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The Estates General was convened in Versailles.
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The National Assembly elected legislature in France.
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The Tennis Court Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of the Estates General meeting.
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The storming of the Bastille was when the French peasants stormed Bastille prison.
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The Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen was a document that provided the basis of the French constituition. It was basically a condensed version.
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A law that was passed to make the roman catholic church have less power in the french government.
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This was a statement issued at Pillnitz Castle near Dresden.
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France provokes Prussia as well.
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The Battle of Valmy was a major victory by the army of France.
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Louis XVI was executed one day after being convicted of conspiracy and sentences to death by the French National Convention.
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France declares war on British and Dutch.
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The committee of public safety was created by the National Convention. It was a coalition of European nations and by counter-revolutionary forces in France.
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Sent his fellow denizens and friends Danton and Desmoulins to the guillotine.
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The directory was a group of 5 men who held the executive power in France.
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A peace settlement between France and Austria.
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Fought between French army in Egypt under Napoleon.
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British won victory.
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Defeat of an Ottoman army sent to expel Napoleon from Egypt.
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Catholic Church has a new Pope, Pope Pius VII
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Britain and Bavoria sign treaty of alliance.
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French victory.
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Notre Dame the pope crowned Napoleon Emperor. French confirmed it with a vote.
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Napoleon was crowned emperor.
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The Battle of Trafalgar was fought between the British Royal Navy against the French Navy and Spanish Navy fleets.
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Trouble with the Spanish.
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Napoleon divorced Josephine and married her grnad niece.
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The British blockade against France hurts France's economy.
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The invasion of Russia was an attempt to make Tsar Alexander agree to the terms of a treaty that Napoleon brought upon him four years earlier.
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Nations ally against Napoleon.
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Napoleon accepts defeat and his exiled to Elba.
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Louis XVII takes Napoleon's place and becomes king.
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The forces of the French Empire under the leadership of Michael Ney and Napoleon Bonaparte were defeated by the Seventh Coalition and a Prussian Army,
