Timeline for Revolutions

By kylejc

  • English Bill of Rights

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

  • Stamp Act passed by British Parliament as a direct taxation of North American colonists, Sons if Liberty and others organize to protest and resist the Stamp Act

  • 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 Independence

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

  • Ratifacation of Constitution of the United States of America

  • Estates General convened for the first time in 147 years in France

  • Storming of the Bastillle, 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 citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue

  • France Declares war on Austria

  • France Declares war on Great Britian

  • All Slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the Franch revolutionary autorities 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 Britian and France

  • Constitution for Haiti

  • General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue 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

  • Jean-Jacques Desssalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti

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

  • French occupation of Spain

  • British end the Slave Trade

  • Declarations of Self-Government in most Latin-American colonies

  • French expelled from Spain

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

  • French abolish slave trade

  • U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine