dates of stuff

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  • Treaty of Paris September 3, 1783

    signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783

  • Call of the Estate General (May 5, 1789)

    there where 3 of these and Louis XVI converted it and stuff

  • Tennis Court Oath (June 20, 1789)

    the members of the french estates took this oath

  • Storming of the Bastille (July 14, 1789)

    occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris.

  • March on Versailles (October 5-6, 1789)

    this is where a bunch of people marched and yelled give us bread since they where not getting food

  • Execution of the King (January 21, 1793)

    One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution

  • Reign of Terror (September 5 1793- July 28 1794)

    Revolutionary government decided to make “Terror” the order of the day (September 5 decree) and to take harsh measures against those suspected of being enemies of the Revolution

  • Execution of Robespierre (July 27 1794) Execution of Robespierre

    French lawyer and politician, as well as one of the best known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.

  • Haitian Revolution January 1, 1804

    successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue

  • December 2, 1804 Coronation of Napoleon I

    The coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French took place on Sunday December 2, 1804 at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. It marked the instantiation of modern empire

  • Battle of Waterloo (June of 1815)

    Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition:

  • 1803 – November 20, 1815 Napoleonic Wars

    a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom.

  • Mexico Gains Independence August 24, 1821

    an armed conflict, and the culmination of a political and social process which ended the rule of Spain in 1821 in the territory of New Spain. The war had its antecedent in Napoleon's French invasion of Spain in 1808