french revolution

  • 1789

    where the French revolution begins and where George Washington inaugurated as the first president.
  • 1791

    The Narional assembly affirmed the "rights of man" and set up the new constitution of 1791
  • 1792

    The French fared badly in the initial fighting because Austria and Prussia threaten to use force to restore Louise XVI to full power by this threat and fearing the Legislative assembly decided to strike first declaring war on Austria.
  • 1793

    Louis XVI gets executed after a vote 380 to 310.
  • 1793

    European monarchs rally troops to restore the French monarchy
  • 1793

    Revolts begin in western France; counterrevolutions exclude ; anti- Catholic laws passed.
  • 1794

    The law of 22 Prairial was passed which gave Robespierre more power.
  • 1795

    to keep any from gain to much power they set up two legislative houses.
  • 1796

    Napoleon became the commodore of the French army.
  • 1797

    Napoleon returned to France as a hero and was given command of an army training to take over Britain
  • 1799

    In Paris Napoleon took part in the coup d'état and overthrew the government, the consulate
  • 1801

    Napoleon came to an agreement with the pope, Which recognized Catholicism as the religion of a majority of the French people.
  • 1802

    A peace treaty was signed but it did not last long a war broke out in 1803.
  • 1805 to 1807

    Napoleons Great army defeated the Austrian ,Prussian, and Russian armies.
  • 1807 to 1812

    Napoleon was the master of Europe.
  • 1812

    Napoleons down fall begin when he invaded Russia
  • 1813

    Thousands of solders froze to death or staved along the way fewer than 40,000 of the original 600,000 soldiers arrived back in Poland.
  • 1814

    This military disaster led to other Europeans states to rise up and attack the crippled French army leading to the capture of Paris. Leading to Napoleon soon going to exile on the island Elba.
  • 1815

    Napoleon defeated at the battle of waterloo.