French Revolution

By clara.griffith2027

  • The Storming of the Bastille

    fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to besiege the Bastille successfully. This old fortress had been used since 1659 as a state prison

  • The Estates- General Meeting

    a meeting of the three estates of France that took place in 1789 and is considered the first event of the French Revolution
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    The French Revolution

  • The Tennis Court Oath

    the members of the French Third Estate in a tennis court on the initiative of Jean Joseph Mounier. Their vow "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom is established" became a pivotal event in the French Revolution

  • The Great Fear

    was a general panic that occurred from 22 July to 6 August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution.

  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

    Men are born free and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be based only on public utility. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression

  • The execution of King Louis XVI

    Louis XVI, former King of France since the abolition of the monarchy, was publicly executed on 21 January 1793 during the French Revolution at the Place de la Révolution in Paris.
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    Reign of Terror

  • Napoleon Bonaparte’s Coup d’etat

    coup d'état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. The event is often viewed as the effective end of the French Revolution
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    The First Empire (Napoleon)

  • Congress of Vienna

    The Congress of Vienna was a meeting of European nations that set out a strategy to maintain peace and stability throughout the continent. It gathered in 1814 following the first defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and namesake of the Napoleonic Wars.

  • Battle of Waterloo

    The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo, marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition