Lrg 6619 french revolution

French Revolution

By Allison Smith

  • 1787

    1787-
    France is in debt, King Louis XVI calls for the estates but the nobles refuse to pay.
  • 1789

    1789

    1789-
    July 14, 1789 Storming of the Bastille.
    Picture is from google.com
  • 1791

    1791

    1791-
    King Louis XVI and Marie Antionette flee Paris in Disguises, but are caught.
    Picture is from google.com
  • 1792

    1792

    August 1792-
    Mob storms the Tuileries and throws Marie Antionette and her children in Prison.
    Picture is from google.com
  • 1793

    1793

    January 21, 1793-
    King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine.
    Picture is from google.com

  • 1795

    1795-
    Napoleon faced off against a mob of royalists trying to regain power in Paris.

  • 1799

    1799-
    The revolution ends.

  • 1804

    1804-
    Napoleon crowns himself emporer of France after a plebiscite.

  • 1808

    1808-
    Napoleon attempts to invade and take over Russia, is forced to leave Moscow.

  • 1814

    1814-
    Allies enter Paris in triumph and force Napoleon to surrender and is exiled to Elba.

  • 1814

    1814-
    France recognizes Louis XVIII, brother of executed Louis XVI. Napoleon manages to come back to France, Louis XVIII flees to Belgium in fear. Napoleon arrives in Paris on March 20 to cheering crowds, and the hundred days begin.

  • 1815

    1815-
    Allied forces defeat Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo.

  • 1815

    1815-
    Napoleon exiles to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic.

  • 1815

    1815-
    Congress of Vienna meets to redraw the map of Europe.
  • 1821

    1821

    1821-
    Napoleon dies in exile.
    Picture is from google.com