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French Revolution

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    Moderate

    This phase turned France into a constitutional monarchy.
  • Estates General meets

  • National Assembly is formed

  • Citizens storm the Bastille

  • Great Fear sweeps France

    Great Fear sweeps France

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • Poor women of Paris march on Versailles

  • Royal Family confined to Tuileries

  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted

  • Royal Family attempts to flee France

  • Constitution creates a limited monarchy

    Constitution creates a limited monarchy

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    Radical

    The declaration may have been a bluff, but the revolutionaries took it seriously and prepared for war. The revolution now entered a radical phase.
  • Paris mob invades Tuileries palace

    Paris mob invades Tuileries palace

  • France becomes a Republic

  • Louis XVI beheaded

  • Committee of Public Safety is created

  • Reign of Terror

  • Marie Antoinette is beheaded

  • Robespierre is beheaded

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    Reaction

    A moderate phase in which the French people revolted against the Reign of Terror’s excesses.
  • Third Constitution is adopted

  • Napoleon invades Egypt

    Napoleon invades Egypt

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    Age of Napoleon

    Classified as including the fourth and final stage of the French Revolution, the first being the National Assembly, the second being the Legislative Assembly, and the third being the Directory.
  • Directory takes power

    Directory takes power

  • Concordat with the Catholic Church

    Concordat with the Catholic Church

  • Napoleon named Council for life

  • Napoleon becomes 1st Consul

  • The Napoleonic Code adopted

  • Napoleon becomes Emperor

  • Battle of Trafalgar

  • Battle of Austerlitz

  • Napoleon invades Spain

  • Napoleon invades Russia

    Napoleon invades Russia

  • Napoleon retreats from Russia

  • Battle of Leipzig

  • Napoleon abdicates the thrown & Louis

    Napoleon abdicates the thrown & Louis

  • Napoleon gets exiled to Elba

    Napoleon gets exiled to Elba

  • XVIII takes the thrown

  • Napoleon returns from Elba

  • Battle of Waterloo

  • Napoleon exiled to St. Helena

    Napoleon exiled to St. Helena

  • Napoleon dies