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Convening the Estates General
There was a seperate Assembly for each estate, and ended after the French Revolution. -
Tennis Court Oath
a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General. -
Storming of Bastille
During the reign of Louis XVI, France faced a economic crisis, and caused efforts to invade Britain. -
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French Revolution
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Great Fear
peasants armed themselves in self-defense, in some areas attacked manor houses. In some areas it was believed that a foreign force were burning the crops in the fields while in other areas it was believed that bandits were burning buildings -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
defines the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. Influenced by the doctrine of "natural right", valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself. -
Women's March to Versallies
The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris, rioting because of the high prices of bread, and forced the king and his family back to Paris with them. -
Louis and Marie’s flight to Varennes
Louis, Marie, and their family, attempted to escape in order to initiate a counter-revolution, but did it unsucessfully. -
Consitution of 1791
the 2nd written consitution of France, one of the things it said was that they were adopting and astablishing popular soverenity. -
Napoleon Bonaparte Takes Over
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Brunswick Manifesto
commander of the Allied Army, threatened that if the French royal family were harmed, then French civilians would be harmed. -
National Convention
It held executive power in France during the first years of the French First Republic. It was succeeded by the Directory and began commencing on 2 November 1795. -
The Terror or Reign of Terror
Directed by the Committee of Public Safety, the Revolutionary government's Terror was essentially a war dictatorship, instituted to rule the country in a national emergency. -
Directory
held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate. -
Napoleon Bonaparte Takes Over
he defeatsAustrian and Sardinian forces. A good leader but was eventually defeated by Lord Horatio Nelson. -
Concordat of 1801
It solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and brought back most of its civil status. -
Louisiana Purchase
France purchased a new piece of land, Louisiana. The United States paid France 15 millio dollars to own that land. -
Napoleonic Code
The code has been a major influence on many civil law jurisdictions worldwide, forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified. -
Napoleon Becomes Emperor
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Napoleon Becomes Emperor
Established hegemony over most of the continental Europe and wanted to spread ideas of the French Revolution. In his sucess in these wars he has been known as one of the worlds greatest military commanders. -
Battle of Trafalgar
fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition and of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Continental System
It was a large-scale embargo against British trade -
Pepninsular War
war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Invasion of Russia
turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. It reduced the French and allied invasion forces (the Grande Armée) to a tiny fraction of their initial strength and triggered a major shift in European politics as it dramatically weakened French hegemony in Europe. -
Exile to Elba
after the 6th Coalition defeated Napoleon they exiled him to Elba. -
Exile to St. Helena
After his last defeat at Waterloo and his subsequent second Exile, Napoleon spent ten weeks on board with the HMS Northumberland as it sailed to the far-flung reaches of th South Atlanic Ocean. -
Battle of Waterloo
An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher.
