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French Revolution
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Convening the Estate General
This was the first in 175 years, Louis XVI wanted to propse taxes on the nobles, because of this he had to call the estates general. The third estates creates the National Assembly -
Tennis Court Oath
This is when the newly form National Assembly made the first and second estaters who were with the king that day to take an oath in a indoor tennis court -
Storming of the Bastille
They stormed the Bastille for ammo and gun podwer for their stolen guns -
Great Fear
This starts a fearful era for the thrid estates during the start of the French Revolution -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" were passed by the National Assembly. This presented to the world a summary of the ideals and principles of the Revolution. -
Women's March to Versailles
The women of the third estate march to Versailles to try to get lower bread prices so that their families won't strave -
Louis and Marie’s flight to Varennes
This was an important part of the French Revolution during which King Louis XVI of France, his wife Marie Antoinette attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris -
Constitution of 1791
The short-lived French Constitution of 1791 was the second written constitution of France -
Brunswick Manifesto
The Brunswick Manifesto threatened that if the French royal family were harmed, then French civilians would be harmed -
National Convention
During the French Revolution, the National Convention, in France, comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly -
Directory
Directory was a body of five Directors that held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate -
Napoleon Bonaparte
General Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the French Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate -
Concordat of 1801
Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France -
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803 -
Napoleon Code
The Code, with its stress on clearly written and accessible law, was a major step in replacing the previous patchwork of feudal laws -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
Napoleon Bonaparte was given the title Emperor on May 18th 1804 by the French Senate and was crowned emperor of the French on December 2nd 1804 at the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, in Paris -
Battle of Trafalgar
The 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
The Continental System was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars -
Continental System
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 French invasion of Russia of 1812 was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. It reduced the French and allied invasion forces -
Exile to Elba
Following the Treaty of Fontainebleau, French emperor Napoleon I was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication in 1814 and arrived at Portoferraio on May 3, 1814 to begin his exile there -
Battle of Waterloo
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 -
Exile to St. Helena
Napoleon disembarked in St. Helena with those followers who were voluntarily accompanying him into exile