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Publication of Hobbes Social Contract work
The social contract was about the lives of individuals in the state of nature. -
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Formation of the National Assembly
was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate. http://www.cliomusings.com/2012/02/french-revolution-estates-general-and.htm -
Tennis Court Oath
Vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established. -
Bastille is stormed
attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. -
King removed from Versailles
King tried to sneak out and get out of Versailles, but got caught and then permanently removed. -
Republican calendar began
was a calendar created and used during the French Revolution -
Execution of King Louis XVI
it was a major event of the French Revolution -
Establishment of Committee of Public Safety
formed the defector executive government in France during the Reign of Terror -
Robespierre killed
is overthrown and arrested by the national convention -
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Establishment of the Directory
the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III -
Napoleonic Code started
It was promulgated as the "Civil Code of French" -
Napoleon becomes Emperor (the first time)
the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years -
Continental System
was a foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars -
napoleon Exiled
banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba -
Waterloo
a battle of 1815 in which Napoleon met his final defeat -
Napoleon's Death
he died of stomach cancer -
1st use of the Guillotine
ruthlessly efficient killing machine
