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The Bastille overtake is the most symbolic event of the revolution. The Bastille represented the power of the king and the absolute monarchy. It was taken by the Parisians. -
The declaration of the rights of man and citizen is a text characteristic of the French revolution, where we observe the fundamental rights of individuals. However, women are not taken into account, which is incoherent for a text of equality. -
Constitution of 1791, the French constitution drawn up by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It retains the monarchy, but sovereignty is effectively in the hands of the Legislative Assembly, elected through an indirect voting system.
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King Louis XVI tries to flee to Austria where his wife was born. However, he got caught in France. This caused anger and disappointment from the French people.
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Armed revolutionaries in Paris, increasingly in conflict with the French monarchy, stormed the Tuileries Palace. The conflict led France to abolish the monarchy. -
We go from a constitutional monarchy to a republic. This period is marked by the death of the king, the Terror and the instability of the government. It ends with the coup d'etat of Bonaparte.
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The reign of Terror was one of the most important events of the French Revolution. It was originally carried out to stop supposed threats to revolution but ended up displaying the excesses of the revolution and the heights of violence. In this period died a lot of important figures, such as Olympe de Gouges, who is one of the first french feminists. She fought for the Declaration of the rights of women. It ended when Robespierre was removed from power and executed.
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The National Convention enacted a law abolishing slavery in the French colonies. -
By the end of the next day, Robespierre was executed in the Place de la Revolution, where King Louis XVI had been executed a year earlier. He was executed by guillotine, like the others. -
The french revolutionary government set up the directory by the Constituion of the year III. It included a bicameral legislature known as the "Corps Législatif". This was a government very unstable, for this reason it ended four years later, with the Napoleon's coup.
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Napoleon Bonaparte take the power in France, and became the first consul. For most historians, this was the end of the French Revolution. This bloodless coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. -
The Consulate was the toplevel 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 1804. It was composed by three consuls. Also, the consulate had full power, and elections were ended. Napoleon assumed the position of First Consul and obtained near dictatorial powers. The consulate made the French government more efficient and eliminated most traces of class and privilege.
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This was an agreement reached between Napoleon Bonaparte, papal and clerical representatives in both Rome and Paris, defining the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France and ending the breach caused by the church reforms and confiscations enacted during the French Revolution.
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The promulgation of the civil code or the Napoleonic code was promulgated during the Consulat. Bonaparte, the first consul, was the main investigator of this promulgation.
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The First French Empire, also known as Napoleonic France, was an empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe in the early 19th century. A series of wars collectively known as the Napoleonic Wars expanded French influence in Western Europe and much of Poland. At its peak in 1812, the French Empire consisted of 130 provinces with a population of 44 million.
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Napoleon was crowned Emperor of the French at Notre-Dame de Paris in Paris. Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head. It marked the beginning of the Empire and it is considered a transparently masterminded piece of modern propaganda.
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The creation of the baccalaureat in napoleon's empire allows a unification of the country. -
The French invasion of Russia was initiated by Napoleon to force Russia to re-enter the continental blockade of Britain. Napoleon's invasion of Russia is one of the most studied military operations in history and is ranked as one of the deadliest in world history. It is characterized by a huge loss of human life. However, the cold climate and heavy snow complicated the French army, many died and France was defeated. -
Napoleon was forced to abdicate in April 1814 after his unsuccessful invasion of Russia resulted in a broad European alliance against him. In the Treaty of Fontainebleau, Napoleon abdicated the throne and renounced his heirs' claim to any future throne in France. -
The abdication of Napoleon led to the re-establishment of the monarchy: it was the Restoration. Louis XVIII ascended the throne on April 6, 1814. This was until mars 1st 1815, when Napoleon Ier arrives again.
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The congress of Vienna was an international diplomatic conference. It aims to stop the revolution and to rebuild europe which was deeply upset by the wars led in France. -
The Hundred Days started when Napoleon returned from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815. After the defeat of the Waterloo campaign against British, Napoleon abdicates on June 22, 1815, thus this starts a new monarchy period.
