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Treaty of Paris
Ended the American Revolution. Signed in 1783 by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. This created the United States as a new and independent country. -
Call of the Estate General
The call of the Estate General was a French congress that originated in the medieval period and consisted of three estates. -
Tennis Court Oath
The members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require. -
Storming of the Bastille
A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. -
Execution of the King
The execution of Louis XVI by means of the guillotine, a major event of the French. -
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Reign of Terror
A label given by some historians to a period during the French Revolution. -
Execution of Robespierre
The same day, 28 July 1794, in the afternoon, Robespierre was guillotined without trial in the place de la Revolution. -
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Napoleonic Wars
A series of major conflicts putting the French empire and its allies against a array of European powers led by the United Kingdom. -
Haitian Revolution
A successful anti slavery and anti colonial insurrection by self liberated slaves against the french. -
Coronation of Napoleon I
Took place at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. It marked the instantiation of modern empire. -
Battle of Waterloo
Battle on Sunday 18, 1815 in present day Belgium and then part of the United Kingdom. -
Mexico Gains Independence
The Mexican War of independence was an armed conflict which ended the rule of Spain in 1821 in the territory of New Spain.