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Treaty of Paris
Ended the American Revolution. Signed in 1783 by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. This created the United States as a new and independent country. -
March on Versailles
Angry mob of almost 7,000 working women armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the French Revolution. -
Call of the Estate General
After arguing over how they would vote for several days, the third estate started to take matters into their own hands. they met on their own and invited members of the other estates to join them. -
Tennis Court Oath
Louis XVI assembled the Estates-General, a national assembly that represented the three “estates” of French people (the nobles) the clergy, and the commons. -
Storming of the Bastille
A great crowd armed with makeshift weapons started to get around the Bastille. Launay’s men hold the mob back, but as more and more Parisians were converging on the Bastille. A white flag was raised to show the surrender over the fortress -
Execution of the King
Louis was convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and punished to death by a majority. On January 21, he walked steadfastly to the guillotine and was executed. Nine months later, Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason by a tribunal, soon she followed her husband to the guillotine. -
Execution of Robespierre
Robespierre was elected to the Committee of Public Safety.During his leadership, the committee came to express virtual dictatorial control over the French government. Faced with the threat of civil war and foreign invasion. Revolutionary government inaugurated the Reign of Terror in September. In the orgy of bloodshed, Robespierre purged many of his political opponents. -
Reign of Terror
(September 5 1793- July 28 1794)
After the death of Louis XVI in 1793, a Reign of Terror began. First victim was Marie Antoinette: imprisoned with her children after separated from Louis, set off a parade of prominent and not very good citizens to their deaths. The guillotine, a new way of execution was put to its job. Women were encouraged to sit and knit during trials and executions. The Revolutionary Tribunal execution of 2,400 people in Paris July 1794. Across France 30,000 people died. -
Haitian Revolution
Napoleon announced his intention to reintroduce slavery on Haiti, and Dessalines which led to a new revolt against the French rule with the help from the British. -
Coronation of Napoleon I
one of the greatest military strategists in history, rapidly rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army during the late 1790s. After becoming first consul in February 1800, he reorganized his armies and beat Austria. 1802, established Napoleonic Code, a new system of French law, and in 1804 he established the French empire -
Battle of Waterloo
Marked the final overthrow of Napoleon Bonaparte, who defeated much of Europe in the early 19th century. Napoleon rose through the ranks of the French army during the French Revolution, took control of the French government in 1799 and became emperor in 1804. -
Napoleonic Wars
1803 – November 20, 1815
Series of conflicts fought between France under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte and a number of European nations between 1799 and 1815. They followed on from the War of the First Coalition, engaged in nearly all European nations in a bloody struggle, a struggle that also spilled over into Egypt, America and South America. -
Mexico Gains Independence
Spanish Viceroy Juan de O’Donojú signs the Treaty of Córdoba, which approves a plan to make Mexico an independent constitutional monarchy.
