world hist

By kyleyounie

  • English Bill of Rights

  • Period: to

    Revolutions

  • Seven year's war peace treaty between Great Britain and France

  • Stamp Act passed by British parliament as a direct taxation of North American colonists

  • Repeal of Stamp Act

  • Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists

  • Riots in Boston met by violence from 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 United States of America

  • 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

  • US Bill of Rights ratified by states

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

  • French 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 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 Great Britain and France

  • French withdraw troops; Haitains declare indpendence

  • Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France

  • Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself Emperor of Haiti

  • US 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 slace trade

  • US President Monroe declared doctrine against European interfernce with the new republics in Americas, known as Monroe Doctrine