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Citizens attack Paris Prison
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Citizens storm the Bastille
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
The basic principle of the Declaration was that all “men are born and remain free and equal in rights” (Article 1), which were specified as the rights of liberty, private property, the inviolability of the person, and resistance to oppression -
Great Fear sweeps France
Great Fear, French Grande Peur, (1789) in the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate. -
Royal Family confined to Tuileries
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Poor women of Paris march on Versailles
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National Assembly is formed
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Third Constitution is adopted
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Moderate: 1789-1792
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted
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Constitution creates a limited monarchy
On 3 September 1791, the National Constituent Assembly forced king Louis XVI to accept the French Constitution of 1791, thus turning the absolute monarchy into a constitutional monarchy -
Royal Family attempts to flee France
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France becomes a Republic
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Paris mob invades Tuileries palace
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Committee of Public Safety is created
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Louis XVI beheaded
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Marie Antoinette is beheaded
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Reign of Terror
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Robespierre is beheaded
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Directory takes power
mmediately after the suppression of royalist uprising in Paris, the elections for the new Councils decreed by the new Constitution took place. -
Estates General meets
immediately after the suppression of the royalist uprising in Paris, the elections for the new Councils decreed by the new Constitution took place. -
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Reaction
The Reaction period was revolutions that appeared as popular uprisings, reacting to the unjust taxation of authoritarian rule. -
Napoleon invades Egypt
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Age of Napoleon
The Age of Napoleon was that it began with the Coup of 18 Brumaire that swept Napoleon to power. It then ended with his downfall and exiled to the rocky island of St Helena in the middle of the Atlantic. -
Concordat with the Catholic Church
Napoleon Bonaparte and papal and clerical representatives in both Rome and Paris, defining the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France and ending the breach caused by the church reforms and confiscations enacted during the French Revolution. -
Napoleon becomes 1st Consul
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Napoleon named Consul for life
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Napoleon becomes Emperor
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Napoleonic Code
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Napoleonic Code adopted
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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. -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement 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. -
Napoleon invades Spain
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Napoleon retreats from Russia
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Napoleon invades Russia
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Battle of Leipzig
The Battle of Leipzig contemporaneously called the Battle of Leipsic and later the Battle of the Nations was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813 at Leipzig, Saxony -
Napoleon abdicates the thrown & Louis
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XVIII takes the thrown
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Napoleon is exiled to Elba
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Napoleon exiled to St. Helena
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Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time. -
Napoleon returns from Elba
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Napoleon dies