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French Revolution

By TrevorLeForge

  • Estates-General meets

  • Period: to

    Moderate Phase

  • National Assembly formed

  • Citizens storm the Bastille

  • Citizens attack Paris prisons

  • Great Fear sweeps France

  • Declaration of the Rights of Men issued

  • Poor women of Paris march on Versailles

  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy adopted

  • Constitution creates limited monarchy

  • Royal Family attempts to flee France

  • Royal Family confined to Tuileries

  • Paris mob invades Tuileries palace

  • France becomes a republic

  • Period: to

    Radical Phase

  • King Louis XVI beheaded

  • Committee of Public Safety is created

  • Start of Reign of Terror

  • Queen Marie Antoinette beheaded

  • End of Reign of Terror

  • Robespierre is beheaded

  • Period: to

    Reactionary phase

  • Third Constitution is adopted

  • Directory takes power

  • Napoleon leads invasion of Egypt

  • Period: to

    Napoleonic Phase

  • Napoleon becomes First Consul

  • Concordat with the Catolic Church

  • Napoleon named consul for life

  • Napoleonic code adopted

  • Napoleon becomes emporer

    Im not 100% sure of the date (other than the year), but I think its late 1804.

  • Battle at Trafalgar

  • Battle of Austerlitz

  • Napoleons army invades Spain

  • Napoleon invades Russia, retreats

  • Napoleon abdicates, Louis XVIII takes throne

  • Napoleon returns from Elba exile

  • Battle of Waterloo

  • Napoleon sent into exile, St. Helena

  • Napoleon dies

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