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French Rebelution
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Convening the Estates General
Called to propose the government's financal problems. -
Tennis Court Oath
The third estate stayed in a tennis court until changes were made. -
Storming of the Bastille
The storming of the Bastille and the subsequent Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was the third event of this opening stage of the revolution. -
Great Fear
Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring, and the grain supplies were now guarded by local militias as rumors that bands of armed men were roaming the countryside. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Influenced by the doctrine of "natural right" -
Women’s march to Versailles
Women rioting over high price of scarce bread. -
Louis and Marie’s flight to Varennes
Their destination was the fortress at Montmédy in northeastern France, a Royalist stronghold from which the king hoped to start a military campaign which would restore his rule. They were only able to make it as far as the small town of Varennes. -
Constitution of 1791
The Constitution followed the lines preferred among reformists at that time: the creation of a French constitutional monarchy. -
Brunswick Manifesto
The Brunswick Manifesto threatened that if the French royal family were harmed, then French civilians would be harmed. -
National Convention
It held executive power in France during the first years of the French First Republic. -
Reign of Terror
The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris),and another 25,000 in summary executions across France. -
Directory
New form of government formed by the natinal convention. -
Napoleon Bonaparte takes over
In 1800, Bonaparte and his troops crossed the Alps into Italy, where French forces had been almost completely driven out by the Austrians whilst he was in Egypt. -
Concordat of 1801
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly had taken Church properties and issued the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which made the Church a department of the State, removing it from the authority of the Pope. -
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase Treaty was signed by Robert Livingston, James Monroe, and Barbé Marbois in Paris. Jefferson announced the treaty to the American people on July 4. -
Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic Code was not the first legal code to be established in a European country with a civil legal system. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
In January 1804, his police uncovered an assassination plot against him which involved Moreau and which was ostensibly sponsored by the Bourbon former rulers of France. -
Battle of Trafalgar
The battle was the most decisive British naval victory of the war. Twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory defeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships of the line under French Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve off the south-west coast of Spain, just west of Cape Trafalgar. -
Peninsular War
The French occupation destroyed the Spanish administration, which fragmented into quarrelling provincial juntas. -
Invasion of Russia
At nearly half a million strong, the Grande Armée marched through Western Russia, winning a number of relatively minor engagements and a major battle at Smolensk. -
Continental System
Its effect on the UK and on British trade is uncertain, but thought to be much less harmful than on the continental European states; food imports in Britain dropped and the price of staple foods rose. -
Exile to Elba
He was allowed to keep a personal guard of six hundred men. Although he was nominally sovereign of Elba, the island was patrolled by the British Navy. -
Battle of Waterloo
An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. -
Exile to St. Helena
They exiled him to the island of St. Helena - a barren, wind-swept rock located in the South Atlantic Ocean.
