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Publication of the Leviathan
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Publication of the Leviathan
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Formation of the National Assembly
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly represented the revolutionaries of the Third Estate and petitioned the King of France for many rights. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. -
Womens march
a crowd of women demanding bread for their families gathered other discontented Parisians, including some men, and marched toward Versailles. -
1st use of the Guillotine
The first execution by guillotine was performed on highwayman Nicolas Jacques Impeller... -
Execution of King Louis XVI
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Establishment of Committee of Public Safety
Formed executive government in France during the Reign of Terror -
Robespierre killed
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Establishment of the Directory
It was the entity that took over the French government in the wake of the Reign of Terror and was the final phase of the French Revolution proper. Its inherent weakness and corruption eventually led to its collapse, and to the ultimate establishment of the Consulate under Napoleon. -
Republican calendar began
The revolutionary system was designed in part to remove all religious and royalist influences from the calendar, and was part of a larger attempt at decimalization
in France.
