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French Revolution
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Convening of the Estates General
Louis XVI summons Estates-General for its first meeting in 175 years. He called it because of the economy. -
Tennis Court Oath
National Assembly members take Tennis Court Oath, pledging to create new constitution. -
Storming of the Bastille
Mob of Parisian citizens storms Bastille prison and confiscates weapons from the Bastille. This is France's 4th of July -
The Great Fear
The time when the common folk thought that the nobles were out to get them, so they armed themselves by storming the Bastille. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
This document said that men are born and remain free and equal in rights. It also guaranteed freedom of speech, equal justice, and freedom of religion. -
Women's Narch on Versalles
Women marched because of the soaring bread prices, they stormed the palace, killed the gaurds, and captured the king, after he promised them bread then went back on his word. -
Luois and Marie's Flight to Varnnes
Luois and Marie attempt to flee France, but are cought, and eventually executed. -
Constituion of 1791
France’s government became a Limited Constitutional Monarchy, where King’s held very little power. It also created the Legislative Assembly which had the power to create laws. Later it would declare France a Republic on the 22nd. -
Brunswick Manifesto
The duke of Brunswick issued this stating that nobody should harm the royal family or they would destory Paris. -
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. -
Riegn of Terror
Robespierre led 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 put in favor of the National Convention and was a five man government in which they all rule the country. -
Napoleon Bonaparte takes power
He ousted the Directory by military means, and took control of France as thier leader. -
Concordat of 1801
Napoleon made a deal with Pope Pius VII that made the Catholic Church and majority Church in France, and said that they would stay out of each others buisness. -
Louisiana Purchase
Napoleon Bonaparte and Thomas Jefferson made a deal giving the U.S about 828,000 miles of land. -
Napoleonic Code approved
This code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
He declares that he is the new emperor of France. -
Battle of Trafalgar
Battle fought by French and British with Spanish naval fleets. The British's royal navy won the battle. -
Continental System
This was a trade embargo against the British whom they were fighting. -
Peninsular War
Was a war between France and the combined forces of Spain, Portugal, and the U.K. -
Invasion of Russia
THe French got kicked out of Russia, and couldn't win agianst them, -
Napoleon's Exile to Elba
After the coilition captured Paris, in thier war of liberation, they through Napoleon off the throne and forced him to Elba. -
Battle of Waterloo
A battle in which the French lost to the British and a host of other countries. This lead to the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Napoleon's exile to St. Helena, and relative peace in Europe. -
Exile to St. Helena
Napoleon abdicated on June 22nd 1815, tried to go to the U.S. but was foiled and then sent to St. Helena with only a few people.
