Phases of the French Revolution

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  • Estates General meets (moderate)

  • Citizens attack Paris prisons (moderate)

  • Citizens storm the Bastille (moderate)

  • Great fear sweeps France (moderate)

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man issued (moderate)

  • Period: to

    Poor women of Paris march on Versailles (moderate)

  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy adopted (moderate)

  • Constitution creates a limited monarchy (moderate)

  • Royal family confined to Tuileries (moderate)

  • Period: to

    Royal family attempts to flee France (Moderate)

  • Paris mob invades Tuileries palace

  • France becomes a republic (Radical)

  • Period: to

    Reign of Terror (radical)

  • Louis XVI beheaded (Radical)

  • Committee of Public Safety is created (Radical)

  • Marie Antoinette is beheaded (Radical)

  • Robespierre is beheaded (Reactionary)

  • Directory takes power (Reactionary)

  • Third Constitution is adopted (Reactionary)

  • Napoleon leads invasion of Egypt (Reactionary)

  • Napoleon becomes first Consul (Rule by Napoleon)

  • Concordat with the Catholic Church (Reactionary)

  • Napoleon named consul for life (Rule by Napoleon)

  • Napoleonic code adopted (Rule by Napoleon)

  • Napoleon becomes emperor (rule by Napoleon)

  • Period: to

    Battles of Austerlitz and Trafalgar (rule by Napoleon)

  • Napoleon’s army invades Spain (rule by Napoleon)

  • Napoleon invades Russia, retreats (rule by Napoleon)

  • Napoleon returns from Elba excile (Rule by Napoleon)

  • • Battle of Waterloo (Rule by Napoleon)

  • Napoleon abdicates, Louis XVIII takes throne (Rule by Napoleon)

  • Napoleon dies (Rule by Napoleon)