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France's independence and iconic new view of human civilization
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Louis XVI summons the Estates General due to the economic crisis in France: The First State (clergy), The Second State (nobles) and The Third State (peasants and bourgeoisie) -
Constitution of the National Assembly -
The Third state, after not being able to reunite and speak at the National Assembly, reunite at a tennis court to swear to themselves to not separate until France gets a Constitution. -
The Bastille being a very respectable high security prison, there was also the beheading of ....... -
The noble and clerical had their privileges abolished. There was also the redistribution of land by burning ownership documents..? -
most important document now known to humanity -
They were captured the next day at Varennes when the king payed with a coin with his face on it. -
A new Constitution is ratified with support of Louis XIV -
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Official ending of Louis XVI's monarchy. -
French Republic is proclaimed -
Marie Antoinette is executed as well 9 months later. -
Beginning of the Reign of Terror, where Robespierre made a following of executions of anyone who wouldn't agree with him. -
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A very fragile system that will crumble soon -
after being through numerous unstable phases, Napoleon Bonaparte sees an opportunity. -
Progress all over the world.
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1801, signs The Concordat and establishes peace with the Catholic Church
1802, peace with foreign enemies, re-establishment of slavery, adoption of the Napoleonic Code
1804, starts conquering Europe and forming the empire -
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By the Pope -
With dominion of 130 European states -
after numerous defeats since 1812, he goes on exile to Elba Island, which makes France go back to monarchy with Louis XVIII -
leaded by Metternich, Austria's ambassador in France, who creates it in order to avoid any other crazy and violent revolutions like the French one. -
there was a denial of nationalities all over Europe and a messy distribution between countries' frontiers, which made the Vienna Congress very fragile. -
the after math of France's crazy shenanigans
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he's received with honor, yet he only governs for 100 days -
Napoleon's greatest and final defeat, then he's back to exile in Saint Helena.
He dies 6 years later. -
between Austria, Prussia and Russia. They will later include the UK and France -
after Napoleon's Empire glorious failure, France went back to monarchy again, with various changes. But when Louis XVIII died and his brother Charles X took his place, the monarchy became once again a nuisance. He basically brought the Old Regime back. -
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Charles X wants to eliminate freedom of the press, dissolve the Chamber, make the electoral corps shorter and arrange that year's elections, and the French weren't happy about it -
Barricades start appearing on the 27th, Charles X is taken down on the 29th and La Fayette is the new head of the National Garde. -
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Empress of India and responsible for the British Empire's more eventful years -
Queen Victoria was a certainly important character in the XIXth century.
Under her reign there was the brutal Imperial force against India and the Opium Wars in China.
We wonder why they don't teach this in British schools. -
all over Europe, the libertarians and nationalists rose. -
Now it's Napoleon's nephew's turn.
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the first democratic elections in France, where Louis Napoleon Bonaparte wins the elections with 74% of the votes. -
Not happy with the idea that he won't be president for much longer, Louis Napoleon suggests a change on the Constitution, when he doesn't get what he wants, he dissolves the National Assembly and establishes a voting system that makes electors only be able to vote on plebiscites that don't really influence any decision, since all the power is held in the hands of the emperor, Napoleon III -
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was kind enough to ask in a plebiscite if the French wanted the re-establishment of the Great French Empire. They say yes. -
The French Empire, the United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire ally against Russia and win. -
France, Austria, Piedmont, Turkey, Prussia, Russia and England get together to sign peace treaties. -
They are the two heads of the Industrial revolution around 1860. They were at the top of industrial production. -
so he gets one, taking advantage of the war between Mexicans and North Americans, but the Mexicans don't really like it so they ask him to leave -
But England, the worldwide industrial superpower fell short to the United States, because they used Taylorism, a much more effective form of industrial work.
All though the Industrial revolution did come with some notorious cons, like very low wages, very monotone work, and even child labor. -
France goes back to a Republic -
In order to stop child labor in France, Jules Ferry stablished laws that made children go to school mandatory. This would soon spread around the world...except it didn't because nowadays in cacao farms in Africa there are children working with machetes in the burning sun. -
The crisis that put French and British imperialism in coalition.
This battle was between the very small French army along some Sudanese soldiers against the massive British army. They wanted to dominate Fachoda, a very strategic spot in Africa. The French had to back up.
They finally settled to have an alliance that would later help them in WW1. -
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The assassination of the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Franz-Ferdinand was what pushed all the long term causes to initiate this world war. -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, which makes Germany declare war on Russia, France and Belgium, then the United Kingdom declares war on Germany, Austria-Hungry also declares war on Russia and Serbia declares war on Austria-Hungary. It goes on and on, it was the domino effect of the declaration of wars. -
After the president Woodrow Wilson stated that he wasn't going to send the USA to this European war, he convinces his people to back him up with the orators of 4 minute Men, who spoke in theaters and restaurants.