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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.The preliminary articles of peace were signed by Adams, Franklin, Jay, and Henry Laurens for the United States and Richard Oswald for Great Britain on November 30, 1782. The final treaty was signed on September 3, 1783, and ratified by the Continental Congress early in 1784.( A signing for independence) -
March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution In early October 1789 thousands of Parisians, many of them women, marched 12 miles to Versailles, the residence of Louis XVI and the location of the National Constituent Assembly. The aims of this crowd varied. -
Call of the estate
. The First Estate was the clergy, the Second Estate the nobility, and the Third Estate effectively the rest of French society.Third Estate into tolerating these slights until some progress could be made, but his diplomatic efforts accomplished little. Fed up with their mistreatment, activists and pamphleteers of the Third Estate took to the streets in protest. -
Storming of the Bastille
On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule .Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. -
Tennis Court Oath
On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath vowing The Estates-General had been called to address the country's fiscal and agricultural crisis, but immediately after convening in May 1789, they had become bogged down in issues of representation—particularly, whether they would vote by head or by order. -
Execution of the King
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. ... There, Louis was forced to accept the constitution of 1791, which reduced him to a mere figurehead. Which caused him to be executed. -
Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror, or The Terror, is the label given by some historians to a period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established.The Terror had an economic side embodied in the Maximum, a price-control measure demanded by the lower classes of Paris, and a religious side that was embodied in the program of de-Christianization pursued by the followers of Jacques Hébert. -
Execution of Robespierre
The same day, 28 July 1794, in the afternoon, Robespierre was guillotined without trial in the Place de la Révolution. His brother Augustin, Couthon, Saint-Just, Hanriot, and twelve other followers, among them the cobbler Antoine Simon, the jailor of Louis-Charles, Dauphin of France, were also executed. -
Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution was a successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule, Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign nation of Haiti.The Haitian Revolution has often been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. It is certainly the only servile uprising that led to the creation of an independent nation, Haiti. Slaves had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony -
Coronation of Napoleon I
It marked "the instantiation of modern empire" and was a "transparently masterminded piece of modern propaganda Napoleon wanted to establish legitimacy of his imperial reign, with its new royal family and new nobility. He designed a new coronation ceremony that was unlike the ceremony used for the kings of France. In the traditional coronation, the act of the king's consecration was emphasised, and anointment was conferred by the archbishop of Reims in the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Reims. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo, which took place in Belgium on June 18, 1815, marked the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. Napoleon rose through the ranks of the French army during the French Revolution, seized control of the French government in 1799 and became emperor in 1804. Through a series of wars, he expanded his empire across western and central Europe -
Napoleonic Wars (Will be a time Span)
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom.When the coup of 18–19 Brumaire brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power.. In Holland a capitulation had been signed for the withdrawal of the Anglo-Russian expeditionary force. -
Mexico Gains Independence
The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict, and the culmination of a political and social process which ended the rule of Spain in 1821 in the territory of New Spain
