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English Bill of Rights
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1689 English Bill of Rights (BR/US)
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1763 Seven Years’ War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France (BR/FR)
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1763 Seven Years’ War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France (BR/FR)
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18 Nov 1765, Stamp Act passed by British Parliament (BR)
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1765 Stamp Act passed by British Parliament (BR)
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1767 Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists (BR/US)
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1770 Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops (US)
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1774 First Continental Congress (US)
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American Revolution: 1775-1783
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1776 Declaration of Independence (US)
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1778 American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance. (US/FR)
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1789 Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America (US)
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789 National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man (FR)
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1789 Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris (FR)
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French Revolution: 1791-1799
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Haiti Revolution: 1791-1804
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1791 Beheading of King Louis XVI (FR)
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1791 Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue (Haiti)
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1792 France declares war on Austria (FR)
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1793 All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British (Haiti)
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1793 All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British (Haiti)
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1793 France declares war on Great Britain (BR/FR)
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1794 Toussaint leads troops against the British (Haiti)
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1794 Toussaint leads troops against the British (Haiti)
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1797 French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint (Haiti)
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1797 French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint (Haiti)
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797 French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint (Haiti)
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1797 French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint (Haiti)
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1798 Toussaint negotiates peace with the British (Haiti)
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1798 Toussaint negotiates peace with the British (Haiti)
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1798 Toussaint negotiates peace with the British (Haiti)
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1798 Toussaint negotiates peace with the British (Haiti)
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1801 War ends between Great Britain and France (BR/FR)
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1801 War ends between Great Britain and France (BR/FR)
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1801 Constitution for Haiti
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1802 General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery (FR)
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1803 French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence (Haiti)
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1803 New declaration of war between Great Britain and France (BR/FR)
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1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti (Haiti)
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1804 Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France
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1808 British end the slave trade (BR)
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810 Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies (Latin America)
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1813 French expelled from Spain. (FR)
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1815 Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone (FR)
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1818 French abolish slave trade (FR)
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French abolish slave trade (FR)
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Constitution for Haiti