French Revolution

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  • Citizens storm the Bastille

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • Estates General meets

  • Great Fear Sweeps France

  • National Assembly is formed

  • Poor women of Paris march on Versailles

  • Period: to

    Moderate

    This is the phase where the revolution is just beginning.

  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted

  • Constitution creates a limited monarchy

  • Royal Family attempts to flee France

  • Royal Family confined to Tuileries

  • Third Constitution is adopted

  • France becomes a Republic

  • Paris mob invades Tuileries palace

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    Radical

    This phase was an effort to restore the French rule and old government.

  • Committee of Public Safety is created

  • Louis XVI beheaded

  • Marie Antoinette is beheaded

  • Reign of Terror

  • Robespierre is beheaded

  • Directory takes power

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    Reaction

    This is the stage where a counter-revolution that followed the toppling of Maximilien Robespierre.

  • Napoleon invades Egypt

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    Age of Napoleon

    This is the time frame where Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'etat, overthrows the Directory and successfully establishes the French Consulate.

  • Concordat with the Catholic Church

  • Napoleon named Consul for Life

  • Napoleon becomes the 1st Consul

  • Napoleon becomes Emperor

  • Napoleonic Code adopted

  • Battle of Austerlitz

  • Napoleon invades Spain

  • Napoleon invades Russia

  • Battle of Leipzig

  • Battle of Trafalgar

  • Napoleon abdicates the thrown & Louis XVIII takes the thrown

  • Napoleon is exiled to Elba

  • Battle of Waterloo

  • Napoleon exiled to St Helena

  • Napoleon returns from Elba

  • Napoleon dies

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