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  • UNSTEADY PERIOD IN FRANCE .

    Economic and financial crisis because of monarchie and war expenses. Agricole crisis because of the weather. And social and politic crisis because it's a very unequal society
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    Cahiers de doléances

    They were ordered by king Louis XVI to give everyone the chance to express their hopes and grievances directly to the King.
  • Estates General

    Estates General

  • Tennis Court Oath

    Tennis Court Oath

    The assembly's deputies pledge to keep united until the King approves the Constitution they created.
  • The Storming of the Bastille

    The Storming of the Bastille

    Revolutionaries took over the Bastille, that at the time was seen as a symbol of the monarchie's power.
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    The Great Fear

    The great fear was a period of panic and riot by peasants in which they burned the charts with the feudal rights.
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    End of Old Regime.

    Abolition of privileges
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

    Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

    The French National Constituent Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution.
  • Versailles's invasion by women

    Versailles's invasion by women

    Women invade Versailles to get signed the abolition of privileges.
  • Festival of the Federation

    Festival of the Federation

    In the Champs of Mars, on the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, the royal family pledges fidelity to the nation and seams to accept the revolution's reforms.
  • King's escape

    King's escape

    The royal family tries to escape France to Varennes but they are caught. This creates a rupture between the nation and the king, his image is degraded.
  • French Constitution of 1791

    French Constitution of 1791

    The first written constitution in France which established popular sovereignty.
  • Prussia- Austria War declaration

  • Brunswick Manifesto

    Brunswick Manifesto

    Confirms connivance and trahison of the King Louis XVI.
  • The storming of the Tuileries Palace

    The storming of the Tuileries Palace

    The abolishment of the monarchie that leads to a new constitution withs "universal" suffrage.
  • First French victory to the Austrians

  • Proclamation of the Republic

    Proclamation of the Republic

    The first French Republic.
  • Beginning of the trial of Louis XVI

    Beginning of the trial of Louis XVI

    He was convicted of high treason and other crimes.
  • Louis XVI execution

    Louis XVI execution

    Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. Rivalry between Girondins and Sans-Culottes.
  • Federalist Revolt

    Federalist Revolt

    Arrestation of the Girondins and power taken by Montagnards
  • Law of Suspects

    Law of Suspects

    Everyone who is suspected to be with the Girondins will be executed. Execution of thousands of milliards of suspects.
  • Execution of Robespierre

    Execution of Robespierre

    Montagnards are divided between the ones who want to keep going and the ones who don't. Robespierre was a dictator.
  • Conservative Republic

    The plaine deputies take over the power. 5 directories at the power and census suffrage comes back.
  • Napoleon's Coup d'État

    Napoleon's Coup d'État

  • Concordat of 1801

    Concordat of 1801

    reconciliation between revolutionaries and Catholics
  • Bonaparte: a consul for life

    Bonaparte: a consul for life

    Napoleon's dictatorship: opponents arrested and press censorship
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    Peace with Austria and United Kingdom

  • Napoleonic Code

    Napoleonic Code

    Reorganization of society for unification of France.
  • Napoleon the first

    Napoleon the first

    Napoleon's sacred as emperor
  • Napoleon's abdication to the power

    Napoleon's abdication to the power

    He is exiled to the island of Elbe for one hundred days and the monarchie is restored with Louis XVIII.
  • Charter of 1814

    Establishes the king's power and the Parlement's power separation.
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    Napoleon returns

    He returns for a brief tie but then he looses at Waterloo and is exiled definitely at the Saint Helene island.
  • Louis XVIII dies --> Charles X

    Louis XVIII dies --> Charles X

    Charles X takes the power after Louis XVIII dies. He is ultraroyalist and breaks the balance.
  • Grec's independance

    Grec's independance

    They fought with the Ottomans and won, principle of support of people's rights is born.
  • Napoleon dies

    Napoleon dies

  • French Revolution of 1830( Trois Glorieuses)

    French Revolution of 1830( Trois Glorieuses)

    It led to the overthrow of King Charles X. 1814 Charter is revised.
  • Paris Revolution of 1848

    Paris Revolution of 1848

    Ended the July Monarchy and established the French Second Republic. It sparked a wave of revolutions in 1848 in Europe.
  • Springtime of the Peoples

    Springtime of the Peoples

    People express their wishes of freedom
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    French Expedition to Mexico

    Benito Juarez
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    Scramble for Africa

    Europe needed more materials after industrial revolution.
  • Fachoda

    Fachoda

    Fachoda was a place in Africa which was an English base in 1865, then the Frenchs tried to conquer it in 1898 and at the end the UK and France came to an agreement and became allies.
  • Franz Ferdinand Assassination

    Franz Ferdinand Assassination

    He was murdered in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist.
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    War declarations

    July 28th: Austro-Hungary declares war on Serbia
    1st of august: Germany declares war on Russia
    august 3rd; Germany declares war on France
    august 4th: The United Kingdom declares war on Germany
    august 5th: Austro-Hungary declares war on Russia
    august 3rd
  • War of movement to war of position

    War of movement to war of position

    The germans arrived to French territory and they held on to it with the trenches.
  • Creed Commission

    Creed Commission

    Committee on public information to convince USA citizens to go to war