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1947 BCE
Establishment of Committee of Public Society
Established republic against foreign attacks.Established republic against internal rebellion. -
1793 BCE
Republican Calendar Began
Earliest calendar used by the Romans is obscure -
1789 BCE
1st use of the Guillotine
The notorious killing machine of the French Revolution.Used to behead thousands of people. -
1789 BCE
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights -
1762 BCE
Publication of Hobbes work
Founder of the social contract tradition.Life in the state of nature is "solitary,poor, and short" -
Formation of the National Assembly
Revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the 3rd estate -
Tennis Court Oath
Third estate established itself as National Assembly -
Bastille is stormed
France faced a major economic crisis -
Execution of King Louis XVI
The monarchy fell after the attack on the Tuilenes.Louis was arrested -
Napoleonic Code Started
Not the first legal code to be established in European country with a civil legal system -
Napolean becomes Emperor
Extensive and powerful influence of modern wond -
Continental System
A foreign policy of Napoleon 1 of France -
Napoleon Exited
Exiled from the throne and banished to Mediterranean islands -
Waterloo
Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two armies of the seventh constitution -
Napoleons Death
stomach cancer, found evidence of stomach ulcer -
Establishment of the Directory
5 member committee which governed French.Replaced the committee of Public Saftey -
Robespiere Killed
French lawyer and politician.
Best known and most influential figures associated with thee French Revolution. -
King Removed From Versialles/ Womens March
Weakening of army meant that it was unable to control the miltanstic wings of Nazi