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Napoleon Overthrows the Directory
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. -
Louis XVI calls the Estates General
a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm summoned by Louis XVI to propose solutions to France's financial problems -
Tennis Court Oath
Menus-Plaisirs hall in Versailles, where the deputies met, but, upon finding the door locked and guarded by soldiers on , the deputies withdrew to a nearby hall in which the sport of Real Tennis was played. It was here that they made the famous Oath of the Real Tennis Room:We swear never to separate and to meet wherever circumstances require until the kingdom’s Constitution is established and grounded on solid foundations. -
Writing of the Declaration of the Rights of Men
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. -
Parisians storming the Bastille
Storming of the Bastille, iconic conflict of the French Revolution. fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France’s newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison. -
March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles was a riot that took place during this first stage of the French Revolution. It was spontaneously organized by women in the marketplaces of Paris, on the morning.They complained over the high price and scant availability of bread, marching from Paris to Versailles. -
Establishment of the New French Constitution
Constitution of 1791, French constitution created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by a system of indirect voting. -
Execution of the King and Queen
Some republicans called for the king's deposition, others for his trial for alleged treason and intended defection to the enemies of the French nation. Convicted, Louis was sent to the guillotine on January 21, 1793. Nine months later, Marie Antoinette was also convicted of treason and beheaded on October 16. -
Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety. -
Napoleon Builds an Empire
Napoleon gained success during the French Revolutionary Wars by defending France and effectively defeating the Coalition armies from 1792-1802. Napoleon became the First Consul in France by 1800 and led the French Empire into a new, and powerful, era. -
The congress of Vienna Meets
Congress of Vienna, assembly in 1814–15 that reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. five months after Napoleon I's first abdication and completed its “Final Act” in June 1815, shortly before the Waterloo campaign and the final defeat of Napoleon. -
6th Coalition Occupies Paris
he Coalition armies entered the city with Tsar Alexander I at the head of the army followed by the King of Prussia and Prince Schwarzenberg. On 2 April the French Senate passed the Acte de déchéance de deposed -
King Louis XVlll Begins His Reign
he French Revolution began in 1789 and lasted until 1794. King Louis XVI needed more money, but had failed to raise more taxes when he had called a meeting of the Estates General. This instead turned into a protest about conditions in France. -
Napoleon Defeated at Waterloo
between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher. The decisive battle of its age, it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever. -
Napoleon Invades Russia
the Grande Armée, led by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Neman River, invading Russia from present-day Poland. The result was a disaster for the French. The Russian army refused to engage with Napoleon's Grande Armée of more than 500,000 European troops.