French Revolution By kempkes.kal 1789 Great fear sweeps France 1789 Estates-General meets 1789 National Assembly is formed 1789 Citizens attack Paris prisons 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man issued 1789 Royal family confined to Tuileries Period: 1789 to 1792 Moderate Phase 1790 Civil Constitution of the Clergy adopted 1791 Constitution creates unlimited monarchy 1791 Royal family attempts to flee France 1792 Paris mob invades Tuileries palace 1792 Citizens attack Paris prisons 1792 France becomes a republic 1792 Louis XVI beheaded Period: 1792 to 1794 Radical Phase 1793 Marie Antoinette is beheaded 1793 Committee of Public Safety is created 1793 Reign of Terror 1794 Robespierre is beheaded Period: 1794 to 1799 Reaction Phase 1795 Third Constitution is adopted. 1795 Directory takes power 1798 Poor women of Paris march on Versallies 1798 Napoleon leads invasion of Egypt 1799 Napoleon becomes First Consul Period: 1799 to 1815 Age of Napoleon 1801 Concordat with Catholic Church 1802 Napoleon named consul for life 1804 Citizens storm the Bastille 1804 Napoleon becomes emperor 1804 Napoleonic Code adopted 1805 Battles of Austerlitz and Trafalgar 1808 Napoleon's army invades Spain 1812 Napoleon invades Russia, retreats 1814 Napoleon abdicates, Louis XVIII takes throne 1815 Napoleon returned from Elba exile 1815 Battle of Waterloo 1815 Napoleon is sent into exile, St. Helena 1821 Napoleon dies
