French Revolution War

  • Period: to

    The Consulate

  • Period: to

    American Rev.

    A war for independence against Great Britain.
  • Revillon Roits

  • Estates-General Meeting

    Gathering where representatives form various sectors of society come together to discuss and make decisions about important political, economic, or social matters.
  • Period: to

    French Rev.

  • The National Assembly is Established

    Established to represent the people of a country and created laws.
  • Tennis Court Oath

    members of the Third Estate, locked out of a meeting of the Estate-General, gathered in a tennis court. Swore not to separate until they had created a new constitution for France.
  • Estates General is Called

    Louis XVI called the nobility, clergy, and third estate bouguassie, as a response to financial crisis facing France.
  • Parisians Storm the Bastille

    Parisians storm the Bastille in a symbolic act of defiance against the oppressive monarchy.
  • Period: to

    The Great Fear

    Rumors spread across rural France that nobles were hiring outlaws to attack peasants and destroy their crops.
  • DRMC

    National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
  • Women's March on Versailles

    Thousands of women, angry over high price and scarcity of bread, March from Paris to the Palace of Versailles. Demanded action from King Louis XVI to address the food crisis and economic inequality.
  • Guillotine

    Guillotine was adopted as a way to kill
  • King Louis XVI

    Has been killed by the Gulliotine
  • Committee of Public Safety is created

    To protect revolution from it enemies. Was responsible for overseeing the governments actions and played major role in the Reign of Terror.
  • Period: to

    Reign of Terror

    Used extreme measures to protect the revolution. Thousand of people were executed by the Guillotine.
  • Queen Marie Defense

    Protect herself and her family during the French Revolution.
  • Queen Marie Antoinette

    Queen Marie Antoinette is removed from power due to her betrayal, demonstrating the rightful consequence for an unjust ruler.
  • Battle of the Nile

  • Period: to

    Egyptian Expedition

  • 18 Brumaire

  • Britain and France

    A historical rivalry between two nations, that cause the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War
  • Battle of Trafalgar

  • Emperor

  • Battle of Austrelitz

  • Period: to

    Continental System

  • Napoleon's Empire and Allies

  • Napoleon Invades Russia

  • Battle of Borodino

  • Congress of Vienna

  • Battle of Leipzig

  • Anatomy of a Revolution

    A book by Crane Brinton outlining the "uniformities" of four major political revolutions: the English Revolution of the 1640s, the American, the French, and the Russian revolutions.