Timeline For Revolutions

  • 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 Colonist

  • Sons of Liberty and others organize to protest and resist the stamp act

  • Repeal of Stamp Act

  • Townsend Act, new revanue taxes on North America Colonists

  • Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops

  • Boston Tea Party

  • First Continental Congress

  • Declaration Of Independence

  • American and French represenatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce 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 the Bastille, prison 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 give citizen ship 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 to fight against Britain

  • 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

  • Constitution fot 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 indepndence

  • Napolean crowns himself emperor of France

  • Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emporer of Haiti

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

  • British end the slave trade

  • French occupation of spain

  • 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 interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine