French Revolution

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    Age of Napoleon

    Napoleon I was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution
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    Moderate

    was a period of relatively moderate reform in the spirit of the Enlightenment, moderate, that is, compared with what followed. It was certainly revolutionary in relation to what went before.
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    Great Fear sweeps France

    Period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the third estate.
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    Great Fear sweeps France

    Period of panic and riot for the peasants of France because of the king and the wealthiest attempt to over throw the poor.
  • Estates General meets

    King Louis XVI summoned the assembly to propose solutions to his government's financial problems
  • National Assembly is formed

    This Assembly called themselves the "National Assembly" since they represented at least 96% of the nation.
  • Citizens storm the Bastille

    The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris.
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution.
  • Poor women of Paris march on Versailles

    Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles
  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted

    a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that caused the immediate subordination of the Catholic Church in France to the French government.
  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted

    a law passed during the French Revolution, that caused the immediate subordination of the Catholic Church in France to the French government.
  • Constitution creates a limited monarchy

    Government in which a king or queen with limited political power rules in combination with a legislative governing body such as a parliament representing the desires and opinions of the people.
  • Royal Family attempts to flee France

    Royal Family attempts to flee France

    Significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris
  • Royal Family confined to Tuileries

    The abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of a republic became an ever-increasing possibility.
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    Radical

    revolutionaries who plotted the downfall of the king and the rise of the French Republic
  • Paris mob invades Tuileries palace

    Armed revolutionaries in Paris, increasingly in conflict with the French monarchy, stormed the Tuileries Palace.
  • Citizens attack Paris prison

    Mass killing of prisoners that took place in Paris
  • France becomes a Republic

    The First Republic following the aftermaths of the Revolution of 1789 and the establishment of the monarchy
  • Louis XVI beheaded

    Convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
  • Committee of Public Safety is created

    One of the crises of the Revolution, when France was beset by foreign and civil war.
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    Reign of Terror

    A period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions.
  • Marie Antoinette is beheaded

    Convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed
  • Robespierre is beheaded

    Robespierre and his followers were arrested while raiding the hótel de Ville in Paris.
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    Reaction

    resulted in the fall of Maximilien Robespierre and the collapse of revolutionary fervour and the Reign of Terror in France.
  • Third Constitution is adopted

    Third Constitution is adopted

    The Constitution of the Year III is the constitution that founded the Directory.
  • Directory takes power

    Directory takes power

    Immediately after the suppression of royalist uprising in Paris, the elections for the new Councils decreed by the new Constitution took place
  • Napoleon invades Egypt

    Napoleon led the French army into Egypt, swiftly conquering Alexandria and Cairo.
  • Concordat with the Catholic Church

    Concordat with the Catholic Church

    Agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, signed on 15 July 1801 in Paris. It remained in effect until 1905.
  • Napoleon named Consul for life

    A new constitution of his own devising legislated a succession to rule for his son
  • Napoleon becomes 1st Consul

    Napoleon proclaimed himself First Consul for Life. A new constitution of his own devising legislated a succession to rule for his son
  • Napoleonic Code

    Branches of law, including commercial and criminal law, and divided civil law into categories of property and family. The Napoleonic Code made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of any individual rights.
  • Napoleonic Code adopted

    French Code Napoléon, French civil code enacted and still extant, with revisions.
  • Napoleonic Code adopted

    It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America.
  • Napoleon becomes Emperor

    Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress
  • Battle of Austerlitz

    One of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars.
  • Battle of Trafalgar

    Between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars.
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    Napoleon invades Spain

    French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain. Which began the Peninsular War.
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    Napoleon invades Russia

    The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led cross the Neman River, invading Russia from present-day Poland.
  • Napoleon retreats from Russia

    Refusing to engage Napoleon’s superior army in a full-scale confrontation, the Russians under General Mikhail Kutuzov burned everything behind them as they retreated deeper and deeper into Russia.
  • Battle of Leipzig

    Defeat for Napoleon, resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland
  • Napoleon is exiled to Elba

    Napoleon offered to step down in favor of his son. When this offer was rejected, he abdicated and was sent to Elba.
  • Napoleon abdicates the thrown & Louis

    Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne.
  • XVIII takes the thrown

    Louis XVIII fled, and a Seventh Coalition declared war on the French Empire, defeated Napoleon again, and again restored Louis XVIII to the French throne.
  • Napoleon returns from Elba

    Marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris
  • Battle of Waterloo

    Marked the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century
  • Napoleon exiled to St. Helena

    Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa.
  • Napoleon dies

    Napoleon Bonaparte dies