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American Revolution start
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America. They defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War in alliance with France and others. -
Calling of the Estates General
King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General because the third estate is unhappy because the first and third estate don’t have to pay taxes. But all estates only get one vote so the first and second vote to keep things the same while the third estate votes to tax the first and second estates. The third estate the storms out and goes to a tennis court and praises a oath, the tennis court oath. Thus beginning the National Assembly. -
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FORMATION of National Assembly
The formation of the national was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate. -
Tennis Court Oath (Happens during FORMATION of National Assembly
On June 20th, 1789, the members of the Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established" -
Attack on the Bastille (Happend during FORMATION of National Assembly)
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. The prison contained just seven inmates at the time of its storming, but was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy's abuses of power; its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution. -
French Women force Louis XVI to leave Versailles
The march began when women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of October 5, 1789, were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. The market woman and their various allies grew into a mob of thousands and the stormed Versailles. -
Declaration of war against Austria
France eventually issued an ultimatum demanding that Austria renounce any hostile alliances and withdraw its troops from the French border. The reply was evasive and the Assembly voted for war on 20 April 1792, after a long list of grievances presented by foreign minister Dumouriez -
Declaration of war against Austria
France eventually issued an ultimatum demanding that Austria renounce any hostile alliances and withdraw its troops from the French border. The reply was evasive and the Assembly voted for war on 20 April 1792, after a long list of grievances presented by foreign minister Dumouriez -
Declaration of war on Austria
France eventually issued an ultimatum demanding that Austria renounce any hostile alliances and withdraw its troops from the French border. The reply was evasive and the Assembly voted for war on 20 April 1792, after a long list of grievances presented by foreign minister Dumouriez -
National Convention is Formed
The National Convention was the second government of the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly. -
National Convention is Formed
The National Convention was the second government of the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly. -
National Convention is formed
The National Convention was the second government of the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly -
King Louis XVI is executed
The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Revolution in Paris. It was a major event of the Revolution -
King Louis XVI is executed
The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Revolution in Paris. It was a major event of the Revolution. -
Louis XVI is executed
The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Revolution in Paris. It was a major event of the Revolution -
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Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a period when the Jacobins took over. Between June 1793 and July 1794, there were 16,594 official death sentences in France, however 2,639 were in Paris. -
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Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a period when the Jacobins took over. Between June 1793 and July 1794, there were 16,594 official death sentences in France, however 2,639 were in Paris. -
**Happens during Reign of Terror** The Thermidorian Reaction
in the French Revolution, the parliamentary revolt initiated on 9 Thermidor, which resulted in the fall of Maximilien Robespierre and the collapse of revolutionary fervor and the Reign of Terror in France. -
The Thermidorian Reaction
In the French Revolution, the parliamentary revolt initiated on 9 Thermidor, which resulted in the fall of Maximilien Robespierre and the collapse of revolutionary fervor and the Reign of Terror in France. -
Directory is formed
The Directory was a group of five men who held the executive power in France according to the constitution of the year III (1795) of the French Revolution. -
Napoleon takes power
The coup of 18 Brumaire brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France, and, in the view of most historians, ended the French Revolution. This bloodless coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. -
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Napoleon Invades Russia
The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian Campaign, began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army
