French Revolution Time Line

  • Great Fire of Boston

    Great Fire of Boston
    The first of Boston hit the people like a brick in the face. It took place in Boston in 1760 and destroyed over 349 buildings. The fire spread from Washington Street all the way to Fort Hill. With that many buildings being gone it left thousands homeless.
  • The Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris
    The Treaty of Paris was signed by the one and only King George lll of Britain. The Treaty of Paris was designed to end the Revolutionary War. The Treaty stated that a boundary should be placed between the British Empire and the United States.
  • The Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act
    The Sugar Act is known as the American Revenue Act. In 1764 British decided to reduce the taxes on Molasses. The British hoped but lowering the amount of taxes that it would be easier to collect taxes
  • The American Revolution

    The American Revolution
    The American revolution was a huge uproar because of politics. This was the first time that the Thirteen American Colonies were able to take authority of the king of Britain and find the United States. It all started by Americans being Americans and rejecting the British to be able to tax them.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was known as the "Incident of King street by the British". The British was under attach they took the lives of many people to save there own. The mob was lead by Patriots, as Paul Revere himself was able to group up people to rebel against the British Army.
  • George Town University

    George Town University
    George Town university was founded in 1789. George Town university was a private research university for very intelligence kids. Since George Town University had grown till this day it has split into nine different under-grate and graduate schools.
  • Napoleon taking over

    Napoleon taking over
    Napoleon was fluke to become the leader of the French Army. With many conflicts he was able to somehow control a stable Army. He was able to lead his army to defeat the largest army in Austria. His results of being leader was able to get the Treaty of Camp Formio signed to get more land for the French.
  • The Tennis Court

    The Tennis Court
    The Tennis Court Oath was a group of people from the third estate that called themselves the National Assembly. It began when they arrived at there original meeting place and they found the door to be locked. They then took themselves to a tennis court saying that they will be there until the constitution would be passed.
  • The Storming of Bastile

    The Storming of Bastile
    The Storming of Bastille was in Paris France. On the afternoon of July 14 the third estate was not happy, they wanted to get all the weapons that they could. Throughout the days they had taken over 250 barrels of gun powder from Bastille to hold for themselves.
  • The Reign of Terror

    The Reign of Terror
    The Reign of Terror was a cruel way to kill people in 1793. It was designed to kill a person in more of a controlled manner. Instead of having a axes man be in charge of killing somebody with multiple blows to the head they decided to make a device that would make one clean cut.