French Revolution

By Regansavely

  • John Locke wrote in the enlightenment

    John Locke wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

  • Voltaire wrote in the enlightenment

    Voltaire is most notably known for writing "Candide," a satirical novella, as well as "Lettres philosophiques"

  • Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote in the enlightenment

    He wrote the "social contract"

  • Napoleon was born

    Napoleon was born. He was born at Ajaccoio France

  • Enlightenment began

    The ideas of the Enlightenment played a major role in inspiring the French Revolution

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

    This document, inspired by Enlightenment principles, outlined fundamental rights like liberty, equality, and fraternity, establishing a new political order based on citizen rights.

  • The Estates-General meet at Versailles

    All three estates are there

  • Third Estate declares themselves the National Assembly

    The dispute over votes in the Estates-General leads deputies of the Third Estate to declare themselves the National Assembly. Along with some members of the clergy, they threaten to proceed without the other two estates.

  • Storming of the Bastille

    one of the opening events of the French Revolution.
  • Amid the Great Fear of July 1789

    Amid the Great Fear of July 1789

    when Parisians were panicked about the possibility of the aristocracy overthrowing the Third Estate, a large crowd seizes the Bastille prison, which is a symbol of royal tyranny.
  • The guillotine was made

    The guillotine was made

    It was know as the national razor

  • France declares war on Austria

    For the next seven years, the hostilities known as the French Revolutionary wars continue between France and various European powers.

  • A new assembly

    the National Convention, meets, abolishes the monarchy, and establishes a republic.

  • The battle of Valmy

    Valmy was one of history's decisive battles: a Prussian march on Paris to restore the French monarchy was halted, and the French Revolution was saved.

  • Louis XVI was executed

    He was guilty of treason

  • The siege of Toulon

    military engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars, in which the young artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte won his first military reputation by forcing the withdrawal of the Anglo-Spanish fleet that was occupying the city of Toulon and its forts.

  • The battle of Fleurus

    Fleurus ensured French ascendency for the rest of the war, leading to France's conquest of Belgium and to the destruction of the Dutch Republic.

  • Robespierre is over thrown

    He was killed the next day
  • the Battle of the Pyramids

    the Battle of the Pyramids

  • The battle of the Nile

    a month after the landing of French troops in Egypt at Alexandria, the French fleet was completely destroyed by the British Navy in Aboukir Bay

  • Napoleon went into power

    He became the leader of the french revolution. Leading the french into battle

  • The battle of Marengo

  • Napoleon became emperor of France

    He declared himself the emperor of France.

  • Napoleon was exiled

    He was exiled to Elba after the coalition invaded France

  • Napoleon died

    Napoleon died from cancer. He died on the island he was banished to