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King removed from Versailles
Is a royal château in Versailles, in the Île-de-France region of France. -
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Publication of Hobbes work- Social Contract
Social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live. -
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Formation of the National Assembly
Was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General -
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Tennis Court Oath
The members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath -
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Bastille is stormed
The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris -
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
Is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights -
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1st use of the Guillotine
Convicted felon Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be executed by the guillotine -
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Robespierre killed
Is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention -
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Execution of King Louis XVI
By means of the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution ("Revolution Square", formerly Place Louis XV, and renamed Place de la Concorde in 1795) in Paris. -
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Establishment of Committee of Public Safety
He Committee of Public Safety was set up on April 6, 1793, during one of the crises of the Revolution, when France was beset by foreign and civil war. -
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Establishment of the Directory
The French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III -
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Napoleonic Code started
Is the French civil code established under Napoléon I it was drafted by a commission of four eminent jurists -
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Napoleon becomes Emperor (the first time)
In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head. -
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Continental System
Was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars -
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Napoleon Exiled
Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
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Waterloo
A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt. -
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Napoleon’s Death
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars. -
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Republican calendar began
Was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune