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It was an assembly in France formed from the National Assembly in 1789. It became the effective government in France after the Storming of the Bastille. It took important decisions like for example abolishing Feudalism. It was dissolved in 1791, when France started to function as a Consitutional Monarchy.
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It was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: clergy, nobility and commoners. It was summoned by King Louis XVI, it ended up with the Third estate (commoners) formed the National Assembly against the wishes of the King and proposed joining to the other two estates. This marked the beginning of the French Revolution. -
It was an act committed by the French Third Estate during the meeting of the Estates General where they moved to a tennis court close to the Assembly, and they swore to never separate from there until there was a Constitution written for France. -
The Bastille, a state prison on the outside of Paris was attacked by a group of French peasants where they liberated many political prisoners and others. It was a turning point that encouraged the French Revolution even more.
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The National Constituent Assembly adopted 18 articles. The main topics they got into and mentioned where the abolition of feudalism, noble privileges, seigneurial rights and their abolition and the unification of France.
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It was born of the idea of the Constituet Assembly, which was formed by the Assembly of the Estates General to draft a new Constitution. The task of examining the draft declarations resided in five deputies: Démeunier, La Luzerne, Tronchet, Mirabeau et Redon. -
It was the Legislature of the Kingom of France during the French Revolution. It focused on political debate and law-making between the National Constituet Assembly and the first Republic. It ended in 1792, giving step to the first French Republic.
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Louis XVI tried to escape tried escaping from Paris on June 20th trying to emigrate to Austria to receive a better protection, but the King and his family were recognised and captured in Varennes. This tarnished the image of the monarch even more in the eyes of the French town, who were angry. -
It was founded during the French Revolution, before the execution of Louis XVI. It was the first time in history that the nation of France wasn't ruled by a monarch.The era of the Republic in France was divided into two periods: the National Convention and the Directory, consequently. After Robespierre's execution as consequence of the poor economic situation and many others, the French Republic came to an end in 1799, and the French Consulate was declared with Napoleon as head of the state.
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It was the first stage of the French Republic. It was elected to provide a new Constitution after the abolition of the Monarchy. Two revolutionary parties: the Montagnards (1792-1793) and the Girondins (1793-1795). These years were characterized by the Reign of Terror. This meant massive killings and murders by the government to anyone who stood opposition against the laws or rules. That and economic struggles led to the execution of the leader Robespierre.
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The other European countries, concerned about the situation in France, wanted to keep an eye on what was happening there. Austria even placed some troops in the French border. France sent Austria an ultimatum where they warned Austria to retire their troops from there, and ended declaring war on them. -
Armed French revolutionaries, called the Jacobins stormed the Tuileries Palace and captured it. This led to the abolition of the French Monarchy and establishment of the Republic where it took control over the state. -
On the 20th of January of 1793, the French King Louis XVI was sentenced to death by the French National Convention, and he was guillotined in front of the whole city of Paris.
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Robespierre was one of the leaders of the Comittee of Public Safety in France after the execution of Louis XVI. But as time went on, he became more and more authoritarian, and that led to the discontent of the French town. On July 27th 1794 he was arrested at the Hotel de Ville in Paris alongside twenty one of his followers. The next day, him and his followers were guillotined in the Place de la Revolution, the same place as Louis XVI. -
After the National Convention with the Reign of Terror, France settled to a more structured republic with the directory. The Directory was led by more less 750 delegates, with 500 of 30 years of age or older making up the Conseil de Cinq-Cents, who proposed and made laws, and 250 of 40 years or older making up the Conseil des Anciens. But the country had no funds to back up their own plans and would end up yielding its power to Napoleon for him to become the Emperor and create a dictatorship.
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It was established after the fall of the Directory. The Constitution of the year VIII established three consuls to lead France: Napoleon Bonaparte, Emmanuel Joseph-Sieyes and Pierre-Roger Ducos, but it was Napoleon that held all the real power, while the other two only monitorized. It tecnically became a dictatorship, since elections became rigged and fake, and Napoleon had all the power of the nation. He stopped hiding it when he abolished the Consulate in 1804 and declared himseld Emperor.
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Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to establish a French Empire that would have the most power of all European countries. His years were divided into a Consulate (1799-1804) and an Empire (1804-1815). The Napoleonic Era was characterized by the abundant number of wars that France participated in during that time. He was succesful and his strategies were efficient until 1812, when he started losing wars, many of them against the British, and finally, after the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon abdicated.
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During this period, Napoleon Bonaparte possessed all power and France oficially became a dictatorship. He made France the largest nation in Europe and conquered Spain, Portugal, Austria, Naples, Prussia, Sardinia among others. France had become the greatest power in Europe but Napoleon's ambitions went further than that. In 1812, he tried to conquer Russia and failed miserably. This defeat added up to many others weakened France greatly until he gave up the throne of France on April 6th 1814.
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Naval war fought in Gibraltar and Cádiz between the French and the British. 33 French and Spanish ships led by Admiral Pierre de Villenueve fought 27 British ships under Admiral Horatio Nelson. Villenueve drew a plan to attack British territory but the British proved their naval supperiority and France and Spain lost numerous naval armies. -
Battle that happened in the city of Austerlitz, Moravia, nowadays Czech Republic, where Napoleon's army defeated an army of Russians and Austrians under general M.I. Kutuzov. This battle forced Austria to make peace with France and kept Prussia temporarily out of the anti French alliance.
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Battle fought in the city of Leipzig between Napoleon's army and Austrian, German, Russian and Swedish troops on the other side. This battle was also called the Battle of Nations. In this battle, Napoleon drew a plan to take Berlin, but failed and was forced to withdraw west of the Elbe river. After a long fight, the French were pushed back to Leipzig's suburbs. This defeat meant a great loss for Napoleon's power in Central Europe and was one of the most significant battles of Napoleon's reign.
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This battle was Napoleon's final defeat and marked the end of the conflicts between France and the rest of Europe. It was fought near Brussels between the French troops and the German, Belgian, British and Dutch ones. A year earlier, the forces of the coalition had captured Paris. The British led by the Duke of Wellington took a position of advantage after his 68000 troops had went against Napoleon's 72000. The coalition won the battle on June 22nd 1815, Napoleon abdicated to the French trone.