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Convening the Estates General
King Louis XVI called Estates-General meeting, June 17 Third Estate breaks away from Estates-General, establishes itself as National Assembly -
National Convention
The National Assembly swept away feudal privileges of the first and second estate making all citizens equal. -
Tennis Court Oath
A mob of people meet in the tennis court at the wouldnt leave until the king signed the new constitution. -
Storming of the Bastille
Poeple wanted gun powder for their weponds and went to the King for help, -
Great Fear
When rumors circulated through the countryside and from town to town that the nobles were paying men to terrorize the peasants. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Declaration of the Rights of Man was created so that all social classes have equal rights and freedom. -
Women’s march to Versailles
Women got tired of the raising coast on bread, Many women couldnt afford to feed their family. So a mob of them gathered outside of Versailles to complain to the King -
Louis and Marie’s flight to Varennes
King Louis wanted help from a foreign army so he and his wife can get control of their country again. They got cought and the people sent them back to Paris -
Constitution of 1791
The creation of a consitutional monarchy. Then national convention legislative body, the King and the Ministers made up the executive branch and the judicial branch was independent from the other two. -
Brunswick Manifesto
When Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, commander of the Allied Army -
Reign of Terror
towards the end of the terror a lot of the people who died were considered Robespierre's enemies -
Napoleon Bonaparte takes over
Napoleon takes over France as a dictator. -
Directory
The new constitution created the Directoire and the first bicameral legislature in France. -
Concordat of 1801
Napoleon signed an agreement with Pope Pius VII reestablishing the Church in France -
Louisiana Purchase
the United States purchased from France the Louisiana Territory, -
Napoleonic Code
The Code, with its stress on clearly written and accessible law, was a major step in replacing the previous feudal laws. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. -
Battle of Trafalgar
Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition. -
Continental System
Napoleon Bonaparte issued the Berlin decrees which marked the start of what became to be known as the Continental System. -
Peninsular War
The Peninsular War was a 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
The Freanch invated Russia, This was the turing point to the Patriotic Wars -
Exile to Elba
Napoleon dethroned Emperor left France for the isle of Elba, where he was exiled under the terms of the Treaty of Fontainebleau -
Exile to St. Helena
The European powers were not going to take any chances on Napoleon's possible return. They exiled Napoleon to the island of St. Helena - a barren, wind-swept rock located in the South Atlantic Ocean. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition,
