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King Louis XVI called Estates-General meeting, June 17 Third Estate breaks away from Estates-General, establishes itself as National Assembly
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The National Assembly swept away feudal privileges of the first and second estate making all citizens equal.
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A mob of people meet in the tennis court at the wouldnt leave until the king signed the new constitution.
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Poeple wanted gun powder for their weponds and went to the King for help,
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When rumors circulated through the countryside and from town to town that the nobles were paying men to terrorize the peasants.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man was created so that all social classes have equal rights and freedom.
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Women got tired of the raising coast on bread, Many women couldnt afford to feed their family. So a mob of them gathered outside of Versailles to complain to the King
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King Louis wanted help from a foreign army so he and his wife can get control of their country again. They got cought and the people sent them back to Paris
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The creation of a consitutional monarchy. Then national convention legislative body, the King and the Ministers made up the executive branch and the judicial branch was independent from the other two.
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When Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, commander of the Allied Army
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towards the end of the terror a lot of the people who died were considered Robespierre's enemies
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Napoleon takes over France as a dictator.
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The new constitution created the Directoire and the first bicameral legislature in France.
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Napoleon signed an agreement with Pope Pius VII reestablishing the Church in France
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the United States purchased from France the Louisiana Territory,
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The Code, with its stress on clearly written and accessible law, was a major step in replacing the previous feudal laws.
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Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris.
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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.
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Napoleon Bonaparte issued the Berlin decrees which marked the start of what became to be known as the Continental System.
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The 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.
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The Freanch invated Russia, This was the turing point to the Patriotic Wars
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Napoleon dethroned Emperor left France for the isle of Elba, where he was exiled under the terms of the Treaty of Fontainebleau
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The European powers were not going to take any chances on Napoleon's possible return. They exiled Napoleon to the island of St. Helena - a barren, wind-swept rock located in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought 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,
