Timeline for Revolutions

By savanna15

  • English Bill of Rights

  • Seven Years' War Pece Treaty between Great Britian and France

  • Stamp Act passed by Britian Parliament as a direct taxation of North American colonist

  • Sons of Liberty and others organize to protest and resist Stamp Act

  • Repeal of Stamp Act

  • Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists

  • Riots in Boston met with viloence by British troops

  • Boston Tea party

  • First Continential Congress

  • Declaration of Independance

  • American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and a Treaty of Alliance

  • Ratification of Constitution of the USA

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

  • Storming of Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris

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

  • Beheading of King Louis XVI

  • Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue

  • U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states

  • Frech National Assembly gives citizenship to all free color in the colony of Saint Domingue

  • France declares war on Austria

  • France declares war on Great Britain

  • All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the Freanch Revolutionay authorities to join the French army and fight against Great Britian

  • Toussaint leads troops against the British

  • French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint

  • Toussaint negotiates with the British

  • War ends between Great Britian and France

  • Constitution of Haiti

  • General Leclerc sent by Napolean to subdue colony and re-institue slavery

  • French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independance

  • New Declaration of was between Great Britian and France

  • Napolean declares himself emperor of France

  • Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emeror of Haiti

  • U.S. President Jefferson declares economic boycott of Haiti, France, and Great Britian

  • French occupation of Spain

  • British and the slave trade

  • Declaration 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 doctorine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine