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French economy
The French economy was in deep trouble. Bad harvest and a slowdown in manufacturing led to food shortages, rising prices for food and unemployment. -
Declaration of the rights of a Man and the Citizen
Is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. -
Storming of the Bastille
On 14 July 1789, 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. -
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French Revolution
A result of the French Revolution was the end of the French monarchy. The revolution began with a meeting of the Estates General in Versailles, and ended when Napoleon Bonaparte took power. -
Fall of the Jacobins
The Jacobins were the members of the political group of the French Revolution, whose headquarters were in Paris.
They were republicans, defenders of popular sovereignty, therefore they advocated universal suffrage; their vision of the indivisibility of the nation led them to defend a strong and centralized state. -
Napoleon Bonaparte emperor
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French soldier and statesman, Republican general during the French Revolution and the Directory. -
Maximum extent of the Napoleonic Empire
The French Empire had 130 departments and a population of 44 million people, it ruled over 90 million subjects, maintained an extensive military presence in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Poland, and counted Austria and Prussia as nominal allies. -
Congress of Vienna , Holy Alliance
Agreement signed at the Congress of Vienna by the crowned heads of Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Its purpose was to re-establish the principle of hereditary rule and to suppress democratic and nationalist movements, which sprung up in the wake of the French Revolution. -
Liberal revolution in France
Was the series of revolutionary events that ended the July Monarchy.
Led to the creation of the French Second Republic. It sparked a wave of revolutions in 1848 in Europe. -
Democratic revolutions in France and in other western European countries
Huge Social, Political and Economic changes took place. The revolutionary ideas had been spread across Europe. The Monarchy in all countries were damaged by conquest. Nationalism became a powerful force in all European Countries -
Liberal and nationalist revolutions in the Austrian Empire
End of absolute monarchy Representative democracy Decentralization and independence Land reform -
Italian unification
Italian Unification was the historical process that, throughout the 19th century, led to the union of the various states into which the Italian peninsula was divided, most of them linked to dynasties considered "non-Italian", such as the Habsburgs or the Bourbons. -
German unification
The unification of Germany was a historical process that took place in the second half of the 19th century in Central Europe and ended with the creation of the German Empire on January 18, 1871, bringing together various hitherto independent states.