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Storming of the bastille
The Storming of the Bastille was an event that happened in Paris, France, on the afternoon of july 14th 1789, when the revolutionaries stormed and stopped control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille. -
Women's march of Versilles
The Women's March on Versailles is an important event at the start of the French Revolution. It happened on october 5th 1789. It gave the revolutionaries confidence in the power of the people over the king. -
Luis Tries to escape
The royal Flight to Varenne during the night of the 20th through the 21st of June 1791 was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, Queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution -
Reign of terror
The French Revolution had began 4 years earlier before the Storming of the Bastille. the government had been in a constant state of change. By 1793, the revolutionary government was in crisis. France was being attacked by countries on all sides and the civil war was breaking out in many places, Radicals led by Maximilien Robespierre took over the government and started the Reign of Terror. -
Luis the XVI executed
The execution of Louis XVI done by guillotine, a major event of the French Revolution, took place publicly on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution in Paris. -
End of Terror
Robespierre and his followers were executed on July 28, 1794. the overthrow of Robespierre and his associates happened on July 27, 1794, with the end of the Terror, it is more accurate to see a continuing period of terror -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
On May 18, 1804, Napoleon claimed himself emperor and made Josephine Empress. His coronation took place on December 2, 1804, at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, at considerable expense. The royal court of the French Emperor became a public spectacle of pomp and elegance. -
Battle of trafalgar
Battle of Trafalgar. On October 21, 1805 the naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars was established by the british naval supremacy for more than 100 years. it was fought west of Cape Trafalgar, Spain, between the Cádiz and the Strait of Gibraltar. A fleet of 33 ships there was 18 French and 15 Spanish under Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve fought a British fleet of 27 ships under Admiral Horatio Nelson. -
Invasion of Russia
On June 24, 1812, the Grande Armée, was led by the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Neman River, invading Russia from Poland. This result was a disaster for the French. -
France declares war on Austria and Prussia
French Revolutionary wars, the name was given to the hostilities between France and one or more European powers between 1792 and 1799. It comprises the first seven years of the period of warfare that was continued through the Napoleonic Wars until Napoleon’s abdication in 1814, with a year of interruption under the peace of Amiens (1802–03). The end of 1799 may be conveniently taken as the dividing point between the Revolutionary and Napoleonic phases of the conflict.