french revolution timeline

  • Execution of King Louis XVI

    Execution of King Louis XVI

    In November 1792, a secret cupboard containing proof of Louis' counter-revolutionary beliefs and correspondence with foreign powers was discovered in Tuileries Palace. He was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793
  • Women's March on Versailles

    Women's March on Versailles

    Many of the soldiers in the National Guard sided with the women marchers.
    The Palace of Versailles was located around 12 miles southwest of Paris.
    Future leaders of the French Revolution met with the marchers at the palace including Robespierre and Mirabeau.
  • May 5, 1789 meeting with the Estates-General

    May 5, 1789 meeting with the Estates-General

    It is the start of the french revolution.It also passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
  • Tennis Court Oath

    Tennis Court Oath

    The Tennis Court Oath was a pledge that was signed in the early days of the French Revolution and was an important revolutionary act.
  • Storming of the Bastille

    Storming of the Bastille

    The main reason is hungry due to a lack of food from poor harvests, upset at the conditions of their lives and annoyed with their King and Government.
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    Declaration of the Rights of Man

    It sets out the “natural and inalienable” rights, which are freedom, ownership, security, resistance to oppression.
  • Maximillian Robespierre's execution

    Maximillian Robespierre's execution

    On July 27, 1794, Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. The next day Robespierre and 21 of his followers were taken to the Place de la Révolution , where they were executed by guillotine before a cheering crowd.
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    Reign of Terror

    The Reign of Terror , or simply the Terror was a climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution (1789-99), which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary 'suspects' between September 1793 and July 1794.
  • Napoleonic Code is established

    Napoleonic Code is established

    Enacted on March 21, 1804, the resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era. The Civil Code addressed mainly matters relating to property and families.
  • Napoleon Crowns himself emperor

    Napoleon Crowns himself emperor

    He did it to gain prestige in international royalist and Catholic circles and to lay the foundation for a future dynasty.
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    Peninsular War

    Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan.the Spanish Constitution of 1812, the restoration of Ferdinand VII as King, and the collapse of the First French Empire.
  • Napoleon and his men march on Russia

    Napoleon and his men march on Russia

    the Grande Armée, led by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Neman River, invading Russia from present-day Poland. The result was a disaster for the French. The Russian army refused to engage with Napoleon's Grande Armée of more than 500,000 European troops.
  • Napoleon is to Elbaexiled

    Napoleon is to Elbaexiled

    On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.
  • Napoleon dies

    Napoleon dies

    he got too sick and died from it.