French resolution timeline

  • May 5, 1789 meeting with the Estates-General

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    born of an idea of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed by the assembly of the Estates General to draft a new Constitution
  • tennis court oath

    There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.
  • storming of bastile

    a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob
  • Women's March on Versailles

    The Women's March on Versailles was a riot that took place during this first stage of the French Revolution
  • Execution of King Louis XVI

    He was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793.
  • Reign of Terror

    which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary
  • Maximillian Robespierre's execution

    that followed, in which about 1,400 persons were executed, contributed to the fall of Robespierre on July 27
  • Napoleonic Code is established

    the resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era.
  • Napoleon Crowns himself emperor

    Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris.
  • Peninsular War

    the British Army fought a war in the Iberian Peninsula against the invading forces of Napoleon's France
  • Napoleon and his men march on Russia

    invading Russia from present-day Poland. The result was a disaster for the French. The Russian army refused to engage
  • Napoleon is exiled to Elba

    an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea just 10 miles from the Italian mainland
  • Napoleon dies