Revolution Timeline

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    Toussaint Louverture takes control of Haiti

    The leader of the Haitian Revolution and Independence movement and the black slaves in all of saints Domingue
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    Simon Bolivar establishes the Republic of Venezuela

    Dedication of independence in Venezuela
  • the storming of the bastille

    the storming of the bastille

    Following the storming of bastille the fortress was destroyed
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    Revolution in Haiti begins

    Haitian victory French colonial government expelled massacre of the French
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    Haitian Independence

    thousands of former slaves would fight for their freedoms
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    the Reign of Terror

    the overthrow of the Girondins and the ascendancy of the Jacobins under Robespierre.
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    Napoleon becomes emperor

    Napoleon civil law code takes effect. He becomes emperor of the French
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    Execution of Miguel Hidalgo

    After a crushing defeat at the Battle of Calderón Bridge on January 17, 1811 Hidalgo fled north hoping to escape into the United States. He was caught on March 21 and executed by a firing squad on July 30, 1811, at age 58.
  • Independence of Peru, Bolivia, Panama, Venezuela, and Ecuador

    The Bolivarian countries are six Hispanic American countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela) whose republican origin is attributed to the ideals of Simón Bolívar and independence war led by the Venezuelan military in the viceroyalties of New Granada and Peru.
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    Declaration of the Rights of Man

    Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good. The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man