Kody Timm- timeline

By metallica424

  • english bill of rights

  • seven years war peace treaty between great britain and france, sons of liberty and others organize to protest and resist the stamp act

  • stamp act passed by british parliament as a direct taxation of north american colonists

  • repeal of stamp act

  • townsend act, new revenues taxes on north american colonists

  • riots in boston met with violence by british troops

  • boston tea party

  • first continental congress

  • declaration of independance

  • american and french representatives sign two treaties in paris: a treaty of amity and commerse 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

  • beheading of king louis 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 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 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 great britain and france

  • french withdraw troops; haitians declare independance

  • napoleon crowns himself emperor of france

  • jean-jacques dessalines crowns himself emperor of haiti

  • U.S. president jefferson declaires economic boycott of haiti, france, and great britian

  • 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 declaires doctrine against european interference with the new republics in the americas, known as the monroe doctrine