French Revolution

By Mesha101
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    Absolutism and The French Revolution

    Absolutism was where you had 1 ruler and the people didn’t like that , which led up to the French Revolution .

  • Enlightenment

    The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, which is considered as the "Century of Philosophy".

  • The birth of Napoleon

    Napoleon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars. He was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814 and again briefly in 1815 during the Hundred Days.

  • King Louis Moved The Capital

    The court of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the French Revolution.

  • The Bastille Is Stormed

    peasants Stormed The bastille Prison in search of weapons.

  • Declaration Of The rights of Man

    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. The Declaration was drafted by the Abbé Sieyès and the Marquis de Lafayette, in consultation with Thomas Jefferson.

  • Women’s march of Versailles

    The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.

  • Reign Of Terror

    The Reign of Terror, or The Terror, is the label given by most historians to a period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established.
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    Napoleon As Emperor

    On May 18, 1804, Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. ... Napoleon next moved to recreate an aristocracy, a long French tradition that had been eliminated by the Revolution. In 1808, Napoleon started granting titles of nobility to people who served him particularly well.

  • Invasion Of Russia

    The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War Of 1812 . Napoleon hoped the battle would win the war for him, but the Russian army slipped away and continued the retreat, leaving Smolensk to burn.

  • Exiled

    Exiled to the island of Elba, he escaped to France in early 1815 and raised a new Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success before its crushing defeat at Waterloo against an allied force under Wellington on June 18, 1815. Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa.

  • Battle of Waterloo

    The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.