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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, was negotiated between the United States and Great Britain. it marked the end of the revolutionary war and recognized America's independence as its own country. -
Call of the Estate General
King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General. It was the first meeting of the Estates General called since 1614. He called the meeting because the French government was having financial problems. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Third Estate, declared itself the National Assembly and took an oath to force a new constitution on the king. -
Storming of the Bastille
At dawn on July 14, a great crowd armed with muskets, swords, and various makeshift weapons began to gather around the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. The Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops stormed and dismantled the Bastille. -
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March on Versailles
an angry mob of nearly 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 intensifying French Revolution. The women chanted “Bread! Bread!” for, despite the fertile soil, the people of Paris was starving without much sufficient food. -
Execution of the King
After being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. -
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Reign of Terror
A period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and Jacobins. -
Execution of Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. The day after his arrest, Robespierre and 21 of his followers were guillotined before a cheering mob in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. -
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts fought between France under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte and a number of European nations. -
The Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution was a successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection by self-liberated slaves lead by Toussaint-Louverture against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign nation of Haiti. -
Coronation of Napoleon I
In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I. Becoming the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo, took place in Belgium on June 18, 1815, and marked the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. -
Mexico Gains Independence
Eleven years after the outbreak of the Mexican War of Independence, Spanish Viceroy Juan de O’Donojú signs the Treaty of Córdoba. This included a plan to make Mexico an independent constitutional monarchy.
