Revolution Timeline

By amk101

  • English Bill of Rights

  • Seven Years War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France

  • Stamp Act passed by British Parliment as a direct taxtation of North American Colonists

  • Repeal of Stamp Act

  • Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American Colonists

  • Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops

  • Boston Tea Party

  • First Continental Congress

  • Declaration of Independance

  • American and French representatives sign two treaties im Paris: a Treaty of Amity and commerece of the United States of America

  • Estates General Convened for the first time in 174 years in France

  • National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • Ratification of Constitution of the USA

  • Storming of the Batille, prison (and armory) in Paris

  • Beheading of King Louis XVI

  • Slave rebellion in Saint Dominque

  • U.S Bill of Rights ratified by states

  • France declares war on Austria

  • France declares war on Great Britain

  • All slaves on Saint Dominque emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British

  • Toussaint leads troops against the British

  • French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint

  • Toussaint negotiates peace with the British

  • War ends between Great Britain and France

  • Constituition 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 independance

  • Napolean crowns himself emporer of France

  • Jean-jacques Dessalines crowns himself emporer of Haiti

  • U.S president Jefferson declares economic boycott of Haiti, France, and Great Britain

  • French occupation of Spain

  • British end the slave trade

  • Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies

  • French expelled from Spain

  • Napolean defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone

  • French abolish slave trade

  • U.S President Monroe declares doctrine against European interferance with the new republicans in the americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine