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John Locke's "Two Treatises on Government" advocates for natural rights and limited government power. -
Montesquieu's "The Spirit of the Laws" promotes the separation of powers in government. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Social Contract" explores the idea of a society based on collective will. -
Voltaire's writings - advocating for religious tolerance and freedom of speech -
This is the day that Napoleon was born -
American Revolution - heavily influenced by Enlightenment ideas, leading to the establishment of a republic based on individual rights -
The Britans signed at a different time but this is when it officially was signed by both. -
This was the start of the french revolution and when they created the three estates. -
The tennis court oath is that the National Assembly swore not to stop meeting until France had a constitution -
hundreds of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a state prison, seizing 250 barrels of gunpowder and freeing its prisoners. -
Great Fear in the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate. -
It abolished both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate (the nobility) and the tithes gathered by the First Estate (the Catholic clergy). -
This explains it. This says that men should have equal rights and free rights. -
Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles. -
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution that caused the immediate subordination of the Catholic Church in France to the French government. -
The event in which King Louis XVI and the royal family attempted to escape Paris. -
This is when the Tuileries got attacked and burned. -
The Reign of Terror was a period of around a year during the French Revolution during which many people were executed. -
She died on this day due to attacking the Tuileries and her head got sliced on the guillotine. -
Thermidorian Reaction in the French Revolution, the parliamentary revolt initiated on 9 Thermidor, year II, which resulted in the fall of Maximilien Robespierre and the collapse of revolutionary fervour and the Reign of Terror in France. -
Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hotel de Ville in Paris. The next day, Robespierre and 21 of his followers were taken to the Place de la Revolution, where they were executed by guillotine before a cheering crowd. -
Napoleon married Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie. -
Napoleon crowned himself emperor. -
This day is when Napoleon first day on the island. -
Napoleon died of stomach cancer while he was on the island -
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The Nazi Party assumes control of Germany. -
They put a law against overcrowding the schools. -
Nazi Germany unleashed World War II by invading Poland. The war radicalized Nazi policies, leading to brutal occupations of conquered territory. German authorities in occupied Poland established ghettos for Jews. They also introduced harsh measures against non-Jewish Poles. -
Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last German and Hungarian units fighting in the encircled city of Budapest, Hungary. Soviet troops will drive the last German units and their Arrow Cross collaborators out of western Hungary. -
Japan Surrenders. WWll ended.