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Convening the Estates General
The meeting consisted on an equal number of representatives from each Estate. The Estates General meeting was a huge opportunity for the poorest people of the Third estate to finally be heard by the King. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General forced to meet in a tennis court
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Storming the Bastille
a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. -
The Great Fear: Peasant Revolt
rumors of an aristocrat "famine plot" to starve or burn out the population in response to rumors, fearful peasants armed themselves in self-defense and, in some area. The content of the rumors differed from region to region -– in some areas it was believed that a foreign force were burning the crops in the fields while in other areas it was believed that bandits were burning buildings. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
is a fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. Influenced by the doctrine of natural right, the rights of man are universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself. -
The “October Days”
For the duration of the Revolution, bread was in short supply much to the chagrin of French women. The harvest of 1789 had been poor, and France was in debt. On October 5, 1789 crowds of Parisian women met at City Hall to demand bread and when they were refused marched the 12 miles to Versailles to confront the royal family. After relating their need to Louis, he promised the women that he would send grain to Paris. -
Flight to Varennes
The royal family’s flight to Varennes – a failed attempt to escape to the Belgian border where they would be met by loyal troops – was significant not for what it actually was, but for it represented: the death of any chance of a constitutional monarchy. -
execution of Louis XVI
The execution took placeat the Place de la Révolution in Paris. It was a major event of the French Revolution. -
Reign of Terror
The Terror, was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, that included mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". -
Napoleonic Code
is the French civil code established under Napoléon I in 1804. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified. -
Napoleon takes over
After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d’état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804. Shrewd, ambitious and a skilled military strategist, Napoleon successfully waged war against various coalitions of European nations and expanded his empire. -
Battle of Trafalgar
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Peninsular War
was a military conflict between the First French Empire and the allied powers of the Spanish Empire,the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Napoleon Falls
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Congress of Vienna
was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna. Its objective was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. This objective resulted in the redrawing of the continent's political map, establishing the boundaries of France.
