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Absolutism and the French Revolution
Absolutism began sometime in 1643 and ended when the French Revolution began, but I just put the whole timespan for both of them together. Absolutism ended May 5, 1789, but the French Revolution ended on November 9, 1799 -
Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan
The Leviathan argues for a social contract. But, it also asks for the rule by an absolute sovereign. -
When King Louis moved the capital of France from Paris to Versailles
This event only occurred because King Louis was trying to escape the turmoil Paris was subject to. But, he then later invited all of the aristocracies to live with him, not because he liked them, but because he could control them. -
John Locke and the Social Contract
Basically, his version of the Social Contract said that the only right people give up in order to enter into civil society. And that the benefit of this is the right to punish others for violating rights. -
When King Louis XVI married Antoinette
The only reason they were to marry is in hope that their marriage would strengthen its alliance with Austria, its longtime enemy. But, he also had to marry Antoinette or a woman to become King. -
Education
Napoleon attended school in mainland France, where he learned the French language. He then later graduated from a French military academy in 1785. -
Military
Napoleon had graduated and started in the military when he was less than 10 years old. He then later moved on to the prestigious École Militaire in Paris where he trained as an artillery officer and was gifted with mathematics and command, which allowed him to excel in his training. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath was a dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French Nation, which was the Third Estate. They basically took an oath their that they would never separate or stop having these meetings until a written constitution had been established for France. -
"Bastille is Stormed"
The Bastille was raided in search of gunpowder for the townspeople's muskets. The number of deaths in the Bastille was 100 revolutionaries. -
When The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was written
This Declaration defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. But, ultimately the Declaration rejected appeals to ancient charters of liberties, based on the principle that the rights of man were natural, universal and inalienable. -
Women's March on Versailles
The leading up to the Women's March was the outrageous rise in the price of bread since there was a lack of flour. They then began to march through Paris demanding a fair price for bread. -
King Louis XVI is executed
He was executed because he was convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention. He was executed just like everybody else, by guillotine. -
The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a period of violence during the French revolution causing conflicts between the Girondins and the Jacobins. The total amounts of deaths in The Reign of Terror were about 40,000 people by a guillotine. -
Marriage and Children
His wife's name was Josephine De Beauharnais, who was a widow six years his senior who had two teenage children. But, a decade later he had to divorce her because he had no offspring with her and had to marry again. -
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Napoleon as Emperor
I found the year he became emperor, but I couldn't find when his reign ended so I put his death date or his supposed death date. -
Defeat in Russian Campaign
This event occurred when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian Army. Napoleon did this in order to compel the Emperor of All Russia, Alexander I, to cease trading with British merchants through proxies in an effort to pressure the United Kingdom to sue for peace. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was between a French army under the control of Napoleon who was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, the Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. But, the cause of the battle was because of Napoleon's atrocities in Europe. -
When Napoleon gets exiled
He was exiled to Saint Helena off the coast of Africa, since his defeat in Waterloo. Then, six years later he died, and in 1840 his body was returned to Paris, where it was then interred in the Hotel des Invalides.
