Timelines

By Edgar Tostado

  • The Great Fear in the countryside

  • King Louis XVI calls the Estates General

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    History

  • The Tennis Court Oath

  • The storming of the Bastille

  • The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen

  • The Bread March on Bersailles

  • The constitution of 1791 sets up a limited constitutional monarcy in France

  • The Legislative Assembly declares war on Austria

  • Louis XVI is executed

  • Robespierre's Reign of Terror

  • The Directory is installed

  • Napoleon's coupd'etat, overthrowing the Directory

  • Napoleon is declared first Consul

  • Napoleon is declared Emperor

  • Battle at Cape Trafalgar

  • The continental System is implanted

  • The continental system is implemented

  • Napoleon is defeatedin Russia

  • Napoleon is defeated at Leipzig

  • Napoleon is exiled to Elba

  • Napoleonis exiled to St. Helena

  • Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo