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Historical Events
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John Locke's "Two Treatises on Government"
John Locke's "Two Treatises on Government" advocates for natural rights and limited government power. -
Montesquieu's "The Spirit of the Laws"
Montesquieu's "The Spirit of the Laws" promotes the separation of powers in government. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Social Contract"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Social Contract" explores the idea of a society based on collective will. -
Voltaire's writings
Voltaire's writings - advocating for religious tolerance and freedom of speech -
Napoleon Born
This is the day that Napoleon was born -
American Revolution
American Revolution - heavily influenced by Enlightenment ideas, leading to the establishment of a republic based on individual rights -
Peace signed between Britain and France
The Britans signed at a different time but this is when it officially was signed by both. -
Meeting of the Estates General
This was the start of the french revolution and when they created the three estates. -
Tennis Court Oath
The tennis court oath is that the National Assembly swore not to stop meeting until France had a constitution -
Storming of the Bastile
hundreds of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a state prison, seizing 250 barrels of gunpowder and freeing its prisoners. -
Great Fear
Great Fear in the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate. -
Abolition of Feudalism
It abolished both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate (the nobility) and the tithes gathered by the First Estate (the Catholic clergy). -
The Declaration of the Right of Man
This explains it. This says that men should have equal rights and free rights. -
Women's March on Versailles
Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles. -
Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution that caused the immediate subordination of the Catholic Church in France to the French government. -
Flight to Varennes
The event in which King Louis XVI and the royal family attempted to escape Paris. -
Attack of the Tuileries
This is when the Tuileries got attacked and burned. -
Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a period of around a year during the French Revolution during which many people were executed. -
Marie Antoinette
She died on this day due to attacking the Tuileries and her head got sliced on the guillotine. -
Thermidorian Reaction
Thermidorian Reaction in the French Revolution, the parliamentary revolt initiated on 9 Thermidor, year II, which resulted in the fall of Maximilien Robespierre and the collapse of revolutionary fervour and the Reign of Terror in France. -
Execution of Maximilien Robespierre.
Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hotel de Ville in Paris. The next day, Robespierre and 21 of his followers were taken to the Place de la Revolution, where they were executed by guillotine before a cheering crowd. -
Napoleon married to his first wife
Napoleon married Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie. -
Napoleon becomes emperor
Napoleon crowned himself emperor. -
Napoleon exiled to St Helena
This day is when Napoleon first day on the island. -
Napoleon died
Napoleon died of stomach cancer while he was on the island -
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Holocaust/WWll
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Hitler is Chancellor
The Nazi Party assumes control of Germany. -
Limited Jews at school
They put a law against overcrowding the schools. -
Mass killing of Jews
Nazi Germany unleashed World War II by invading Poland. The war radicalized Nazi policies, leading to brutal occupations of conquered territory. German authorities in occupied Poland established ghettos for Jews. They also introduced harsh measures against non-Jewish Poles. -
Surrender of German and Hungarian Units
Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last German and Hungarian units fighting in the encircled city of Budapest, Hungary. Soviet troops will drive the last German units and their Arrow Cross collaborators out of western Hungary. -
Japan Surrenders
Japan Surrenders. WWll ended.