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king louis xvi calls the estates general
Due to France's increasingly dire political and financial circumstances, Louis XVI was compelled to call a meeting of the Estates General. The clergy, nobles, and commoners made up this assembly, which had the authority to decide whether to impose additional taxes and carry out national reforms. Due to the Louis XVI Opposition to he General Assembly, the court met and created the Tenis Court Oath -
the tennis court oath
On June 20, they moved to an adjacent indoor tennis court after discovering they were kept out of their customary meeting venue at Versailles and believing the monarch was pressuring them to dissolve. There, they swore never to split up until France had a written constitution in place. Helped to ensure the Creation of a Constitution -
The storming of the Bastille
King Louis XVI's dispatch of troops to Paris prompted an attack on the Bastille by the National Assembly and revolutionaries. The revolutionaries were armed when they stormed the Bastille. Following Paris and the countryside's capture by the revolutionaries, King Louis XVI was compelled to recognize the constitutional monarchy. Ensured the creation of a constitutional system of democratic government. -
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The Great Fear in the countryside
During the French Revolution's Great Fear (1789–1789), there were reports of an "aristocratic conspiracy" involving the monarch and the privileged to topple the Third Estate, which caused terror and rioting among peasants and other people. The gathering of troops around Paris provoked insurrection, and on July 14 the Parisian rabble stormed the Bastille -
The Constitution of 1791 sets up a constitutional monarchy in France
The National Assembly drafted the French Constitution of 1791 during the French Revolution. It kept the monarchy, but the Legislative Assembly—which was chosen through an indirect voting system—effectively held sovereignty. Caused by the Tennis Court Oath -
The Legislative Assembly declares war on Austria
Rumors circulated among the king's ministers, the Girondins, that they were organizing a military expedition against the Austrian Netherlands, which Marie Antoinette learned of. She forewarned Leopold, her brother. In the spring of 1792, the Girondin ministry pressed for war with Austria. The Legislative Assembly declared war at their insistence. The Wars created by Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette would lead to their future execution. -
Louis XVI is executed at the guillotine
Louis XVI was put to death by guillotine as the first victim of the Reign of Terror. Revolutionaries threw up his head in celebration after his death, yelling, "Vive la Nation! Vive la République!" Caused by the amount of wars that had been caused and the debt France was facing as a result. -
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robespierre's reign of terror
As the head of the Committee of Public Safety starting in 1793, Robespierre promoted the hanging of over 17,000 Revolutionary opponents, most of them with a guillotine. Robespierre and twenty-one of his supporters were executed by hanging the day following his apprehension in front of a jubilant crowd at the Place de la Revolution in Paris. Set up after Louis XIV's execution with Robespierre taking over the government. -
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The Directory is installed
During the French Revolution, the five-member Directory committee that ruled France from November 1795 to November 1799 failed to bring about any changes to the dismal economy, instead relying largely on force and the army. This marked another step towards tyranny. The Directory is installed Created concerning the wars that Louis XIV had created that left France in tremendous debt. -
Napoleon is defeated by Horatio Nelson
Napoleon Bonaparte, who elevated France to dominance on the European continent, was constantly foiled at sea by Lord Nelson and the Royal Navy. The Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson's final and most significant victory over the French, started when he spotted a 33-ship Franco-Spanish force. Gave France the power to instill The Continental System against Britain. -
The Continental System is implemented
The Berlin decrees of November 21, 1806, marked the beginning of the Continental System, which aimed to isolate Britain—a country Napoleon mockingly called "an island of shopkeepers"—from continental Europe by outlawing all trade, including between neutral nations. One of the reason that Spanish Nationalist would soon overthrow Napoleon -
spanish nationalists overthrow napoleon
The Madrid people rose against the French occupation on May 2, 1808, but they were put down and many of them were slaughtered. Apart from Napoleon's seizure of power over the king and royal family, the Spanish Peninsula's national and local governments collapsed. Cuaed by issued created by The Continental System in response to Spains economy -
Napoleon is defeated at Leipzig (Battle of the Nations)
After launching a massive attack from all directions, the Allies surrounded Napoleon's army this time. After combat for more than nine hours, during which both sides sustained significant fatalities, the French troops were eventually driven back toward Leipzig. Lead to Napoleons exile to Elba -
Napoleon is exiled to Elba
The carefully worded Treaty of Fontainebleau, signed on April 11, 1814, determined Napoleon's fate and assigned him to Elba. Napoleon gave up all authority and control over the French Empire and Italy in Article 1. Caused by Napoleons' loss at the Battle of Leipzig. -
Napoleon is exiled to St. Helena Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo date
In response, the Allies established the Seventh Coalition, which in June 1815 defeated Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo. He was banished by the British to the isolated Atlantic island of Saint Helena, where he passed away in 1821. In reaction to Napoleon's returning after being exiled to Elba