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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain ... emerging in Belgium and the United States and later textiles in France. -
French people reveal themselves and begin an arduous and new stage, a great struggle between the Old Regime, marked by a society organized in estates, and its opponents. -
The oath of the Jeu de Paume is the solemn commitment of union taken on June 20, 1789 at the Jeu de Paume room, in Versailles, by 300 deputies of the third estate, with whom certain deputies of the clergy and the nobility join during of the Estates General of 1789. -
One of the inaugural and emblematic events of the French Revolution. -
On September 21, 1792, the deputies of the new National Convention voted to abolish the constitutional monarchy in France. -
The Terror is the term commonly used to designate a period of the French Revolution between 1793 and 1794 -
On January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was executed on the Place de la Révolution in Paris. Settled down to the smallest detail, this killing appears as the ritual and bloody sacrifice that founded the French Republic. -
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The coronation of Napoleon Iᵉʳ is the enthronement and coronation ceremony that follows the proclamation of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of the French under the title of Napoleon Iᵉʳ on May 18, 1804 -
The Battle of Austerlitz, nicknamed the "Battle of the Three Emperors", took place on Monday, December 2, 1805, between Brünn and Austerlitz, in southern Moravia, then an Austrian possession. -
The first abdication of Napoleon I is a moment in the history of France which saw the Emperor of the French forced, in April 1814, to leave power following his military defeat after the campaign of France and the Allied invasion. -
The Congress of Vienna is a conference of diplomatic representatives of the great European powers which took place in Vienna from September 18, 1814 to June 9, 1815. -
The Hundred Days are the period in the history of France between the return to France of the Emperor Napoleon I, on March 1, 1815, and the dissolution of the Napoleon II Commission, in charge of executive power after Napoleon's second abdication. -
The battle of Waterloo takes place on June 18, 1815, in Belgium, twenty kilometers south of Brussels, in the current province of Walloon Brabant -
The second abdication of Napoleon Iᵉʳ is the act by which the Emperor of the French, on June 22, 1815, at the end of the Hundred Days and after the defeat of Waterloo, renounces the throne in favor of his son. -
The massacre of Chios was perpetrated by the Ottomans against the Greek population of the island of Chios in April 1822. -
The conquest of Algeria by France is carried out in several distinct stages. It begins with the landing of the African army at Sidi-Ferruch on June 14, 1830, commanded by General de Bourmont. It ends in part with the formal surrender of the Emir Abdelkader to the Duke of Aumale, December 23, 1847 -
The Three Glorious Days are three revolutionary days that took place in July 1830, in Paris. They led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy, headed by the King of the French, Louis-Philippe. -
On February 24, 1848, Louis-Philippe, King of the French, abdicated after three days of republican insurrection. After eighteen years of reign, it is the end of the July Monarchy, the birth of the Second Republic. -
Universal suffrage was proclaimed on March 2, 1848. All French people over the age of 21 were called upon to elect a Constituent Assembly. -
First president of the 2nd Republic -
The coup of December 2, 1851 is the act by which, in violation of constitutional legitimacy, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, President of the Second French Republic for three years, retains power a few months before the end of his term.
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The Second Empire is the constitutional and political system established in France on December 2, 1852 when Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, first President of the French Republic, became the sovereign Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, one year to the day after his coup d'etat. of December 2, 1851. -
The fall of the Second Empire was officially declared on 4 September 1870, a Republic was proclaimed and a provisional government put in place while France was still at war with Germany.
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The Third Republic, or IIIᵉ Republic, is the republican regime in force in France from September 1870 to July 1940, i.e. for almost 70 years, the first to impose itself in France in the long term since 1789. -
The Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 was the tenth Universal Exhibition organized. It is held from May 5 to October 31, 1889. Its theme is the French Revolution, as part of the centenary of this event. It was on the occasion of this commemorative exhibition that the Eiffel Tower was built -
The Dreyfus affair is a state affair that later became a major social and political conflict of the Third Republic, which arose in France at the end of the 19th century around the accusation of treason made against Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew from Alsatian origin, who is finally exonerated. -
serious diplomatic incident which opposed France to the United Kingdom in 1898 in the advanced military post of Fashoda in Sudan (today, South Sudan). Its impact was all the greater as these countries were then agitated by strong nationalist currents. -
France took the leading position in the industrial Revolution.
This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, the increasing use of steam power and water power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the mechanized factory system. The Industrial Revolution also led to an unprecedented rise in the rate of population growth. -
Mobile warfare is a military strategy using fast and efficient movement to win a battle. It was theorized in the 19th century, by the analysis of the Napoleonic wars and was used at the beginning and end of the First World War. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit -
Germany launches an ultimatum against Russia and France. The German invasion of France will end in eternal trench warfare. -
Positional warfare or trench warfare is a war that settles in one place and lasts. It opposes the war of movement. -