French Revolution

By Alexis Postell
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    French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Year War.
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    Marie Antoinette

    Marie was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was the penultimate child of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor.
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    Napoleon Bonaparte

    Napoleon served as an artillery officer in the French army. Napoleon abdicated the throne.
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    Maximillian Robespierre

    Maximillian Robespierre was a French lawyer and politician. He was best known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.

  • Tennis Court Oath

    The members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath.

  • Storming of the Bastille

    Bastille was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule.

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens

    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, had been set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789.

  • Women's March on Versailles

    The Women's March on Versailles was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
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    Louis XVI

    Louis was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was referred to Citizen Louis Capet during the final weeks of his life.

  • Reign of Terror

    The Reign of Terror is the label given by some historians to a period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established.

  • The End of the Revolution

    Ending the French Revolution King Louis arrived in time to lead a coup against the Directory in 1799, eventually stepping up and naming himself “first consul" effectively, the leader of France. With Napoleon at the helm, the Revolution ended, and France entered a fifteen-year period of military rule.

  • Battle of Trafalgar

    The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleet of the French and Spanish Navies.

  • Battle of Austerlitz

    The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars.

  • French invasion of Russia

    The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian Campaign,began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armee.

  • Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to Elba

    The Allies invaded France an captured Paris in the spring of 1814, forcing Napoleon to abdicate in April,

  • Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to St. Helena

    The British government selected Saint Helena as the place of detention for Napoleon Bonaparte.

  • Battle of Waterloo

    The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18, June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day.