French Revolution

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  • Napoleon is exiled to Elba

    Napoleon is exiled to Elba

  • Great Fear sweeps France

  • Poor women of Paris march on Versailles

    Poor women of Paris march on Versailles

  • Third Constitution is adopted

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • Citizens storm the Bastille

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    Moderate

    The Assembly at this early stage was dominated by moderate reformers from the bourgeois and noble classes. Most members hoped to keep the king as a ceremonial figurehead by turning France into a constitutional monarchy.

  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted

  • Estates General meets

  • Constitution creates a limited monarchy

  • National Assembly is formed

  • Royal Family attempts to flee France

  • France becomes a Republic

  • Paris mob invades Tuileries palace

    Paris mob invades Tuileries palace

  • Royal Family confined to Tuileries

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    Radical

    Radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794

  • Committee of Public Safety is created

  • Louis XVI beheaded

  • Marie Antoinette is beheaded

  • Reign of Terror

    Reign of Terror

  • Robespierre is beheaded

  • Directory takes power

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    Reaction

    Reactionary denoted people who idealized feudalism and the pre-modern era before the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution when economies were mostly agrarian.
  • Napoleon becomes 1st Consul

    Napoleon becomes 1st Consul

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    Age of Napoleon

    Napoleon Bonaparte was a french leader that was born in 1769 on the French island of Corsica. At age 9 Napoleon was sent to the military and by age 20 he was a lieutenant in the French Revolution.

  • Concordat with the Catholic Church

  • Napoleon invades Egypt

  • Napoleon named Consul for life

  • Napoleonic Code adopted

  • Napoleon becomes Emperor

  • Battle of Austerlitz

  • Battle of Trafalgar

    Battle of Trafalgar

  • Napoleon invades Russia

  • Battle of Leipzig

  • Napoleon named Consul for life

  • 27. Napoleon returns from Elba

  • Napoleon invades Spain

    Napoleon invades Spain

  • Napoleon abdicates the thrown & Louis

  • Napoleon exiled to St. Helena

  • Battle of Waterloo

    Battle of Waterloo

  • Napoleon dies

    Napoleon dies