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The history of the guillotine started long before the French Revolution, but when and where exactly, nobody knows. This guillotine like machine was used at the execution of Murcod Ballagh in Ireland 1/4/1307.
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The Social Contract originated during the Age Of Enlightenment.
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A revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate.
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When members of the Third Estate defied the king and demanded a national constitution
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The Storming of Bastille occured because the people felt the need to arm themselves and arms were stored at the Bastille.
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The rights of men and citizens
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A women riot that took place during the first stages of the French Revolution.
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King Louis XVI was executed by Guillotine
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The Committee of Public Safety exercised executive power in France during the period known as the Reign of Terror
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Replaced the Gregorian Calender.
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In 1794 Maxemilien de Robespierre was overthrown and guillotined
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The Directory was a five-member committee which governed France from 1795 until 1799.
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The Napoleonic Code was a unified legal code produced in France and enaced by Napoleon is 1804
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Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years.
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The Foreign Policy in his struggle againt Great Britian during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Napoleon is exiled to the mediteranian island of Elba
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Marked the final defeat of French military leader and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
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In February 1821, Napoleon's health began to deteriorate rapidly. He died on 5 May 1821.
