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14 18th century. 15 19th century. 16 20th century. ... This is a timeline of French history, ... It is the first time since 1681 that a monarch goes to Alsace.
The "Philosophes" were 18th-century French intellectuals who dominated the French Enlightenment and were influential across Europe. [41] The philosopher Denis Diderot was editor in chief of the famous Enlightenment accomplishment, the 72,000-article Encyclopédie (1751–72). [42] It sparked a revolution in learning throughout the enlightened ...
1718: The city of New Orleans is founded by the French in North America. 1718: Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is killed by Robert Maynard in a North Carolina inlet on the inner side of Ocracoke Island. 1718 – 1730: Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire. 1719: The Spanish attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails.
Establishment of the French First Republic (1792) Execution of Louis XVI (1793) Thermidorian Reaction (1794) French Directory (1795) Coup of 18 Brumaire (1799) War of the First Coalition. (1792–1797) Location: Western, Central, and Southern Europe, West Indies. French Republic.
July 21 – August 14: the Great Fear: Riots and peasant revolts in Strasbourg (July 21), Le Mans (July 23), Colmar, Alsace, and Hainaut (July 25). July 28: Jacques Pierre Brissot begins publication of Le Patriote français, an influential newspaper of the revolutionary movement known as the Girondins. August 1789.
By the mid-18th century the French Enlightenment had found a focus in the project of the Encyclopédie. [24] The philosophical movement was led by Voltaire and Rousseau, who argued for a society based upon reason rather than faith and Catholic doctrine, for a new civil order based on natural law, and for science based on experiments and ...
The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century. It lasted from 18 May 1804 to 3 May 1814 and again briefly from 20 March ...
In the 3rd century, Western Europe started to be invaded by Germanic tribes from the north and the east, and some of the groups settled in Gaul.In the history of the French language, the most important groups are the Franks in northern France, the Alemanni in the modern German/French border area (), the Burgundians in the Rhône (and the Saone) Valley and the Visigoths in the Aquitaine region ...