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Convening the Estates General
The Estates General was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates General,signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution.signified the first time that French citizens formally stood in opposition to Louis XVI, and the National Assembly's refusal to back down forced the king to make concessions. -
Storming of the Bastille
The storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris on the morning,its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution. -
Great Fear
The Great Fear occurred in France at the start of the French Revolution. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. -
Women’s march to Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. These events effectively ended the independent authority of the king.the march on Versailles proved to be a defining moment of that Revolution. -
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Louis and Marie’s flight to Varennes
Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, their children and closest servants fled Paris in secret, hoping to reach the Luxembourg border and to join the Austrian troops there. -
Constitution of 1791
The French Constitution of 1791 was the very first written Constitution of France. It was an important result of the French Revolution and adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen as its introduction. -
Brunswick Manifesto
The Brunswick Manifesto was a measure intended to intimidate Paris, but rather helped further spur the increasingly radical French Revolution and finally led to the war between revolutionary France and counter-revolutionary monarchies. -
National Convention
During the French Revolution, the National Convention, in France, comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly. It held executive power in France during the first years of the French First Republic. -
The Terror or Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terroralso was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of enemies of the revolution. -
French Directory
The Directory was a body of five Directors that held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate. The period of this regime, commonly known as the Directory era, constitutes the second to last stage of the French Revolution. -
Napoleon Bonaparte takes over
Napoleon Bonaparte takes over is he staged acoup of 18 Brumaire and installed himself as First Consul. -
Concordat of 1801
The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, signed on 15 July 1801. It solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and brought back most of its civil status. -
Louisiana Purchase
the United States purchased from France the Louisiana Territory. -
Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic Code is the French civil code, It was the first modern legal code to be adopted with a pan-European scope and it strongly influenced the law of many of the countries formed during and after the Napoleonic Wars. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
After he take over the french,five years later the French Senate proclaimed him emperor. In the first decade of the 19th century, the French Empire under Napoleon engaged in a series of conflicts the Napoleonic Wars involving every major European power. -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar as 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.The battle was the most decisive British naval victory of the war. -
Continental System
The 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. It was a large-scale embargo against British trade, -
Peninsular War
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. -
- Invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia of 1812 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
Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled by the Allied governments to Elba following his abdication at Fontainebleau and landed on the island. -
Battle of Waterloo
An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, The defeat at Waterloo put an end to Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French and marked the end of his Hundred Days return from exile. -
Exile to St. Helena
Napoleon spent the last six years of his life in confinement by the British on the island of Saint Helena.