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First Submarine
Yale graduate DAVID BUSHNELL (‘75) built the first submarine to actually make an attack on an enemy warship. TECHNOLOGICAL -
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History of Revolutions
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Declaration of Independece
Announced that the thirteen American colonies that were at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. POLITICAL -
End of American Revolution
Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris MILITARY -
Meeting of the Estates-General
A meeting that reunited an equal number of representatives from each Estate to solve this serious political crisis. Everyone met at the Palace of Versailles to debate some major problems. ECONOMIC -
Tennis Court Oath
Noblemen and Clergy lcoked out the peasant civilians at the Estates General, agreed to meet at that location until they recieved the changed they wanted. -
End of Monarchy
National Assembly Metting, the end of Monarchy was ended and the Representative Government began. -
Storming of the Bastille
A group formed of craftsmen and salesmen decided to fight back and ran to the Invalides to steal some weapons. The mob stole 28,000 riffles there, however no powder was to be found. The crowd knew that a pile of powder was stocked in the Bastille, a prison that was a symbol of the King's absolute and arbitrary power. -
Speech of Liberty and Equality
Noblemen made a speech for love of liberty and equality. -
Abolition of Feudalism
Less than a month after the storming of the Bastille, France's National Assembly held a meeting in which the nobles and clergy, driven partly by fear and partly by an outburst of idealism, relinquished their manorial rights within the course of a few hours. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man of the Citizen
a fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. Influenced by the doctrine of natural right, the rights of man are universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself. -
Olympe de Gouge, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
In this pamphlet she provides a declaration of the rights of women to parallel the one for men, thus criticizing the deputies for having forgotten women. She addressed the pamphlet to the Queen, Marie Antoinette, though she also warned the Queen that she must work for the Revolution or risk destroying the monarchy altogether. SOCIAL -
Constitution
The National Assembly completes a new constitution. -
War was Declared on Austria by France
France declares war on Austria, at the sight of their enemy French soliders fleed. -
Louis XVI
Louis XVI was execute by the Guillotine after trying to escape. -
Robespierre
Robespierre is killed. -
Louisiana urchase
The US bought the Louisana Purchase from France. -
New King
Napolean takes the crown from the Pope and crowns himself as king. -
Napoleonic invasion of Russia
All of continental Europe was under his control, and the invasion of Russia was an attempt to concour it as well. MILITARY -
Napoleonic Invasion of Russia
Napoleam began his invasion of Russia, that led him to losing the war. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." CULTURAL
