Timeline for Revolutions

  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights
  • Seven years war peace treaty between Great Britan and France

  • Stamp Act passed by British Parlament 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 with violence by british troops

  • Boston Tea Party

  • first contenental congress

  • Declaration of Independence

  • American and Frecnch representatives sign 2 treaties in Paris: a treaty of Amity and commerce aand a treaty of alliance

  • estates general convened for the first in174 years in france

  • Storming of Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris

  • Ratifacation of constitution in the USA

  • national constituent assembly and french declaration of the rights of man

  • beheading of king Louis the XVI

  • slave rebellion in Saint Domingue

  • 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 Britan

  • All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and Fight against the Brithish

  • Toussaint leads troops against the British

  • French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint

  • Toussaint negotiates peace with the Brithish

  • War ends between Great Britan and France

  • constitution for Haiti

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

  • French withdraw troops: Haitians declare indeppendence

  • Napoleon declares himself emperor of France

  • Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti

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

  • French occupation of Spain

  • British end slave trade

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