Timeline for Revolutions

By bishop0914

  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights

  • Seven Years' War Peace Treaty btween Great Britain and France

  • Stamp Act passed by British Parliament as a direct taxation of North American colonists

    Sons of Liberty and others orginize to protest and resist the Stamp Act.

  • Repeal of Stamp Act

  • Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on Norrth America colonists

  • Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops

  • Boston Tea Party

  • First Continental Congress

  • Declaration of Independence

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

  • Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America

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

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

  • National Constituent 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

  • French National Assembly gives citizrnship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue

  • French declare was on Austria

  • French declares war on Great Britain

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

  • Toussaint leads troops aginist the British

  • French colonial defected by Toussaint

  • Toussaint negotiates peace with the British

  • Constitution of Haiti

  • General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subduce colony and re-institute slavery

  • New declaration of war between Great Britian and France

  • French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence

  • Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France

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

  • French occupation of Spain

  • British end the slave trade

  • Decleration of self-government in most Latin American colonies

  • French expelled form Spain

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

  • French abolish slave trade

  • U.S. preident Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the America, know as the Monroe Doctrine