the french revolution

By 28speltzl

  • john locke is born!

  • isaac newton is born

  • montesquieu is born

  • voltaire is born

  • john locke dies..

  • denis diderot is born

  • Baron d'Holbach is born

  • adam smith is born

  • immanuel kant is born

  • isaac newton dies

  • thomas paine is born

  • toussaint is born

  • voltaire dies

  • montesquieu dies

  • robespierre is born

  • mary wollstonecraft is born

  • napoleon is born

  • denis diderot dies

  • immanuel kant dies

  • the start of the first stage

    Louis XVI summons the Estates General for the first time in almost 100 years

  • Baron d'Holbach dies

  • estates general meeting called

    first time in almost 100 years

  • third estate declares itself the national convention

  • storming of the bastille

  • declaration of the rights of man and citizen

  • adam smith dies

  • Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Women

  • french constitution of 1791

    louis' rights are limited

  • legislative assembly forms

  • national convention replaces monarchy w republic

  • start of the second stage

  • Period: to

    reign of terror

  • louis xvi excecuted

  • committee of public safety

  • levee en masse

  • robespierre arrested and executed

  • constitution of 1795

    establishes the directory

  • mary wollstonecraft dies

  • coup d'etat by napoleon-creates consulate

  • toussaint dies in jail

  • haiti becomes 1st free black republic

  • napoleon declares himself emperor

  • thomas paine dies

  • french invasion of russia

  • restoration of bourbon monarchy

    with Louis xviii

  • battle of waterloo

  • congress of vienna redraws european borders

  • napoleon dies

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