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French Revolution

  • Louis XVI calls the Estates General

    Louis XVI calls the Estates General

    because France, both government and people, was broke
  • Tennis Court Oath

    Tennis Court Oath

    France swore they would not disperse until a constitution was established for France
  • Writing of the Declaration of the Rights of Men

    Writing of the Declaration of the Rights of Men

    The Marquis de Lafayette, with the help of Thomas Jefferson
  • Parisians storming the Bastille

    Parisians storming the Bastille

    France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille
  • March on Versailles

    March on Versailles

    King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette
  • Execution of the King and Queen

    Execution of the King and Queen

    Louis XVI was executed on January 21, 1793
  • Establishment of the New French Constitution

    Establishment of the New French Constitution

    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
  • Reign of Terror

    Reign of Terror

    The massive death toll caused by the Reign of Terror
  • Napoleon Overthrows the Directory

    Napoleon Overthrows the Directory

    The coup d'état of 18 Brumaire
  • Napoleon Builds an Empire

    Napoleon Builds an Empire

    through conquest of territories belonging to his enemies
  • Napoleon Invades Russia

    Napoleon Invades Russia

    in an attempt to force Tsar Alexander I to cease trading with Britain.
  • 6th Coalition Occupies Paris

    6th Coalition Occupies Paris

    defeated the First French Empire and drove Napoleon into exile on the island of Elba
  • King Louis XVIII Begins His Reign

    King Louis XVIII Begins His Reign

    King of France in 1795, before officially becoming King Louis XVIII in 1814 at the fall of the Empire.
  • The Congress of Vienna Meets

    The Congress of Vienna Meets

    discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Napoleon Defeated at Waterloo

    Napoleon Defeated at Waterloo

    the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher