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The Estates General allowed all 3 estates to vote together in the same room.
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The National Assembly pledged not to leave until a new constitution was written up.
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The people of the revolution stormed the Bastille, killed guards, and paraded around the streets with chopped off heads on pikes.
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There were rumors that nobles were paying men to terrorize the peasants, so the peasants broke into nobles homes and destroyed legal papers or burned down their homes.
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Once the revolutionary spirit seized control of the people of Paris, people in surrounding areas began to demand cheaper bread and suspension of feudla dues
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Declared freedom of speech, equal justice, and freedom of religion
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Women ransacked weapons from the city armory and rioted in Versailles over the high prices, and scarcity of bread.
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King Louis and his wife tried to escape Paris but were unsuccessful
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Very first written constitution of France. This is what started the creation of a French constitutional monarchy.
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The manifesto promised that if the French Royal family was not harmed, then the Allies would not harm French civilians or loot
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the National Convention or Convention, in France, comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly which sat from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795
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THe Constitution of 1795 is ratified
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In 1802, Napoleon forced a peace settlement with Britain, Austria, and Russia. He was a consol in an established government.
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Was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII that solidified the Roman Catholic church as the majority church of France.
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Louisiana was purchased for fifteen million dollars and became American
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The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified
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This was a sea battle fought by the Brittish Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and the Spanish Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Napoleon ordered French ships to attack any British Vessel in sight.
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A war between France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for the control of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Major turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. It reduced the French and allied invasian forces to a fraction of their initial strength.
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Napoleon Bonaparte resigns the throne and is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.
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The French Empire is defeated by the Seventh Coalition and a Prussian Army. The Battle of Waterloo puts an end to the tyrant rule of Napoleon as the emperor of France.
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Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to here after losing the Battle of Waterloo
