French Revolution

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  • Storming of Bastille

    when French people attacked a prison in Paris, marking the start of the French Revolution

  • Louis XVI calls Estates General

  • Tennis Coarth Oalth

    They are members of the 3rd estate agreed not to separate

  • Declaration of the rights of man & the citizen

    a documentation of the french revolution that brings in the rights of all individuals

  • Louis XVI Brought to Paris

    ended the king’s independent authority

  • Execution of Louis XVI

    former King of France since the abolition of the monarchy

  • Committee of Public Safety created

    to protect the french revolution from internal and external threats

  • The fall of the Girondins

    a faction within the French Revolution

  • The Reign of Terror

    was a period of violence during the French Revolution

  • The Death of Marat

    painting by Jacques-Louis David the artist's friend and murdered by a French revolutionary leader

  • Execution of Marie Ashe

    was executed by guillotine after being convicted

  • Execution of Dantonists

    they were executed by guillotine and being accused

  • Thermidorian Reaction

    a response to Robespierre’s increasing dictatorship and the excesses of the Reign of Terror

  • Robespierre executed

    a prominent figure of the French Revolution, was arrested and executed

  • Constitution of the Year III

    established the French Directory a five-member executive body

  • Napoleon saves the Directory

    helped save the Directory by suppressing a royalist uprising in Paris

  • Fall of the Directory

    with the Coup of 18 Brumaire, led by Napoleon Bonaparte

  • Napoleon becomes First Consul

    overthrowing the French Directory and establishing the Consulate

  • Napoleonic Code

    establishing principles like equality before the law, property rights, and freedom of religion

  • Napoleon crowns himself emperor

    symbolic act signifying his rejection of papal authority and the establishment of the first french empire.

  • Napoleon defeated in Russia

    they marked the collapse of his Russian campaign.

  • Napoleon invades Russia

    Napoleon invaded Russia with a large army, but after a series of retreats and a major battle, he occupied the capital only to face abandonment

  • Monarchy Restored

    the return of the Bourbon monarchy in France after the fall of Napoleon.

  • Napoleon exiled to Elba

    Napoleon was exiled to Elba, where he retained the title of emperor, governed the island

  • Napoleon escapes Elba

    Napoleon escaped from Elba with 1,100 troops, setting sail for France to reclaim power