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Meeting of the Estates General
King Louis XVI need to solve the financial crisis of his monarchy -
Fall of the Bastille
Place: Paris, France.
Characters: Marquis de Launay, King Louis XVI, Jacques Necker.
Groups involved: Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops.
The Marquis de la Fayette took up command of the National Guard at Paris, Jean-Sylvain Bailly – leader of the Third Estate and instigator of the Tennis Court Oath – became the city's mayor under a new governmental structure known as the Commune de Paris. The king announced that he would recall Necker and return from Versailles to Paris. -
Start of The French Revolution
Place: France
Characters: King Louis XVI,Mapoleon Bonaparte,Maximilien de Robespierre, Georges Danton.
Social stress from a large population as well as the intrusion of capitalism into everyday life and the consequent social disparities. An economy in crisis following France's involvement in the American Revolution as well as two decades of poor cereal harvest and drought, leading to an explosion in the price of bread,started the revolution. -
March on Versailles
People in Paris was hungry , unemployed and restless and in october they make a big crowd, they wanted to bring back the royal Family from the Palace of Versailles to Paris to “live among the people” -
Declaration of the Republic and the Trial of Louis
Following the arrests of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the Legislative Assembly disbanded and replaced itself with a new political body named the National Convention. For their first act of the latter was to declare France as a republic 1792. Meanwhile, Louis was charged with treason and was son decapetaded for many of his crimes -
Reign of terror
Place: France
Characters: Robespierre, George-Jacques Danton, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, Collot d'Herbois.
Groups involved: committe of public safety, The Jacobins.
When French military success began in June, 1794, popular discontent with the brutal measures at home grew evident. The members of the National Convention joined forces with Robespierre's enemies on the committees. -
Napoleon Invades
Napoleon invades Syria towards the end of his Egyptian Campaign -
Directory and the Rise of Napoleon
In 1799 his army collaborated in a coup d’état to overthrow the Directory and establish the Consulate. By 1800 Napoleon had become the First Consul of France, and was now in a position of total power. -
End of The French Revolution
-Led to the dissolution of the French monarchy.
-The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte and the expansion of French colonialism
-The revolution led to a new calendar and other small changes. -
The Napoleonic Code was Promulgated
It was also known as the Civil Code, it sought to abolish the privileges and inequelities ambodied in the consums of the Ancien Régimen. It was established under Napoleón I. -
Prussia declares war
Prussia declares war on France, leading to two battles of Prusso-Russian forces against French forces, namely the Battle of Lutzen and Bautzen, both in May of 1813. -
Battle of Leipzig
Place: Leipzig, Saxony.
Characters: Napoleon, Marshal Blucher, Jean-Baptiste, Marshal Poniatowski.
Groups involved: armies of Russians, Prussians, Swedes, and Austrians .
Was the biggest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, also known as the Battle of Nations. Napoleon intended to divide his opponents and attack them one by one. -
Treaty of Chaumont
Treaty of Chaumont-the four powers that defeated Napoleon (Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia) all agreed to ally for 20 years, promising to fight together to stop France if it ever got too powerful again. -
Napoleon arrives at Elba
Place: island of elba in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Characters: Napoleon.
Groups involved: Austrian and French guards.
Napoleon managed to sneak past his guards and somehow escape from Elba, slip past interception by a British ship, and return to France. -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the war between France and the Sixth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars (It was signed by France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Russia, Austria, and Prussia) -
Napoleon Dies
Place:Coast of Africa
Napoleon dies on St. Helena.
He died, most likely of stomach cancer, and in 1840 his body was returned to Paris, where it was interred in the Hotel des Invalides.
