French Revolution/ Age of Napoleon

By Caden Hagler

  • June 20, 1789 Tennis court of oath

    act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French nation

  • July 14, 1789 Storming of the Bastille

    the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.

  • August 26, 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man

    a human civil rights document from the French Revolution
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    October 5-7, 1789 Women's March on Versailles

    one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution

  • January 21, 1793 Execution of King Louis XVI

    The execution of Louis XVI by guillotine
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    September 5, 1793, to July 27, 1794 Reign of Terror

    a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place

  • July 28, 1794 Maximillian Robespierre's execution

    He was executed, along with many of his supporters, by guillotine

  • March 21, 1804

    most countries of continental Europe and Latin America.

  • May 18, 1804 Napoleon Crowns himself emperor

    he placed the crown on his own head, and then crowned Josephine Empress.
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    May 2, 1808 to April 17, 1814 Peninsular War

    was the military conflict fought by Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal against the invading and occupying forces of France for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars

  • June 24, 1812

    Grande Armée, led by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Neman River, invading Russia from present-day Poland.

  • April 11, 1814

    Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.

  • May 5, 1821 Napoleon died

    from stomach cancer

  • May 5, 1889 meeting with Estates-Government

    Meeting with all 3 heads of Estates