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John Locke and the social Contract
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
Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan.
written partly as a response to the fear Hobbes experienced during the political turmoil of the English Civil Wars. -
king louis moved the capital
Versailles before the reign of Louis was mostly used as a royal hunting lodge; but Louis had other plans for it. He planned on moving the capital. -
Napoleon was born
full name-Napoléon Bonaparte
birth place-Ajaccio, France -
king louis married Marie
Louis, the French dauphin, marries Marie Antoinette, the daughter of Austrian Archduchess Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. -
Napoleon graduated french military academy
Napoleon attended school in mainland France, where he learned the French language, and went on to graduate from a French military academy in 1785. He then became a second lieutenant in an artillery regiment of the French army. -
Tennis Court Oath
The people in the tennis court oath vowed "not to separate and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established". -
Bastille is Stormed
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France. The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. -
When the deceleration of rights of man and of the citizen was written
Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen
defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. -
Womens March on Versailles
also known as the October March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. -
King Louis is executed
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. -
The Reign of Terror
was a period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins. -
Napoleon made first council for life
Napoleon proclaimed himself First Consul for Life after the plot failed -
Defeat in Russian Campaign
The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812
The desperate Russians burned the places they left behind causing them to win -
Napoleon was exiled
He was Exiled to the island of Elba, he escaped to France in early 1815 -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in Belgium