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Publication of Hobbes work- Social Contract
the government fails to secure their natural rights or satisfy the best interests of society citizens can withdraw their obligation to obey or change the leadership, -
Formation of the National Assembly
Was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General; thereafter the Legislative Assembly . -
Tennis Court Oath
the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate, and toreassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established. -
Bastille is stormed
The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
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. -
King removed from Versailles
The Palace of Versailles is the central part of a complex that housed the French government, most notably its royalty, during the reigns of Louis XIV Louis XV and Louis XVI. -
1st use of the Guillotine
On April 25, 1792, convicted felon Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be executed by the guillotine. In 1791 the National Assembly made decapitation the only legal form of capital punishment in France, but the state executioner, Charles-Henri Sanson, knew this presented practical problems. -
Execution of King Louis XVI
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. -
Robespierre killed
the architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution. -
Establishment of Committee of Public Safety
formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror, a stage of the French Revolution. -
Republican calendar began
, also commonly called the French Revolutionary Calendar, was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805. -
Establishment of the Directory
French Directoire, the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799. It included a bicameral legislature known as the Corps Législatif. -
Napoleonic Code started
is the French civil code established under Napoléon I in 1804. It was drafted by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered into force. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor (the first time)
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. Instead, he placed the crown on his own head, and then crowned Josephine Empress. -
Continental System
was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Napoleon Exiled
emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands -
Napoleon’s Death
Was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.
