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mobs/barricades
The very first barricades in the streets of Paris, a feature of the French Revolution and urban rebellions ever since, went up on the Day of the Barricades, 12 May 1588, when an organized rebellion of Parisians forced Henri III from Paris, leaving it in the hands of the Catholic League. -
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Absolutism and the French Revoution
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Monarchy
Monarchies are associated with political or sociocultural hereditary rule, in which monarchs rule for life (although some monarchs do not hold lifetime positions, such as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, who serves a five-year term) and pass the responsibilities and power of the position to their children or family when they die. -
Monarchs
This list of English monarchs begins with Æthelstan and ends with Anne, who became queen of Great Britain when England merged with Scotland to form a new country in 1707. -
Napoleon: time as emperor
August 15, 1769: ·Napoleon Bonaparte born in Ajaccio, Corsica. -
Napoleon: life/death
Napoleon Bonaparte born in Ajaccio, Corsica. -
Napoleon: time as emperor
Napoleon begins study at the royal military academy. -
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Napoleon
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Constitution
The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in eleven states. It went into effect on March 4, 1789. -
Terror
The first three Articles of the Constitution establish the rules and separate powers of the three branches of the federal government: a legislature, the bicameral Congress; an executive branch led by the President; and a federal judiciary headed by the Supreme Court. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen, along with the decrees of August 4 and 11, 1789 abolishing feudal rights, was one of the fundamental texts adopted by the Constituent Assembly formed in the wake of the meeting of the Estates General. -
Committee of Public Safety
The Committee of Public Safety was created by the National Convention in 1793. Originally consisting of nine members of the convention, it was formed as an administrative body to supervise and expedite the work of the executive bodies of the convention and of the government ministers appointed by the convention. -
Napoleon: early career
Senate proclaims Napoleon Emperor. -
Napoleon: Early career
Napoleon crowns himself Emperor in Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris. -
Napoleon: life/death
Napoleon is exiled to Saint Helena. -
mobs/barricades
Adopted as a military term, a barricade denotes any improvised field fortification, most notably on the city streets during urban warfare.
