Code was approved in France on March 21, 1804. The Napoleonic Code was originally called the "Civil Code of the French" but was renamed from 1807 to 1815. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor (the first time)
Napoleon was the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. In 1802, he established the Napoleonic Code, a new system of French law, and in 1804 he established the French empire. -
Continental System
The Continental System was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain. The decrees of Berlin (November 21, 1806) and Milan (December 17, 1807) proclaimed a blockade: neutrals and French allies were not to trade with the British. -
Napoleon Exiled
Napoleon Bonaparte spent 10 weeks on board the HMS Northumberland as it sailed him to St. Helena because he was exiled for a second time.Six years after Napoleon was exiled he died. -
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. At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon met his final defeat. -
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. He died in St. Helena at the age of 51.
