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Moderate Phase
Turned France into a constitutional monarchy. -
Estates-General meets
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National Assembly is formed
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Citizens storm the Bastille
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Citizens attack Paris prison
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Poor women of Paris march on Versailles
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted
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Royal Family confined to Tuileries
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Royal Family attempts to flee France
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Constitution creates a limited monarchy
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Radical Phase
Escalating violence led to the end of the monarchy and a Reign of Terror. -
Paris mob invades Tuileries palace
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france becomes a republic
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Louis XVI beheaded
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Reign of Terror
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Committee of Public Safety is created
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Directory takes power
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Robespierre is beheaded
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Reaction Phase
Parliamentary revolt initiated, which resulted in the fall of Maximilien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror in France. -
The third Constitution is adopted
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Great Fear sweeps France
In the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others start rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate. -
Napoleon invades Egypt
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Age of Nepolean Phase
In 1815 Napoleon is going to be defeated by the British and the Prussian at Waterloo. -
Directory takes power
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Concordat with the Catholic Church
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Napoleon becomes 1st Consul
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Napoleon named Consul for life
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Napoleonic Code adopted
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Napoleon becomes Emperor
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Battle of Trafalgar
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Battle of Austerlitz
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XVIII takes the thrown
Louis XVIII fled, and a Seventh Coalition declared war on the French Empire, defeated Napoleon again, and again restored Louis XVIII to the French throne. -
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Napoleon invades Spain
French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain. Thus began the Peninsular War, an important phase of the Napoleonic Wars that was fought between France and much of Europe -
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Napoleon retreats from Russia
The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian campaign, was begun by Napoleon to force Russia back into the Continental blockade of the United Kingdom. -
Napoleon invades Russia
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Battle of Leipzig
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Napoleon is exiled to Elba
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Napoleon returns from Elba
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Battle of Waterloo
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Napoleon abdicates the thrown & Louis
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Napoleon abdicated the throne & Louis year
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Napoleon exiled to St. Helena
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Napoleon dies
