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It was the first National Constituent Assembly created in France during the early stages of the French Revolution. This assembly made possible many reforms that changed the course and history of the country.
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Meeting of the three estates in France, mobilized by King Louis XVI to talk and fight against the financial and social crisis in the country. It ended when the third estate broke up from their authority and formed into a National assembly. This event spearheaded the French revolution. -
This happened because on the morning of June 20, 1789, when the national assembly had just been created, the deputies were not allowed to enter into the meeting room. They looked for another room in which the 577 deputies could meet, which was a tennis court of the palace of Versailles. They took this attitude of the king Louis XVII and his aides towards them as hostile, and there they promised to be united until a constitution equitable to all citizens was drafted and implemented.
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Crucial moment at the beggining of the french revolution, event that consisted on the entrance of people from the third estate into the Bastille, that was a prison in which there were important prisoners and weapons.
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The August Decrees were a series of measures implemented by the National Assembly in the context of the French Revolution, which sought to address social inequality, feudal and noble privileges and the system of serfdom. These 19 decrees marked the difference between the old regime and the ideas of the new society that was emerging in France.
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This Declaration was made by the Constituent Assembly, it was a very important document and although it created challenges in the French citizenship, emphasized a more democratic and equitable society in the country.
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The Legislative Assembly was the governing body during 1791 to 1792 in France. This assembly replaced the National Constituent Assembly, it was created as a result of the Constitution of 1791 which established a Constitutional monarchy with the king Louis XVI. This assembly made many reforms to ensure equality to the society of that time.
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Decisive moment when King Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette and their children tried to escape from Paris on the night of the 20th to the 21st, they only managed to reach Varennes. The National Assembly tried to defend the king by saying that he had been kidnapped, but the people still thought that he had tried to escape of his own free will and that made the public lose confidence in their monarch and gain hatred towards him.
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In this 1st French Republic there were many forms of goverment and periods, such as the hate and downfall of the French Monarchy, the creation of the National Assembly and the Reign of Terror, the creation of the Directory, the Consulate and Napoleon's rise to the power. The Republic ended in the 14th of october in 1804 when it was proclamed the Empire by Napoleon Bonaparte..
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France's Reign of Terror happened during the control of the National Convention. Paris was beset by food riots and mass hunger, but the new Convention did little to stop the conflict. The Convention made the Committee of Public Safety, which was given a great task to solve many of the problems they were happening, instead they implemented the feared Reign of Terror and killed many of the enemies of the Republic and they started murdering people by using the guillotine method.
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The Assembly declared the war against Austria as a prevention measure, they felt preasure from other monarchs because they wanted to take control over the situation in France in the name of the king Louis XVI but he did not wanted to share the power. The king aimed the war in order to change the dynamics of the French Revolution in his favor, and to gain a good popularity among other territories.
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The enraged people and the National Guardsmen headed for the Tuileries Palace while singing the Marseillaise on August 10th. Parliament had not decided whether it wanted to depose Brunswick before August 9th. The assailants outnumbered the palace guards, but the king and his family left to go to the National Assembly to seek refuge.
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A cabinet containing evidence of the king's counterrevolutionary beliefs and his messages and letters with foreign powers was discovered in the Tuileries palace. He was judged for treason and executed at the guillotine on January 21, 1793, although his wife, Marie Antoinette, was executed in the same way nine months later. -
He was arrested and executed on July 28th of1794, along with twenty-one companions who supported him in front of a large crowd of people. His death was followed by a reaction that removed the regime of the Terror and shattered the revolutionary government, which was replaced by the more conservative Directory
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The Directory was the penultimate form of government in place during the French Revolution. It began after the execution of Robespierre and took shape thanks to the Constitution created in 1795, this constitution sought to prevent a new beginning of a dictatorship. The directory was in charge of judging some of those guilty in the past. In the end, due to the protests of the monarchists, the period in which the directory governed ended because of a coup d'état led by Napoleon Bonaparte.
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It was a period of history in France and Europe, started with Napoleon's coup d'état that established the Consulate and ended with his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.In this period he centralized government administration, a system of higher education, a central bank, laws..etc. The Napoleonic Wars occurred as a preemptive measure so that the countries of Europe would not attempt to suppress revolutionary France,later changed and became France's goal of European conquest.
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During this period, Napoleon Bonaparte, as First Consul, served as the head of a more liberal, authoritarian, autocratic and centralized republican government in France, but without declaring himself head of state. There was also a second and third Consul which were Cambacérès, and Lebrun. Many reforms were made to ensure the good of the French population.
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It was established in 1804 with Napoleon Bonaparte as the Emperor of the French Empire. It conquered many parts of Europe as well many colonies and states, Napoleon wanted to expand the glory of France along the territories. He remained a constitutional government with him as the executor of an inmense power, he turned the country into its splendor, abolishing the old feudal system, promoting the economic liberalism, making a better education system..etc. The period lasted until 1815.
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One of the most importants victories of Napoleon in which his 60.000 troops defeated 90.000 Austrians and Russians. This battle took place on Austerlitz (Moravia), after the French had entered to Vienna and went after the Russian and Austrian troops, and they pursued them until they reached Moravia.Two days later, Franz I of Austria agreed to avoid hostilities and allowed Alexander I to take his army back to Russia.
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This battle took place when Napoleon Bonaparte tried to conquer Europe. In this battle was foughting the British Royal Navy and the Spanish and French navy marines. This battle stablished the Bristish navy supremacy to the next 100 years.
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One of the most important Europe battles in which Napoleon´s big army was defeated. It was a result of destruction of the French power in Poland and Germany. The armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia were the ones who defeated Napoleon.
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This battle marked the definitive defeat of Napoleon's empire, the loss of his reign and the domination of France in Europe. Prussia and England, led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher, against France. Four days after the battle Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated.
