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1793 BCE
The formation of the Committee of Public Safety
Formed the provisional government in France during the Reign of Terror, a phase of the French Revolution. -
1793 BCE
The massacre in Lyon
French Republican forces laid siege and captured the city of Lyon, which was the centre of a revolt against the French government during the War of the First Coalition. -
1791 BCE
The first Constitution of France
The short-lived French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. -
1789 BCE
Tennis Court Oath
On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established -
1789 BCE
Women’s March on Versailles
The Women's 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. -
1789 BCE
Storming of the Bastille
his violent attack on the government by the people of France signaled the start of the French Revolution. -
1775 BCE
Louis XVI is crowned
Louis XVI was the monarch of France during the French Revolution till the monarchy was abolished and France was declared a Republic. -
1762 BCE
The publication of the Social Contract by Rousseau
The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish. -
1651 BCE
The publication of the Leviathan by Hobbes
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1631 BCE
Building of the Palace at Versailles
t was a small country residence and, according to the Maréchal de Bassompierre, “a mere gentleman would not have been overly proud of the construction.
