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Napoleon Ranks
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Napoleon Ranks
Napoleon was also known as Napoleon I. He was a french military leader and emperor in the 19th century. Napoleon Ranked up fast in the French revolution -
Estates General Convenes
Necker insisted the Louis XVI to call together the estates generals. The French Congress consisted of three Estates. First estate was the Clergy, the second estate was the nobility, the third estate was the rest of French society. -
The "Tennis Court Oath"
They made an oath to not separate, and to resemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution on the Kingdom in established. -
Storming of Bastille
A state prison also known as Bastille was attacked by an angry and an aggressive mob. The prison has become a symbol monarch's dictatorial. The event became one of the defining events before the Revolution that followed. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The national assembly thought that the ignorance, neglect, and contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities, and the corruption in the government. They determined to set forth in the solemn declaration of the natural, unalienable and the sacred rights of man. In order of the legislative power, as well as those of the executive power, may be simple and incontestable principles. -
Civil Constitution of the French Clergy
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was an attempt to reform and regulate the Catholic Church. It was passed by the National Constituent Assembly. It also required Bishops and then all of the Clergy to swear on an oath to the state. -
First use of the Guillotine
The first execution by Guillotine was preformed on highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier. he was killed in front of what is now the city hall of Paris. A Guillotine was an apparatus designed for effectively beheading. -
Prussia declares war on France
The Franco-Prussian War often referred to in France as the war of 1870. It was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the German states. The North German Confederation was led by the Kingdom of Prussia. -
New Constitution proclaim
The National Assembly began the process of drafting a constitution. The Declaration of the Rights of Man eventually became the preamble of the constitution.The Declaration offered sweeping generalization abut rights, ,liberty, and sovereignty. -
Republican Calendar Adopted
The Republican Calender was adopted by Napoleon I. It was used again briefly during under the Paris Commune in 1871 -
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Rise of Napoleon
