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Moderate Phase
The moderate changes relative to the Radical Phase -
Estates General meets
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National Assembly is formed
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Citizens storm the Bastille
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Great Fear sweeps France
A wave of peasant riots and violence that swept through France. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Poor women of Paris march on Versailles
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Royal Family confined to Tuileries
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted
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Royal Family attempts to flee France
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Radical Phase
Radical leaders were able to gain power from France's problems. -
Paris mob invades Tuileries palace
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Constitution creates a limited monarchy
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France becomes a Republic
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Committee of Public Safety is created
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Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a period of mass murder by Paris based Jacobins that gained power through the fear of people. -
Marie Antoinette is beheaded
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Robespierre is beheaded
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Reaction
The parliament revolted, which resulted in the fall of Maximilien Robespierre and the collapse of revolutionary fervour and the Reign of Terror in France -
Third Constitution is adopted
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Louis XVI is beheaded
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Napoleon invades Egypt
The British fleet took out Napoleon's fleet and isolated his men in Egypt. He wanted to take the Ottoman Empire so he invaded Syria, but was unable to take Acre in Palestine. -
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Age of Napoleon
The time of Napoleon being in the military and becoming emperor of France -
Napoleon becomes 1st Consul
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Concordat with the Catholic Church
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Napoleon named Consul for life
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Napoleonic Code adopted
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Napoleon becomes Emperor
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Battle of Trafalgar
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Battle of Austerlitz
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Napoleon invades Spain
Napoleon's invasion of Russia in June 1812 had ended in disaster, and by March 1813 French armies in east Europe were falling back to the Elbe river. -
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Napoleon invades Russia
One of the greatest disasters of Napoleon's reign over France. He had successes on the battlefield but was beaten strategically. -
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Battle of Leipzig
It was a defeat for Napoleon that resulted in the destruction of what was left of the French powers in Germany and Poland. -
Napoleon abdicates the throne & Louis XVIII takes the throne
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Napoleon is exiled to Elba
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Napoleon returns from Elba
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Battle of Waterloo
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Napoleon exiled to St. Helena
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Napoleon dies
