French Revolution

By kennamartin

  • Directory takes power

  • Royal Family confined to Tuileries

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    Moderate

    A period of relatively moderate reform in the spirit of the Enlightenment, moderate that is, compared with what followed. It was certainly revolutionary in relation to when happened before.

  • Estates General meets

  • National Assembly is formed

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    Great Fear sweeps France

    Great Fear was 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.
  • Citizens storm the Bastille

    Citizens storm the Bastille

  • Citizens attack Paris prison

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • Poor women of Paris march on Versailles

    Poor women of Paris march on Versailles

  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted

  • Constitution creates a limited monarchy

  • Royal Family attempts to flee France

    Royal Family attempts to flee France

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    Radical

    Revolutionaries who plotted the downfall of the king and the rise of the French Republic

  • Paris mob invades Tuileries palace

  • France becomes a Republic

  • Louis XVI beheaded

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    Committee of Public Safety is created

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    Reign of Terror

    A period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions

  • Marie Antoinette is beheaded

  • Robespierre is beheaded

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    Reaction

    Resulted in the fall of Maximilien Robespierre and the collapse of revolutionary fervour and the Reign of Terror in France.
  • Third Constitution is adopted

    Third Constitution is adopted

  • Napoleon invades Egypt

    Napoleon invades Egypt

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    Age of Napoleon

  • Concordat with the Catholic Church

  • Battle of Austerlitz

    Battle of Austerlitz

  • Napoleon becomes 1st Consul-

  • Napoleon named Consul for life

  • Napoleon becomes Emperor-2 December 1804

  • Napoleonic Code

  • Battle of Trafalgar

    Battle of Trafalgar

  • Napoleon invades Spain

    Napoleon invades Spain

  • Napoleon invades Russia-June 24, 1812

  • Napoleon retreats from 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 XVIII takes the thrown

  • Napoleon abdicates the thrown & Louis XVIII takes the thrown

  • Napoleon is exiled to Elba

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    Napoleon returns from Elba

    The Hundred Days War, also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815
  • Battle of Waterloo

    Battle of Waterloo

  • Napoleon exiled to St. Helena

  • Napoleon dies