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Estates General at Versalles
The Estates General were inaugurated in the Salon des Fêtes of the Palace of Versailles, convened by Louis XVI, with the intention of resolving the critical situation of the French Treasury. -
Tennis Court Oath
It was a compromise of union presented among the deputies of the third state not to separate until France was endowed with a Constitution, facing the pressures of the King of France Louis XVI. -
Storming of 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 dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. -
French Constitution of 1791
It was the first written constitution in French history, was promulgated by the National Constituent Assembly and accepted by Louis XVI. It contained the reform of the French State, with France being configured as a constitutional monarchy. -
First French Republic
The First French Republic was proclaimed and Luis XVI was dismissed as king, abolishing the French Monarchy. -
Jacobin convention
The Jacobins ruled from June 1793 to July 1794, imposed the Reign of Terror and made use of their power in the Committee of Public Salvation to repress all opposition to the government with unrelenting violence. -
Execution of Luis XVI
The execution of Louis XVI who had been accused for treason was carried out in the Place de la Revolution, formerly known as Place de Louis XV. -
Execution of Robespierre
He was arrested and guillotined on July 28, 1794 (10th of Thermidor) along with twenty-one followers. His death was followed by a Thermidorian reaction that dismantled the Terror regime and shattered the purely revolutionary government, which was replaced by the more conservative Directory. -
Coup d’etat of Napoleon
Ended the Directory, the last form of government of the French Revolution, and initiated the Consulate with Napoleon Bonaparte as leader. -
The consecration of Napoleon
Napoleon was proclaimed Emperor on May 18, 1804 by the Senate and crowned Emperor of the French on December 2, 1804 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, in Paris, with the Crown of Napoleon. -
Battle of Austerlitz
Napoleón vence a Austria y Rusia en la batalla conocida como la de los "Tres Emperadores" y esto consolidó el dominio napoleónico europeo. -
Battle of Leipzig
An allied army composed of the United Kingdom, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Prussia and other small German states, launched troops against the Napoleonic troops installed in Leipzig. The Sixth Coalition won. -
Treaty of Fontainebleau
It was an agreement reached between Napoleon Bonaparte and the representatives of Austria, Russia and Prussia in the framework of the Napoleonic Wars. After the defeat of the French armies and the occupation of Paris by the forces of the Sixth Coalition, the treaty established Napoleon's resignation and the conditions of his exile to the island of Elba. -
Les Cent-Jours
The period known as the Hundred Days or Waterloo Campaign, runs from March 20, 1815, the date of Napoleon's return to Paris from his exile in Elba, to July 8, 1815, the date of the second restoration of Louis XVIII as king of France. -
Battle of Waterloo
After the return of the Emperor from his exile on the island of Elba, ushering in the period known as the "Hundred Days", as the Seventh Coalition gathered against him, Napoleon decided to invade the Low Countries, the rallying place for the troops of the new alliance. The battle meant the definitive end of the Napoleonic wars. Resulting in Napoleon's exile to the island of St. Helena. -
Fundation of the Holy alliance
In order to maintain the absolutist doctrine throughout Europe, the Congress of Vienna created the Holy Alliance, which was a coalition between Russia, Austria and Prussia that had the right to intervene in any state to neutralize any attempt at liberal revolution. -
Napoleon’s death
Napoleon died in St. Elena with 51 years.