Sarah Grimkes life Timeline

  • French Revolutionary Wars Begin

    -Battle of Valmy
    -Jacobins seize power in France.
    -National convention extablishes repuclic and gets rid of monarchy.
  • Second Partition of Poland by Prussia, Russia, and Austria

    -French National Convention declares universal conscription.
    -Louis XVI is executed by National Convention.
    -Cotton Gin is invented by Eli Whitney
    -French ban Catholis
  • Reighn Of Terror

    In France
  • Napolean Bonaparte is named Comander of the French Army.

    -3rd Partition of Poland by Prussia, Russia, and Austria.
    -Common wealth destroyed.
  • Napolean assumes control of the Army of Italy

    -@ battle of arcola
    -Napolean marries josephine
    -British conquer cylon
    -Catherine the Great dies.
    -George Washingtons Farewell Address
    -First succesfull smallpox vaccine given
  • Battle of the Nile

    -Napoleans army were stranded in Egypt.
  • Rosetta Stone Discovered

  • Thomas Jefferson elected President

  • Act of union between Brittian and Ireland

    Created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Treaty of Amiens

  • Lousiana Purchase

    -Treaty of Paris signed
  • Tripolitan War

    -Napolean is crowned emperor of France.
    -Lewis and Clark Start expedition
  • Battle of Austerlitz

    -Horatio Nelson beats French at battle of Trafalgar
    -Treaty of pressburg-dissolves Holy Roman Empire
  • French Beat Prussia @ Battle of Jena-auerstedt

    -British aquire Cape Colony
  • Treaty of Tilsit

    Marks high water mark of napoleans empire
  • French occupy spain

    peninsular war begins
  • Bolivar in South America

    Mexican war of independence begins
  • Napolean leads French invasion of Russia

    War of 1812 Begins with us decleration of war on the united kingdom
  • The sixth coalition beats Napoleons army @ Battle of lepizig

  • Congress of Vienna

    Napolean is exilled to St. Elba
  • War of 1812 ends

    Treaty of Ghent
    napolean escapes; attempts to reestablish power; defeated @ waterloo
  • Spain cedes Florida to Usa

  • Greek Wars of Independence begins

    mexico gains independence under Treaty of Corodoba
  • Brazil gains independence from Portugal

    rosetta stone is decipered
  • The Monroe Doctrine

  • Peruvian Independence

  • erie canal opens

  • massacre of the Janissaries

  • andrew Jackson is President

  • Lois-Phillippe become constitutional monarch of France

  • Belgium decleares independence

  • Treaty of Constantinople

    English reform atcs
  • revolt in spain

  • Spanish Inquisition Ends

  • 2nd seminole war begins

  • Texan war of Independence

  • Victoria assumes english throne

    canadian rebellion
  • Photography is invented

  • First opium war begins

    afghan-british war begins
  • britain anexes new zeland

  • canada united

  • 2nd seminole war ends

    first afghan-britsh war ends
    gold and copper is discovered in austrelia
  • ymca founded

  • florida becomes a state

    irish patatoe famine begins
  • us -mexican war begins

  • Revolution of 1848 begins

    treaty of hidalgo signed
    gold discovered in california
  • compromise of 1850

    taiping rebellion in china
  • gadsden purchase treaty

  • crimean war begins

    1854-1855
  • declaration of paris

    massacre of potawatomie creek
    second opium war begins
  • the battles of magenta and solferino

    on the origins of species by charles darwin
  • abraham lincoln becomes president

    south carolina suceedes from union
  • civil war begins

    great britatin is neutral
  • battle of antietam

    emancipation proclimation issued
  • battle of gettysburg

  • end of civil war

    lincoln is assasinated
    13th amendment
  • fall of maximillian

    us buys alaska
    canadian confederation
    austro-hungarian compromise
    reconstruction act
  • dimonds discovered in south america

  • suez canal is open

  • battle of sedan

    siege of paris begins
    rome is captured by italians
    franco-prussian war begins
    spanish succesion crisis
  • treaty of frackfort

  • sarah grimke dies