Revolutions

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  • English Bill of Rights

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

  • Stamp Act passed by British Parliment as a direct taxation of North American Colonists

  • 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

  • Radification of Constitution of the USA

  • Estates Generalconvevned for the first time in 174 years

  • Storming of the bastille, prison in Paris

  • National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the rights of men

  • Beheading of King Louis XVI

  • Slave Rebellion in St Domingue

  • U.S. Bill Of Rights ratified

  • French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of St. Domingue

  • French declares war on Austria

  • France delcares war on Great Britain

  • all slaves in St. 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

  • Constitution for Haiti

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

  • New declaration of war between Fracne and Britain

  • French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence

  • Nepoleon delcares himself emperor of France

  • Jean-Jacques 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 declares doctrine against European intereference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine