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Convening the estates General
The Estates general meets for the first time in over 100 years -
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French Revolution Timeline
this is when the French were freed from their king and monarchy :) -
Tennis Court Oath
The third estate gathers in a "tennis court" pledging that they will not leave until they have a new constitution. -
Storming of Bastille
The French people broke into this prison to find gun powder. They killed the governor and paraded his head on a pike. Then they tore the building apart! -
Great Fear
Peasants started to arm themselves and raide manors. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
This document states the individual and collective rights of the French. -
Women's March to Versailles
Women marched to Versailles to demand bread from the king and queen, When they didn't get any they broke into the palace. They forced the king and queen to come back to Paris with them. -
- Louis and Marie’s flight to Varennes
Louis and Marie try to escape France, to get an army to help them to reclaim their thrones. They were mere miles from the border when they were caught in the small village of Varennes. -
Constitution of 1791
Redefining the organization of the French government, citizenship and the limits to the powers of government, the National Assembly set out to represent the interests of the general will. -
Brunswick Manifesto
The Brunswick Manifesto warns that should the royal family be harmed by the popular movement, an "exemplary and eternally memorable revenge" will follow. -
National Convention
French Army stops advance of Coalition troops at Valmy. -
The Terror or Reign of Terror
The Terror was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution." The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine and another 25,000 in summary executions across France. -
Directory
A body of five directors that held executive power in France right after the Convention. -
Napoleon Bonaparte takes over
On this date Napoleon makes himself first consul. -
Concordat of 1801
The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, signed on 15 July 1801. It solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and brought back most of its civil status. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Americans buy Louisiana from France. -
- Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic Code is the French civil code, established under Napoléon I in 1804. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
Napoleon is crowned emperor of France. -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Continental System
The Continental System was the foreign policy of Napoleon in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars. It was a large-scale embargo against British trade -
- Peninsular War
The Peninsular War was a war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Invasion of Russia
This invasion was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. The French lost a lot of men, and allies. -
Exile to Elba
Napoleon was forced to abdicate. He was then forced to go to ELba, a town near Sicily, Italy. -
- Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought between Napoleon, emperor of France and the Prussian Army headed by Gebhard Von Blucher. -
- Exile to St. Helena
After Napoleon leaves his exile in Elba, and tries to prepare an army to get back his throne, Napoleon is exiled to St. Helena.
