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• 20th -27th June 1789
• Was the third Estate that formed into the national assembly
• Would not break until a written constitution was formed
• Cause: the third estate being locked out of the estates general
• Effect: the national assembly was formed which wrote the Declaration of the rights of the man and citizen -
• 17th June to 9th July 1789
• The national assembly gave the third estate better representation
• eventually would be replaced by the Legislation assembly on 30th September 1791
• the first and second estate joined the national assembly to help form a better government
• cause: the third estate being lock out of the estates general
• effect: helped a new government be formed
• effect: wrote the deceleration of rights of man and citizen -
• 14th July 1789
• The third estate believed the King and nobility wished to disband them
• French troops surrounded Paris
• Parisian Rabble seized the Bastille to help arm peasants
• Poor peasants over through their lords and destroyed feudal documents
• Cause: wealth elite trying to keep the peasants in check for too long
• Effect: end to the feudal system in France
• Effect: Introduced the Declaration of the rights of the man and the citizen -
• 14th July 1789
• Bastille was a national armory and political prison in Paris France
• it was stormed at the beginning of the French revolution
• cause: French revolutionaries march to Bastille to ask for the governor of Bastille to release the arms and munitions, when the governor refused the revolutionaries stormed Bastille
• effect: armed the revolutionaries of the French revolution, also Bastille was destroyed by the order of the revolutionary government. -
• 26th August 1789
• guaranteed equal rights for all men
• stopped against unreasonable arrests
• freedom of speech
• freedom of religion
• anyone could hold a public office
• caused by the tyrannic rule of the previous King
• caused by the 3rd estate being locked out of the estates general
• effect: the citizens to push for more equal rights than before
• effect: The declaration of the rights of women and the female citizen. -
• 4th October 1789
• Crowds of Women marched to Versailles demanding bread for their families
• King Louis promised to distribute all the bread to the women
• The national guard showed up causing the women to storm Versailles
• Maria Antoinette barely escaped
• Cause: food shortage in France and the royal family hording to much
• Effect: King Louis would never see Versailles again -
•September 1791
•gave active citizens the right to vote
•active citizens were 2/3 of the men
• active citizens payed a sum of taxes
• set up the declaration of rights of men and the citizen as a preamble to the constitution
• cause: The middle classes desire for better representation and better voice in the government
• effect: the constitution was not around for long it only lasted one year but it set a constitutional monarchy and would be used an example for the next French constitution -
• 21st January 1792
• Louis XVI was convicted of treason and sentenced to death
• Marie Antoinette, his wife was executed nine months later
• Cause: increased opposition of the king forced King Louis to flee
• Cause: he was apprehended and arrested
• Effect: Allowed Napoleon to ascend to power as the Emperor of France -
• 20th April 1792
• The other countries of Europe were keeping a close eye on France in fear that the revolutionary ideas of France would spread to their country
• Did not want to untie against France anyways
• Cause: The revolutionaries wanted to use war to unite France
• Effect: French forces did not fare well at the beginning but at the end of the war they got better -
the system used by France and its allies to hurt Great Britain • forbid countries from trading with Britain
• it stimulated French economy a little
• overall hurt the entire economy of Europe
• cause: Napoleon's desire to weaken Britain in hopes of eventually conquering it
• effect: hurt Europe's economy
• effect: Russia stopped the blockade hurting the continental system
• effect: Napoleon invaded Russia in hopes of restarting the blockade
• effect: Napoleon's empire began to fall -
• 24th June 1812
• Russian forces retreated destroying everything in their path to stop the French forces
• Napoleon lost 300,000 troops
• Russia lost 200,000 troops
• Cause: Russia not supporting Napoleon’s continental system
• Effect: Napoleon was exiled onto Elba -
Between 185,000 French forces and 320,000 allied forces
Napoleon was forced into the city of Leipzig to save his communications
Napoleon was forced to retreat on October 17th
A nervous corporal blew the bridge that Napoleon’s forces were retreating on early causing 30,000 to be captured
Total 38,000 French wounded or dead
Total 55,000 allied wounded or dead
Cause: Napoleon wanting to reclaim Berlin and the need to salvage communications
Effect: stopped all French control East of the Rhine -
• 11th April 1814
• After Napoleon lost at the battle of Waterloo, he was forced to Abdicate the throne
• Napoleon eventually escaped Elba before being exiled again to Saint Helena
• Cause: Napoleon’s lose at Waterloo
• Effect: Napoleon eventually escaped Elba
• Effect: Napoleon lost once and for all and was exiled to Saint Helena where he died -
• 3rd December 1814
• This ended the French occupation in Spain
• Napoleon started to lose grasps on Spain after losing the Peninsular War
• The wars used more and more French resources then Napoleon had to spare
• Cause: Napoleon’s loss of the Peninsular War
• Effect: Napoleon’s empire was completely out of Spain
• Effect: The French empire shrunk even more than before -
• 18th June 1815
• 73,000 French forces
• 118,000 allied forces
• 41,000 French casualties
• 24,000 allied casualties
• The final defeat of Napoleon
• Cause: Napoleon escaping Elba and wishing to retake his spot as the French Emperor
• Effect: Napoleon was finally defeated, and he spent the rest of his life on Saint Helena
