Enlightenment and French Revolution

By tyler.wheeler1

  • May 5, 1789 meeting with the Estates-General

    marking the beginning of the french revolution

  • Tennis Court Oath

    never to stop meeting until a constitution and had been established

  • Storming of the Bastille

    it demonstrated that a force of people could challenge a monarchy and overpower it

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    liberty,property,safety and resistance to Oppression

  • Women's March on Versailles

    concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread women from the marketplaces of paris led

  • Execution of King Louis XVI

    the flight to varennes

  • Reign of Terror (Will be a Timespan, meaning you will have 2 dates)

    sept 5 1793 and july 27 1794 andd a period of state sanctioned violence during the french revolution

  • Maximillian Robespierre's execution

    he got exacuted by guillotine

  • Napoleonic Code is established

    still extant, with revisions. It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America

  • Napoleon Crowns himself emperor

    Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. According to legend, during the coronation he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself, thus displaying his rejection of the authority of the Pontiff.

  • Peninsular War (another timespan, 2 dates)

    napolean was exiled to the island of elba in italy