The French Revolution

By s-pasingh

  • The last time the Estates General met

  • The English Bill of Rights

  • Birth of Napoleon in Corsica

  • Declaration of Independence

  • The US Constitution is signed

  • The French Revolution begins

  • George Washington made president of USA

  • The National Assembly

  • The Tennis Court Oath

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • Constitution of 1791...

    ...set up a constitutional monarchy.

  • Old order destroyed

  • Napoleon became a captain

  • Period: to

    Reign of Terror

  • Execution of Louis XVI

  • Robespierre is guillotined

  • Constitution of 1795...

    ...split the powers of the government and implemented checks and balances for power.
  • Period: to

    The Directory

  • Napoleon's coup d'état

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • Napoleon crowned Emperor

  • Hidalgo leads Mexican independence movement

  • Period: to

    The Russian Invasion...

    ... that failed.

  • Battle of Waterloo

  • Death of Napoleon

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