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The Restoration of Bourbon is a period in French history from the first fall of Napoleon on May 3, 1814 to the July Revolution on July 26, 1830, but was The Hundred Days War was interrupted, during which the Bourbons were returned to the French monarchy. Brother of the executed King Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X,successively ascended the throne, establishing a conservative government aimed at restoring the ceremonies of the old system, if not all institutions.
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An attack against the insurgents on the island of Chios caused a massacre of 23,000 and the enslavement of 10,000. The massacre received a strong echo in Europe. France, the United Kingdom and Russia decided to intervene militarily in favor of the independence of Greece. -
The colonization in France starts in 1830 with Algeria. -
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution of 1821 or Greek Revolution, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. -
Prepared in great secrecy and signed by Charles X on July 25, the four ordinances suspending the freedom of the press, dissolving the Chamber, and restricting the right to vote, triggered the July insurrection. Journalists, the most directly affected, were the first to react.
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The July Monarchy was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under Louis Philippe I, starting on 26 July 1830, with the July Revolution of 1830, and ending 23 February 1848, with the Revolution of 1848.
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The French Revolution of 1830, between July 27 and July 29, also known as the July Revolution or Trois Glorieuses in French, was a second French Revolution after the First, that of 1789. It led to the overthrow of King Charles X, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascent of his cousin Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans. During the night of July 27 to 28 the movement became revolutionary: everywhere barricades were put. -
The Victorian era in British history was characterized by a society that was based on class, more and more people with the right to vote, a growing country and economy, and Britain became the most powerful empire in the world. In the Victorian era, Britain was a powerful country with a rich culture. It has a stable government, a growing state, and growing franchises. It also controls a sprawling empire and thrives in part because of its level of industrialization and imperial holdings.
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The First Opium War was a series of military engagements fought between Britain and the Qing dynasty between 1839 and 1842. The immediate issue was Britain's determination to force opium sales on China after China's seizure of opium stocks at Canton to stop the banned opium trade, -
The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Springtime of Nations, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe starting in 1848. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in European history to date.
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The French Revolution of 1848, also known as the February Revolution, was a revolution in France that ended the July Monarchy and established the French Second Republic. It sparked a wave of revolutions in 1848 in Europe. -
The French Second Republic, officially the French Republic, was the republican government of France that existed between 1848 and 1852. It was established in February 1848, with the February Revolution that overthrew the July Monarchy, and ended in December 1852, after the 1851 coup d'état and when president Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon III and initiated the Second French Empire.
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The Second Empire was the 18-year Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the Second and the Third Republic of France. Historians in the 1930s and 1940s often disparaged the Second Empire as a precursor of fascism. In its early years, the empire was authoritarian but enjoyed economic growth and pursued a favorable foreign policy.
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Louis Napoleon , in addition to being the president of France, was also the second Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew of Napoleon I, he was the last monarch to rule over France. -
The Second Opium War, was a war pitting the British Empire and the French Empire against the Qing dynasty of China that lasted from 1856 to 1860. -
France lost, in a campaign to Mexico in Puebla. It wanted conquer the territory just like US. -
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. This conflict caused the lost of the region Alsace-Lorraine to the French. -
The French Third Republic was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War.
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At the end of the XIX century, Africa had been colonized by most of the powerful european countries. Such as France or the Great Britain.
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The Fashoda Incident, also known as the Fashoda Crisis, was an international incident and the climax of imperialist territorial disputes between Britain and France in East Africa, occurring in 1898. This event will allie these two countries.
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In 1911 Frederick Winslow Taylor published his monograph “The Principles of Scientific Management.” Taylor argued that flaws in a given work process could be scientifically solved through improved management methods and that the best way to increase labor productivity was to optimize the manner in which the work was done. Taylor’s methods for improving worker productivity can still be seen today at companies, in modern militaries, and even in the world of professional sports.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb.
