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A general meeting of the French estates summoned by King Louis to propose solutions to France's financial problems. This carried on the revolution because the Third estate had to gather in the tennis court, out of fear of royalist conspiracy. -
Members of the Third Estate gathered in the tennis court to take an oath. The oath was to agree not to disband until a new French constitution was created. This showed the growing unrest against Louis XVI. -
The Bastille, a state prison, was attacked by an angry mob. They had stormed the prison to get ammunition and guns. This event showed that the force of people could challenge a monarchy. This gave the people courage to fight against the nobles and the King. -
A fundamental document of the French Revolution that granted civil rights to some commoners, although it excluded many of the French population. It gave rights to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. This inspired the principles to what the people were fighting for in the French Revolution. -
They ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles. It gave the revolutionaries confidence in the power of the people over the king. These events ended the king's independence and signified the change of power and reforms about to overtake France. -
The people convicted King Louis XVI to death by majority. On January 21, he walked to the guillotine and was executed. This led to his wife being convicted of treason and killed nine months later. -
A period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions. This led to the Committee of Public Safety lost its authority, the prisons were emptied, and the French Revolution became decidedly less radical.
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Many of the revolutionaries had enough of Robespierre's tough ruling and turned against him. They arrested him and had him executed by guillotine. This led to the end of the Reign of Terror. -
The Napoleonic Code is the French civil code established under the French Consulate. The Napoleonic Code made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of any individual rights, and reduced the rights of illegitimate children. This resulted in post-revolutionary France. -
Napoleon crowned himself to show that his power didn't depend upon church approval. This led to the establishment of the legitimacy of his position and hereditary rule and also the faith of his supporters. -
The Peninsular War was the war between fought by Spain, UK, and Portugal. They fought against the invading and occupying forces of France. France ended up losing the war and the downfall of Napoleon.
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The Grand Army, led by Napoleon, crossed the Neman River, invading Russia from present-day Poland. This led to Napoleon's first exile, after he failed to conquer Russia. -
After Napoleon's failed attempt at conquering Russia, he was banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. This led to the monarchy being restored under King Louis XVIII. -
Six years after Napoleon was exiled to the island of Saint Helena, he most likely died of stomach cancer. In 1840, his body was returned to Paris. His death prompted a sense of pride of being French, along with feelings of bitterness.