French Revolution

By lukecamper

  • Austria and Prussia issue a declatation

    Austria and Prussia issue a declaration warning against harming the French monarchs and hint that any such action would provoke war.

  • France in debt

    King Louis XIVI tries tto tax the Second Estate but nobles refuse to pay

  • King Louis XVI calls for Estate Generals

    King Louis XVI call for Estate general to meet the following spring after a rough winter.

  • First meeting of the Estate Generals.

    First time the Estate Generals meet in approimately 175 years.

  • French Revolution

    The French Revoluion begins.

  • Third Estate

    The Third Estate General themselves the National Assembly: National Assembly swears the Tennis Court Oath.

  • Bastille

    The Storming of the Bastille

  • National Assembly

    National Assemembly adpots the Declatation of the Rights of Man of the Citizen.

  • King and Queens flee to Paris

    King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette flee Paris in digueses, but are caught.

  • Mob storms Tuileries Palace

    Mob storms Tuileries palace and thrown Marie Antoinette and her children in prison

  • National Convention

    National Convention declares that France will be a republic and not a constitutional monarchy.

  • Execution of King Louis XVI

    King Louis XVI is executed by gullotine

  • Reign of Terror

    The Reign of Terror is unleashed by the Committiee of Public Saftey; Led by Maxmilien Robespierre

  • Execution of Robespierre and supporters

    Robespierre and his supporters are executed; Reign of Terror is over.

  • Napoleon faced off mob

    Napoleon faced off against a mob of royalists trying to regain power in Paris.

  • National Convention

    National Convention writes a more restrictive constitution; only male property owner could vote.

  • Napoleon takes controll

    Napoleon takes control of the French Government.

  • End of the French Revolution

    The French Revolution ends

  • Napoleon sells louisiana Territory

    Napoleon sells Louisiana Territory to North America to the United States

  • Saint Domingue

    Saint Domingue declares independence from France, names their ne nation Haiti.

  • Napoleon crowns himself

    Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France after the plebiscite

  • Napoleon invades Spain and Portugal.

    Napoleon invades Spain and Portugal; the king of Spain goes to prison and the king of Portugal flees to Brazil

  • Napoleon attempt to invade Russia

    Napoleon attempts to invade and take over Russia, is forced to leave Moscow

  • Napoleon attempts to take over Russia

    Napoleon attempts to take over Russia

  • Napoleon gets defeated.

    Napoleon defeated in Leipzig