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French Revolution
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Convening the Estates General
Louis XVI proposed to tax the nobility so he had to call the Estates General to approve the new tax. This was the first meeting in 175 years. -
Tennis Court Oath
This is when the third estate was fed up with not getting a say in anything. They all pledged to not leave until a new constitution was made. -
Storming of the Bastille
People stormed the Bastille and killed some guards and paraded around the streets with their heads on pikes. -
The Great Fear
Rumors circulated through the countryside from town to town that the nobles were paying men to terrorize the peasants. They broke into noble’s homes and destroyed legal papers that bound them to pay feudal dues or even burned down the homes. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
They pass the Declaration of the Rights of Man, which said “men are born and remain free and equal in rights.” Also guaranteed freedom of speech, equal justice, and freedom of religion. But, this did not count for women. -
Women’s march to Versailles
Women had rioted over the price of bread and marched to Versailles and demanded that Louis and Marie return to Pairs. Louis and Marie never again saw Versailles. -
Louis and Marie’s flight to Varennes
Louis and Marie tried to escape France in 1791, but were caught and turned over to the authorities. -
The Constitution of 1791
King reluctantly approved a new constitution where France’s government became a Limited Constitutional Monarchy, where King’s held very little power. -
Brunswick Manifesto
a proclamation issued by Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, commander of the Allied Army -
National Convention
The National Convention took office in Sept. 1792 and quickly abolished the monarchy and declared France a Republic where every male citizen could vote, no women though. -
The Terror or Reign of Terror
Robespierre lead the Committee of Public Safety in 1793 and ruled France for the next year as a dictator this time came to known as the Reign of Terror. -
Directory
was a body of five Directors that held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate -
Napoleon Bonaparte takes over
was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution. -
Concordat of 1801
was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII -
Napolenonic Code
is the French civil code, established under Napoléon I in 1804. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress -
Louisiana Purchase
was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana -
Battle of Trafalgar
was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars -
Continental System
was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars -
Peninsular War
was a war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars -
Invasion of Russia
was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. It reduced the French and allied invasion forces to a tiny fraction of their initial strength and triggered a major shift in European politics as it dramatically weakened French hegemony in Europe -
Exile to Elba
French emperor Napoleon I was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication in 1814 and arrived at Portoferraio on May 3, 1814 to begin his exile there. He was allowed to keep a personal guard of six hundred men -
Battle of Waterloo
near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. 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
Napoleon was imprisoned and then exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, 1,870 km from the west coast of Africa. In his first two months there, he lived in a pavilion on the Briars estate, which belonged to a William Balcombe
