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Absolutism and the French Revolution
Was a political system associated with kings such as Louis XIII and, more particularly, Louis XIV. -
John Locke and the social Contract
Theory is striking in saying that the only right people give up in order to enter into civil society and its benefits is the right to punish other people for violating rights. No other rights are given up, only the right to be a vigilante. -
Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes -
when king Louis moved the capital of France from Paris to Versailles
Louis moved in, and changed the capital from Paris to Versailles to escape the turmoil Paris was subject to. -
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Napoleon as emperor
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When Napoleon was born
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader. He was Emperor of the French as Napoleon I from 1804 until 1814 and again briefly in 1815 during the Hundred Days. -
When King Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette
They got married they lasted till January 21 1793 when he was executed. -
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When Napoleon became general
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Tennis Court Oath
The third Estate vowed to write a new constitution for France. They did this because they got locked out. -
Bastille is Stormed
Bastille was stormed because the peasants wanted gunpowder for their muskets. This event was the "Spark" that caused the Revolution to begin. -
When The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was written
The French National Constituent Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. -
Women's March on Versailles
A large group of women in a Paris marketplace began to revolt. The march gave the revolutionaries confidence in the power of the people over the king. -
King Louis XVI is executed
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention. Executed by guillotine. -
Reign of Terror
a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed, in particular Reign of Terror the period of the Terror during the French Revolution. -
Defeat in Russian Campaign
His army was made up of soldiers from the several nations now under his control. The desperate Russians, however, adopted a "scorched-earth" policy: whenever they retreated, they burned the places they left behind. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time. -
When he was exiled
Exiled to the island of Elba, he escaped to France in early 1815 and raised a new Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success before its crushing defeat at Waterloo against an allied force under Wellington -
Napoleon became emperor
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, from the symbolic and historic date of 2 December 1852. His reign continued until 4 September 1870, after he was captured at the Battle of Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War.
