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The Estates-General were convened on May 5, 1789, and quickly faced a division over two voting methods: by head or by estate. On June 17, the Third Estate declared itself the National Assembly in middle of several tensions, threatning to continue without the other estates. Many parish priests supported the Third Estate, outnumbering the upper clergy among the church's representatives. -
On June 20, 1789, the representatives of France's Third Estate, showed defiance during the Estates-General by refusing to disband if a written constitution wasn't established. Locked out of their meeting hall, they met in a nearby tennis court, and promised to stay united against the nobility clergy. Facing their solidarity, King Louis XVI eventually ordered these groups to join the National Assembly on June 27, indicating a key event in the French Revolution. -
On July, 14, 1789, it was rumoured that that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France’s newly constituted National Assembly. This led to a crowd of Parisians besieging the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison. This victory over royal authority became a symbol of revolutionary struggle, leading to the establishment of Bastille Day as a national holiday in France, commemorating the event. -
The August Decrees was a set of 19 articles passed National Constituent Assembly, whose goal was to end tax exemption privileges of the upper classes and feudalism. This was a significant moment during the Revolution. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, adopted by France’s National Assembly from August 20 to August 26, 1789, comprises 17 articles that laid the foundation for human liberties and inspired the French Revolution. Some articles declared: All men are born and remain free and equal in rights (Artcle 1). All citizens were equal before the law and were to have the right to participate in legislation directly or indirectly (Article 2) -
This event was a key moment of the Revolution. King Louis XVI of France , his wife Queen Marie Antoinette , and their children attempt to escape from Paris on the night of 20-21 June 1791. Even though they make it to the small town of Varennes-en-Argonne, they finally end up being arrested and returned to Paris. -
France declared war on Austria due to its support for émigrés and military buildup. The declaration stated that France was not making war for conquest, but out of necessity to defend its freedom and independence. France entered the conflict with an unprepared military: many experienced officers had emigrated, discipline was poor, and revolutionary politics undermined the army’s cohesion. -
Also known as the Insurrection of 10 August, key moment in the French Revolution in which the armed revolutionaries of Paris invaded King Louis XVI of France's residence and slayed his Swiss Guards. This specific event abolished France's monarchy, highlighting the beginning of a new phase of the revolution. -
Robespierre was the Coup of 9 Thermidor. on 27 July of 1794, the Convention declared Robespierre and his allies outlaws.Robespierre fled to the Hotel de Ville in Paris, pursued by troops loyal to the Convention. He was executed by the guillotine. -
King Louis XVI of France was accused of treason in an attempt of freeing the country. In the end he was found guilty by the National Convention and condemned to death, he was guillotined in the Place de la Révolution in Paris on January 21, 1793. Nine months later his wife had the same fate. -
One of Napoleon's greatest victories. The battle took place in Austerlitz. Napoleon's army defeated a greater Russian-Austrian army. 68,000 troops from Napoleon defeated 90,000 Russians and Austrians. Mikhail Kutuzov was forcing Austria to make peace with France through the Treaty of Pressburg and keeping Prussia temporarily out of the anti-French alliance. -
Naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, which established that British naval would have supremacy for more 100 years and it was fought west of Cape Trafalgar, Spain, between Cádiz and the Strait of Gibraltar. A fleet of 33 ships (18 French and 15 Spanish) ruled by Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve fought a British fleet of 27 ships under Admiral Horatio Nelson. -
This battle destroyed what was left of French power in Germany and Poland. The battle was fought at Leipzig, in Saxony, between 185,000 French and other troops under Napoleon, and 320,000 allied troops, including Austrian, Prussian, Russian, and Swedish forces. After he retreated from Russia in 1812, Napoleon mounted a new offensive in Germany in 1813 even though his armies failed to take Berlin and were forced to withdraw west of the Elbe River. -
This battle was Napoleon's last defeat ending 23 years of recurrent wars between France and European powers. It occured during the Hundred Days of Napoleon’s restoration between Napoleon’s 72,000 troops and the combined forces of the duke of Wellington’s allied army of 68,000 and about 45,000 Prussians, the main force of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher’s command.