France

  • Period: to

    Moderate

  • National Assembly is formed

  • Period: to

    Great Fear sweeps France

  • Citizens storm the Bastille

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • Poor women of Paris march on Versailles

  • Royal Family confined to Tuileries

  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted

  • Royal Family attempts to flee France

  • Constitution creates a limited monarchy

  • Third Constitution is adopted

  • Paris mob invades Tuileries palace

  • Period: to

    Radical

  • France becomes a Republic

  • Louis XVI beheaded

  • Committee of Public Safety is created

  • Marie Antoinette is beheaded

  • Period: to

    Reign of Terror

  • Robespierre is beheaded

  • Period: to

    Reaction

  • Directory takes power

  • Period: to

    Napoleon invades Egypt

  • Napoleon becomes 1st Consul

  • Period: to

    Age of Napoleon

  • Concordat with the Catholic Church

  • Napoleon named Consul for life

  • Napoleonic Code adopted

  • Napoleon becomes Emperor

  • Battle of Trafalgar

  • Battle of Austerlitz

  • Period: to

    Napoleon invades Spain

  • Period: to

    Napoleon invades Russia

  • Battle of Leipzig

  • Napoleon is exiled to Elba

  • Napoleon returns from Elba

  • Battle of Waterloo

  • Napoleon exiled to St. Helena

  • Napoleon dies