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Absolutism and the French Revolution
The timespan of ow long the French Revolution and Absolutism lasted in France -
event in Napoleon Bonaparte early career
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. ... As a boy, Napoleon attended school in mainland France, where he learned the French language, and went on to graduate from a French military academy in 1785. -
Enlightenment and revolution inspiring France
The American Revolution (1775-89) provided French reformers with a working example of revolution and a successfully implemented constitution. The ideas of the French Revolution were also shaped by grievances that were specific to 18th century France. Some of the key ideas of the French Revolution are summarised below. -
Enlightenment and revolution inspiring France
over amount of spending from King Louis XIV put the country on the brink of bankruptcy -
event related to time of monarchy
the Estates-General convened at Versailles, the highly public debate over its voting process had erupted into hostility between the three orders, eclipsing the original purpose of the meeting and the authority of the man who had convened it. Tennis Court Oath -
Bastille is stormed
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 centre of Paris. Attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. -
event related to angry mobs/barricades
During the winter and spring of 1789, BREAD RIOTS were especially common. In fact, the riots that resulted in the fall of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 and helped move forward the early stages of the French Revolution began as a search for arms and grain. -
event related to the declaration of the rights of man
Before it could even get started it had to be passed and approved which it was passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, -
event related to the declaration of the rights of man
Before it could get passed by anybody it had to be actually MADE which happened...The Declaration was drafted by the Abbé Sieyès and the Marquis de Lafayette, in consultation with Thomas Jefferson -
event related to angry mobs/barricades
The Women's March on Versailles an angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women – armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets – marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intensifying French Revolution. To the beat of a drum, the women chanted “Bread! -
event related to time of monarchy
King Louis XVI was executed by the people on the guillotine -
event related to the terror/committee of public safety
France was ruled by a group of men called the Committee of Public Safety Robespierre was elected to the Committee of Public Safety formed to protect France against its enemies, foreign and domestic, and to oversee the government. Under his leadership, the committee came to exercise virtual dictatorial control over the French government. -
event related to the terror of public safety
Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution -
related to napoleon Bonaparte's time as emperor
Before he could become emperor he had to do something in order to get there and thats exactly what he did after he seized political control in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor -
event in Napoleon Bonaparte early career
Napoléon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars. He was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814 and again briefly in 1815 during the Hundred Days. Wikipedia -
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Timespan of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor
A time span of when Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor from the first time he was deemed the Emperor to when he was exiled. -
event in Napoleon Bonaparte life/death
It is known that Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled from France he was exiled to the island of Elba but he escaped to France in early 1815 and raised a new Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success before its crushing defeat at Waterloo against an allied force under Wellington on June 18, 1815. Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa. -
related to napoleon Bonaparte's time as emperor
The Hundred Days marked Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 111 days). -
Event related to Napoleon's life/death
Napoleon Bonaparte was buried on May 5, 1821,in Longwood House, Longwood, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha his cause of death was oddly enough a stomach ulcer so he did not get executed or die in battle he died due to a stomach ulcer.
