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Louis XVI met the estates general in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, the king made a speech and the meeting was convened soon after.
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The third estate was locked out of every room in Versailles, so they ran through the halls of Versailles looking for a room with the capacity to fit the third estate, they found a room that was the cities tennis court and held that room till their demands were met.
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The people of Paris were determined to get gunpowder for their guns that they had taken from the basement of the hospital. The Bastille was considered a symbol of authority, when taken over they released the 7 prisoners inside.
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King Louis XVI sent troops to surround the city of Paris. The people got scared and started to ransack nobilities houses, sometimes killing the nobles or their families.
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When Louis XVI is forced to move back to Paris the people force him to sign the Declaration of the Rights of Man. This document made all man socially and politically equal and righted man to liberty property and security.
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Louis threw a party in Versailles and rumors spread through the streets of Paris that King Louis stepped on the Flag of France. The women distraught with rising bread prices and rumors of King Louis lead a march on Versailles, they force the royal family to move to Paris.
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King Louis XVI and his wife Marie try to flee Paris and escape the citizens. They succeed only to be brought back by jeering crowds right into Paris once again.
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The church was nationalized and the clergy was brought under government control and was elected by all citizens.
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The Brunswick Manifesto was a proclamation put out by Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick. It said that if the Royal family were to be harmed then the citizens or Paris would also be harmed. This led to the war between revolutionary France and the Anti-Revolutionary France
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The citizens stormed the royal families quarters and demanded a convention to replace the legislative. The legislative was replaced with the National Convention.
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Rumors went through the streets of Paris that said over 300 prisoners were going to stage an uprising. The people of France stormed the prisons and killed 1,600 prisoners.
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The second to last stage of the revolution. It was a system of government where 5 directors held executi7ve power in France.
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An agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII it brought back most the Church’s civil status.
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America bought 828,000 acres of land that the French owned in the territory of Louisiana for 15 million dollars.
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This code allowed for practice of any religion and stated that government positions should go to the most qualified.
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Napoleon was France’s political and military leader in the later stages of the French Revolution.
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Napoleon became emperor of France.
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A navy battle fought between the British and the combined efforts of the French and Spanish. The British took the seas with the help of Admiral Lord Nelson.
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A shutdown of British trade.
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The Peninsular War was fought between France and the forces of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars
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France invaded Russia and Russia won decisively triggering a major shift in European politics.
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Napoleon I was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication
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Napoleon’s army was defeated by the allied forces of the seventh coalition.
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Napoleon is again exiled, but this time to St. Helena so he could not return located in the South-Atlantic Ocean.