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Enightenment
An intellectual movement where thinkers used reason and scientific methods rather then religous teachings to understand their world. -
Rise of Napoleon
A young military general who became the emperor of France. -
Creation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen Drafted
New constitution is made to enforce new laws that gave more rights to people. -
Formation of the National Assembly
When the third estate gets locked out of the meeting hall so they broke into a tennis court and kept meeting there. -
Tennis Court Oath
When the third estate broke into a tennis court and started having meetings there. -
Boukman Revolt
A former slave and voodo priest, who organizeda slave rebellion that is often considered the starting point of the Haitian Revloution. -
Reign of Terror
When people were killed for being suspected of anti-revolutionary activities or of helping France's enemies -
War of Knives
Louverture and Riguad got in a disagreement and they began a battle that lasted over a year and ended when Louverture with the help of the British overcame Riguad. -
Peninsular War
When Portugal refused to take partin the Continental system, Napoleon sent troops through spain to attack portugal, from 1808-1813 the Spanish attacked French troops stationed there. -
Congress of Vienna
A series of meetings in Vienna were called to set up policies to achieve this goal. -
Opium War
A conflict between Britain and China, lasting from 1839 to 1842, over Britain's opium trade in China. -
Matthew Perry goes to Japan
Us guy that told Japan that they had to open there trading ports and made Japan realize that they were so far behind, and if Japan didnt open their ports the U.S would attack them. -
Signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa
An agreement between the US and Japan, Japan agreed to open up two ports to US trade and estabish an embassy in Japan. -
Boxer Rebellion
A 1900 rebellion in China aimed to ending foreign infuence in the country. -
Meiji Era (Restoration)
All land was given to the emperor, and owned br him, and representatives were sent to study foreign countries.
