The Atlantic Revolutions

By kimrash930

  • English Bill of Rights

  • Seven Years' War Peace Treaty

    between Great Britain and France

  • Stamp Act passed by British Parliament as a direct taxation

    of North American Colonists. Sons of Liberty and others organize to protest and resist the Stamp Act

  • Repeal of Stamp Act

  • Townsend Act: revenue taxes on colonists

  • Riots in Boston met w/ violence by British troops

  • Boston Tea Party

  • First Continental Congress

  • Declaration of Independence

  • American & French sign Treaties

    Treaty of Amity & Commerce & Treaty of Alliance

  • Ratification of Constitution of USA

  • Estates General convened for 1st time in 174 years in France

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • Nat. Constituent Assembly & French Declaration

    French Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • Beheading of King Louis XVI

  • Slave rebellion in St. Domingue

  • U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states

  • French Nat. Assembly gives citizenship to St. Domingue

    Gives citizenship to all free people of color

  • France declares war on Austria

  • France declares war on Great Britain

  • Slaves on St. Domingue emancipated to join French army

    Emanicipated by French revolutionary authorites to fight against British

  • Toussaint leads troops against British

  • French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint

  • Toussaint negotiates peace with the British

  • War ends between Great Britain and France

  • Condtitution for Haiti

  • General Leclerc sent by Napolean

    to subdue colony and re-institute slavery

  • New declaration of war

    between Great Britain and France

  • French withdraw troops

    Haitians declare independence

  • Napolean crowns himself emperor of France

  • Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti

  • US President Jefferson declares economic boycott

    of Haiti, France, and Great Britain

  • French occupation of Spain

  • British end slave trade

  • Declaration of self-gov't in latin American colonies

  • French expelled from Spain

  • Napolean defeated and french empire reduced

  • French abolish slave trade

  • US President Monroe declares doctrine against Europe

    because of their interference with new republics in the Americas