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Treaty of Paris
It was negotiated between United States and Great Britain. The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War and recognized American independence. -
Call of the Estate General
The legislative body of France up until the French Revolution. The king would call a meeting of the Estates General when he wanted advice over certain issues. -
Tennis Court Oath
The deputies of the Third Estates who represented commoners as well as the lower clergy, would meet in an indoor tennis court and they took a oath to not disband until a new French constitution had been adopted. -
Storming of the Bastille
Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops stormed and dismantled the Bastille; A royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. -
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March of Versailles
7,ooo working women armed with pitchforks,pikes, and muskets marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intensifying French Revolution. This march brought a end to the great monarchy of Versailles. -
Execution of the King
King Louis XVI was sentenced to death after he was convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers. He was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. -
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Reign of Terror
This began after the death of Louis XVI in 1793. People like Charles which was Marie Antoinette's son disappeared under suspicious circumstances. -
Execution of Robespierre
He was overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine. -
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Napoleonic wars
A series of conflicts fought between France under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte and a number of European nations between 1799 and 1815. During the wars warfare was to change and move towards modern warfare leaving behind forever the idea of war as a sport of kings and moving towards the concept of Total War and the nations in arms. -
Haitian Revolution
Two months after Jean-Jacques Dessalines defeated Napoleon Bonaparte's colonial forces, he proclaims the independence of Saint-Domingue, renaming it Haiti after its original Arawak name. -
Coronation of Nepoleon I
In Notre Dame Cathedral in Pairs, Nepoleon Bonaparte was crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. -
Battle of Waterloo
Marked the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century.He rose through the ranks of the French army during the French Revolution, seized control of the French government in 1799 and became the emperor in 1804. In the battle Napoleons forces were defeated by the British and Prussians, marked the end of his reign and of France's domination in Europe. -
Mexico Gains Independence
Eleven years after the outbreak of the Mexican War of Independence , Spanish Viceroy Juan de O'Donoju signs the Treaty of Cordoba, which approves a plan to make Mexico an independent constitutional monarchy.
