french revolution

  • Formation of the National Assembly

    was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (the common people) of the Estates-General; thereafter
  • 1st used of guaten

    It was originally developed as a more humane method of execution. The origins of the French guillotine date back to late-1789, when Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposed that the French government adopt a gentler method of execution.
  • tennis court oath

  • Formation of the National Assembly

    it was the name of the revolutionary assembly
  • 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 Louis XVI executed

    On this day in History, King Louis XVI executed on Jan 21, 1793 by gilaten
  • Republican calendar began

  • Robespierre killed

    Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution.
  • Establishment of the Directory

    Directory, French Directoire, the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799. It included a bicameral legislature known as the Corps Législatif
  • napolenic code started

    The Napoleonic Code (French: Code Napoléon, and officially Code civil des Français) is the French civil code established under Napoléon I in 1804. It was drafted by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered into force on 21 March 1804.
  • Napoleon Exiled

  • Napoleon becomes Emperor (the first time)

  • Continental System

    Continental System, in the Napoleonic wars, the blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce. 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’s Death