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Hobbes writes Leviathan
A book for absolutist apoligits, it argues that a contract existed between the King and his subjects because the latter hates everyone -
Locke writes Two Treatieses of Government
A social contract also exists, but because humanity needs impartial mediators -
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French and Indian War
The North American theater of the Seven Years War. It actually does something on the ground. France loses -
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Louis 16
He funds revolutions, and acts like a dick -
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American Revolution
France funds Americans to sucessfully repel British from the Colonies -
Calling of the Estates General
WE NEED MORE MONEY!111!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!1!one -
Tennis Court Oath
The Third Estate is as mad as hell, and is going to quote Network, the movie! -
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The Great Fear
Peasants raised hell in rural France in self-defence -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Attempted to write a French bill of rights -
Flight to Varennes
Louis 16 attempts to escape France, and fails miserably -
Legislative Assembly created
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French Revolutionary Wars
France v. Everyone Else in Europe -
Louis 16 dead
He got his head chopped off -
Comittee of Public Safety
Everyone dies -
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Reign of Terror
Lots of useless bloodshed -
Robespierre dies
The little $#!+ needed his head given the old chop-chop! -
coup of 18 Brumaire
Napoleon takes the helm -
Imperator Napoleon
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French -
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Invasion of Russia
Grandfather Frost pwns all! -
Grandfather Frost kills the French Army singlehandedly
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Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon finally is defeated, and ABBA becomes a worldwide sensation
