Timeline for Revolutions

By tojohnson178

  • 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, 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

  • Ratification of Constituion of the United States of America

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

  • Storming of the Bastille, 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 Dominigue

  • 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 Britain

  • All slaves on Saint Domingue 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

  • Constituion for Haiti

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

  • New declaration of war between Great Britain and France

  • French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence

  • Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France

  • Jean-Jacpues Dessalines crowns himself emperor 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

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

  • French abolish slave trade

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