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Estates General
The Estates General meets for the first time since 1614. -
Tennis Court Oath
Tennis Court Oath of dismissed Estates-General members who refuse to adjourn until a new constitution was made. -
Storming of the Bastille
Revolutionists stormed the bastille in order to obtain gun powder for arming themselves. -
The Great Fear
The Great Fear was during a grain shortage, in which peasants revolted and attacked some manor houses. -
Declaration of the Righst of Man
Declaration made claiming all men to be free and equal -
Women's March
Peasant women marched to versaille demanding bread, and they brought Louis and Marie back with them. -
Flight To Varennes
The royal family fled in hopes of creating a counter revolution, but were caught and taken to jail. -
Constitution of 1791
A constitution created in order to limit the power of the king. -
Brunswick Manifesto
The Brunswick Manifesto threatened that if the French royal family were harmed, then French civilians would be harmed -
National Convention
The National Convention or Convention, in France, comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly -
Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution. -
Directory
The Directory was a body of five Directors that held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate. -
Napolean Takes Over
The coup of 18 Brumaire was the coup d'état by which General Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the French Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. -
Concordat
The Concordat solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and brought back most of its civil status. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. -
Napoleonic Code Approved
The Napoleonic Code is the French civil code, established under Napoléon I in 1804. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified. -
Napoleon Becomes Emperor
On May 18, 1804, Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense. -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Continental System
The Continental System or Continental Blockade was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Peninsular War
The Peninsular War was a war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when French and Spanish armies crossed Spain and invaded Portugal in 1807. -
Exile to Elba
On this day in 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates the throne, and in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
Invasion of Russia
By 1812 Napoleon felt he must invade Russia. When Russia abandoned the continental system it was just a matter of time before war. Napoleon was determined to get there first and so led a huge army of 600,000 into Russia. -
Battle of Waterloo
An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. -
Exile to St. Helena
After his defeat at Waterloo, the European powers were not going to take any chances on Napoleon's possible return. They exiled him to the island of St. Helena, a barren, wind-swept rock located in the South Atlantic Ocean.