French Revolution

By hl3088

  • Hail causes a crop loss famine breaks out

    Lack of food, esspessially bread

  • Estates general is called to meet in Versailles

    1st and 2nd Estates have 300 representatives; 3rd has 600 reps

  • Bastille Day

    900 people of Paris stormed the Bastille; a bastille is an old fortress used as a prison and aromory

  • National Assembly

    abolished legal privalages of first two estate

  • Declaration of the Rights of Men

    is created

  • Women march

    6-7,000 women march 15 miles, find a way into the castle and beat everyone also kill some guards

  • constitution of 1791

    favored the Bourogeosie

  • A Paris mob attacks the royal palace

  • Napolean becomes a captain

    returns to paris to see SC attack

  • Directory makes Napoleon General of France

    defeats the papal states and Austria

  • Two men try to overthrow the Directory

  • Catholicism is made the majority or main religion

  • Napoleon make himeself consul for life

  • Napoleon declares the republic is over

  • France becomes an empire and Napoleon becomes Emporer

  • Period: to

    Napoleon was master of Europe after defeating Prussia, Austria and Russia

  • Fall of Napoleon

  • Napoleon took 600,00 men to Russia

  • about 40,000 out of the 600,000 make it back to Poland

  • Napoleon is exiled to the island of Ebla

  • Battle of Waterloo

  • Exiled again to St. Helena

  • Napoleon dies of stomach cancer