Timeline for Revolutions

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  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Right

  • Seven Years War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France

  • Stamp Act passed by British Parliment 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 Constitution 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

  • U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states

  • Beheading of King Louis XVI

  • Slave Rebellion in Saint Domingue

  • French declares war on Austria

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

  • Slaves of Saint Domingue are emancipated by French authorities to join the French Army and fight the British

  • France declares war on Great Britian

  • 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 Lecerc sent by Napolean to subdue colony and re-institute slavery

  • French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence

  • New Declaration of war between Great Britian and France

  • Napolean crowns himself emperor of France

  • Jean Jaques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti

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

  • British end the slave trade

  • French occupation of Spain

  • Declarations of self-govenment in most Latin American colonies

  • French Expelled from Spain

  • Napolean defeated and French empirereduced in Europe to France alone

  • French abolish slave trade

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