French Revolution

By laneglantz

  • National assembly is formed

    only lasted for a month

  • Estates Generals meet

    involved all classes of the French people

  • Citizens storm the Bastille

    They didn't like the royal authority

  • Great fear sweeps France

    Was a wave of peasant riots and violence

  • Poor women of pairs march on Versailles

    women that wanted money marched
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    moderate phase

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    Concordat with Catholic Church

    The people created a treaty with the church
  • The National Assembly is formed

    The National Assembly is formed

    The Third Estate defied the king.
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    French Revolution

  • Civil Constitution of clergy is adopted

    Civil Constitution of clergy is adopted

    adopted the civil constitution

  • Royal family tried to flee France

    Royal family wanted to leave

  • Paris mob invades Tuileries palace

    Tuileries palace gets invaded

  • Citizens attack Paris prisons

    the citizens feared counter revolutionists would rise up from the prisons

  • France becomes a republic

    The French Republic is formed
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    Radical phase

  • King Louis XVI beheaded

  • The Committee of Public Safety is created

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    Reign of Terror

  • Robespierre is beheaded

  • The Third Constitution is adopted

  • French Directory takes power

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    Reaction phase

  • Napoleon invades Egypt

  • Napoleon becomes first consul

    Napoleon crowns himself first consul
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    Age of Napoleon phase

  • Concordat with Catholic Church

  • Napoleon becomes first consul for life

    a constitutional amendment made Napoleon the first consul for life

  • Napoleonic code is adopted

  • Battle of Austerlitz and Trafalgar

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    Napoleon invades Spain

  • Napoleon returns from Elba exile

  • Battle of Waterloo

  • Napoleon sent to exile on St. Helena

  • Napoleon dies