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Publiction of hobbes work- social contract
"if a government does not take care of you, you have the right to overthrow it" a theory or model, originating during the Age of Enlightenment, that typically addresses the questions of the origin of society and the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. -
Decloration of the rights of man
focused on human and civil rights, such as, abolishing slavery, women's rights, what it means to be a citizen equality. -
continental sytem
foreign policy of napoleon I of france in his struggle against great britain during the napoleonic wars. -
Execution of king louis XVI
To solve a major finacial crisis, he summoned an excceptional assebly to meet at the chateau. In the same year under pressur from the people he left versailles with marie-antioneete and was guillitined in 1793. -
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Formation of the national assembly
During the french revolution, the national assemble was a assembly formed by the represenatives of the third estate of the estates-general; thereafter. Until replaced by the legislative assebly. -
Tennis court oath
oath to not disband & to meet when required. Result of being locked out of the meeting hall. The tennis court oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 member from the thurd estate who were locked out of a meeting of the estates-general. -
bastille is stormed
Bastille was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. This even became one the the deinging moments in the revolution that follow. An angry mob attacked the bastille in terms to get gun poweder in the french revolution. -
King removed from versailles
To solve a major finacial crisis, he summoned an excceptional assebly to meet at the chateau. In the same year under pressur from the people he left versailles with marie-antioneete and was guillitined in 1793. -
1st us of the guillotine
On April 25, 1792, convicted felon Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be executed by the guillotine. While the guillotine became known as a ruthlessly efficient killing machine, its eponym was actually motivated by humanitarian impulses. -
republican calendar began
The Romans borrowed parts of their earliest known calendar from the Greeks. The calendar consisted of 10 months in a year of 304 days. The Romans seem to have ignored the remaining 61 days, which fell in the middle of winter. The 10 months were named Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December. The last six names were taken from the words for five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. Romulus, the legendary first ruler of Rome, is supposed to hav -
Establishment of committee of public saftey
The Committee of Public Safety, created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror, a stage of the French Revolution -
Robespiierre killed
Robspierra was overthrown and arrested by the national convention. As the leading member of the committee of public safety from 1793, robspierre encouraged the execiutiion, mostly by guiltontine, of more than 17,000 enemies of the revolution. -
Napoleon becomes emperor (the frst time)
On May 18, 1804, Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense. Napoleon even paid for Pope Pius VII, who had signed the Concordat of Rome, to travel to France for the occasion, believing that his presence would imbue the event with a solemn, religious feeling -
Napoleon exiled
napoleon exiled to the island of saint helena of the coast of africa. six years later he died -
waterloo
- battle of waterloo was fought on a sunday in present day belgium, then part of the united kingdom of the netherlands where king napoleon fails again.
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Napoleon's Death
longwood, saint helena, ascension and tristan da cunha. Napoléon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars
