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1813 BCE
Battle of Leipzig.
The Coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, led by Tsar Alexander I and Karl von Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the Grande Armée of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops, as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine. The expenditure of 400,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, and 133,000 casualties, making it the largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars. -
1805 BCE
Battle of Austerlitz.
was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle occurred near the town of Austerlitz in the Austrian Empire The decisive victory of Napoleon's Grande Armée at Austerlitz brought the War of the Third Coalition to a rapid end, with the Treaty of Pressburg signed by the Austrians later in the month. The battle is often cited as a tactical masterpiece, in the same league as other historic engagements like Cannae or Gaugamela -
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Battle of Trafalgar.
It was a naval battle that took place on October 21, 1805, within the framework of the third coalition initiated by the United Kingdom, Austria, Russia, Naples and Sweden to try to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte from the imperial throne and dissolve the existing French military influence in Europe. The Battle of Trafalgar took place off the coast of Cape Trafalgar, in Los Caños de Meca, a town in the Cadiz municipality of Barbate, at that time belonging to Vejer de la Frontera. -
1794 BCE
Execution of Robespierre.
He was arrested and guillotined on July 28, 1794 (10 Thermidor) along with twenty-one followers. His death was followed by a Thermidorian reaction that dismantled the Terror regime and shattered the purely revolutionary government, which was replaced by the more conservative Directory. -
1793 BCE
Execution of Louis xvi
fue uno de los acontecimientos más importantes de la Revolución francesa. Dicha ejecución fue realizada en la plaza de la Revolución (actual plaza de la Concordia), anteriormente conocida como plaza de Luis XV. La Convención Nacional había sentenciado a muerte al rey el 17 de enero en una votación realizada a viva voz por sugerencia de Marat, y en la que la pena de muerte sin condiciones se impuso por 361 votos contra 290 votos por la prisión perpetua o destierro. -
1792 BCE
Storming of the Tuileries Palace.
In August 1792 the position of the French King Louis XVI came increasingly under threat. In the event of violence being used against the royal family and the royal Palais des Tuileries the Manifeste de Brunswick threatened bloody retaliation including the destruction of Paris. The furious French population and the Revolutionaries took this as proof that their king was collaborating with the kings of Prussia and Austria. -
1792 BCE
The Assembly declares war on Austria.
Marie Antoinette heard rumors that the Girondins, now part of the king's ministry, were planning a military attack on the Austrian Netherlands. She warned her brother Leopold. The Girondin ministry pushed for war on Austria in spring 1792. At their urging, the Legislative Assembly declared war. -
1791 BCE
The Fligth to varennes
It was a significant episode of the French Revolution, in which the royal family of France had a serious decline in its effective authority, when the monarch Louis XVI and his wife and children failed in their attempt to escape abroad, disguised as an aristocratic family. Russian. When the fugitives were discovered, they were arrested in the town of Varennes and returned to Paris. -
1789 BCE
Tennis court oath
The National Assembly, also known as the Third Estate, was an ancient but little used gathering of nobles, clergy and common people. They were excluded from their regular meeting place by King Louis XVI and met instead at a nearby indoor tennis court. Here they pledged themselves to create a written constitution for France; by 1791 they would have one. -
1789 BCE
The August Decrees
The August Decrees were nineteen decrees made on 4–11 August 1789 by the National Constituent Assembly during the French Revolution. There were 18 decrees or articles adopted concerning the abolition of feudalism, other privileges of the nobility, and seigneurial rights. was a significant historical event that marked the end of the French monarchy and the beginning of the French Republic. The August Decrees eliminated the tithe as well as seigneurial rights and the privileges of the aristocracy. -
1789 BCE
Storming of the Bastille
a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. This article reporting the events of 14 July was published in an English newspaper called The World, a few days after the event took place. -
1789 BCE
The declaration of the rights of Man of the Citizen
It is one of many of the fundamental documents of the French Revolution. As its name suggests the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was a written expression of the natural rights of citizens in revolutionary France. Inspired by British and American covenants, France's declaration was the most ambitious attempt to protect individual rights in any European nation to that point. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen helped to form the foundation of the French Revolution -
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National Constituent Assembly.
was a constituent assembly in the Kingdom of France formed from the National Assembly. The Assembly took innumerable measures that profoundly changed the political and social situation of the country. Among them, the approval of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the suppression of feudalism, the appropriation of the assets of the Church and the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and, of course, the drafting of the French Constitution of 1791 stand out. . -
Formal opening of the Estates General.
The opening of the Estates General, on 5 May 1789 in Versailles, also marked the start of the French Revolution. On 4 May 1789 the last grand ceremony of the Ancien Régime was held in Versailles: the procession of the Estates General. From all over France, 1,200 deputies had arrived for the event. -
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Legislative Assembly.
was the legislature of the Kingdom of France from 1 October 1791 to 20 September 1792 during the years of the French Revolution. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention. -
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National Convention.
was the constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for the rest of its existence during the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly. Created after the great insurrection of 10 August 1792, it was the first French government organized as a republic, abandoning the monarchy altogether. -
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1st French Revolution.
was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, while the values and institutions it created remain central to French political discourse. Its causes are generally agreed to be a combination of social, political and economic factors, which the Ancien Régime proved unable to manage. -
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Derectory.
was the government of France from November 2, 1795 to November 9, 1799, during the last four years of the French Revolution. It had two legislative chambers, the Council of the Ancients and the Council of 500, and the executive power was in the hands of five Directors. -
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The Napoleonic Era.
is a period in the history of France and Europe. It is generally classified as including the fourth and final stage of the French Revolution, the first being the National Assembly, the second being the Legislative Assembly, and the third being the Directory. The Napoleonic era begins roughly with Napoleon Bonaparte's, overthrowing the Directory (9 November 1799), establishing the French Consulate, and ends during the Hundred Days and his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815). -
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The Consulate.
was the top-level Government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 10 November 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire on 18 May 1804. By extension, the term The Consulate also refers to this period of French history. -
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The Empire.
was the monarchical government established by Napoleon Bonaparte after the dissolution of the First French Republic in 1804. At its height, the Empire comprised most of Western and Central Europe, as well as possessing numerous colonial domains and client states. The regime lasted from May 18, 1804, the proclamation of Napoleon as Emperor, until July 7, 1815, the day King Louis XVIII's forces entered Paris. -
Battle of Waterloo.
in which the French army, commanded by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, faced British, Dutch and German troops, led by the Duke of Wellington.
After the return of the Emperor from his exile on the island of Elba, beginning the period known as the "Hundred Days", when the Seventh Coalition met against him, Napoleon decided to invade the Netherlands, the meeting place of the troops of the new alliance. The battle meant the final end of the Napoleonic wars.