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The first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, the estates being the nobility, the Church, and the common people.
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A pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General
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A public holiday, this is the day that the middle class stormed the Bastille prison
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Peasants, fearing grain shortages and militias guarding grain supplies, attacked manors in self-defense
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The National Assembly adopted the French constitution
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This was the time when women were near rioting about the high price of bread.
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Louis XVI takes the royal family and attempts to flee from Paris to Montmedy but they only make it to Varennes before they are caught and arrested.
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Louis XVI reluctantly accepts the draft of the Constitution.
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A proclimation is issued by Charles Ferdinand, the Duke of Brunswick, threatening that if the royal family was harmed, the people would be too.
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Held power during the first years of the First French Republic
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The period of violence in which tens of thousands were executed by guillotine.
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Government system where 5 directors had executive power in France.
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He gained a lot of power through military success and installed himself as First Consul.
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Agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII that solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France.
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U.S. buys louisiana territory from France for 78 Francs (15 million dollars). (Not a very good deal for the French).
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Napoleon established control over most of continental Europe during his reign as emperor.
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This forbade privilages based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and said government jobs must go to the most qualified.
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Sea battle fought between the British Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navy.
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Trade embargo against Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic wars.
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War between the French and the combined forces of Spain, Portugal, and the UK for the Iberian Peninsula.
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Napoleon tries to take over Russia, Russian army wins by retreating deep into the country and starving out French army.
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Napoleon was exiled to an island 20 km off the Tuscan coast, in charge of 12,000 inhabitants of the island, kept his title of Emperor.
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Napoleon returns to power in 1815 and gets taken down by the 7th coalition. Last campaign of Napoleon.
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Napoleon was exiled for the rest of his life on St. Helena Island. Not allowed to return to France again, Napoleon died on St. Helena Island in 1821.
