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Louis XVI calls the Estates General
The Louis XVI calls the Estates General was cause due to the growth of the political and financial situation in France. This forced Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. This was important for the French revolution because it proposed solutions to France's financial problems. It ended when the Third Estate formed into a National Assembly, signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution. -
Tennis Court Oath
This happened due to them thinking that the king was forcing them to disband, they moved to a nearby indoor tennis court. There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.The Tennis Court Oath was an important part of the French Revolution because it represented the power of the people. This challenge asserting that political authority derived from the people and their representatives rather than from the monarchy. -
Parisians storming the Bastille
The Parisian storming the Bastille happened due to the fear. Fear that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille. It is important to the French revolution because it signaled the start of the French Revolution. After which a republic was established based on the ideals of 'liberty, equality, fraternity'. -
Writing of the Declaration of the Rights of Men
The document was written by Marquis de Lafayette with the help of Thomas Jefferson. It outlined the natural and legal rights of French citizens and limited the power of King Louis XVI.French Revolution that granted civil rights to some commoners, although it excluded a significant segment of the French population. -
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. They complained over the high price and scant availability of bread, marching from Paris to Versailles. This became one of the most significant events of the French Revolution, eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris. -
Execution of the King and Queen
On January 21, he walked steadfastly to the guillotine and was executed. Nine months later, Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason by a tribunal, and on October 16 she followed her husband to the guillotine. symbolized the end of an unbroken thousand-year period of monarchy in France and the true beginning of democracy within the nation, although Louis would not be the last king of France. -
Reign of Terror
a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervor, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety. The Reign of Terror instituted the conscripted army, which saved France from invasion by other countries and in that sense preserved the Revolution. -
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. Napoleon was called back to Paris to defend the government as another royalist uprising erupted. Through strategic commanding and deployment of cannons on city streets, he helped eliminate the uprising in 1795. -
Napoleon Built an Empire
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. 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
The Congress of Vienna was the first of a series of international meetings that came to be known as the Concert of Europe, an attempt to forge a peaceful balance of power in Europe. It served as a model for later organizations such as the League of Nations and the United Nations .The objective of the Congress was to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars through negotiation. -
King Louis XVIII Begins His Reign
After declaring himself King of France under the name of Louis XVIII when his nephew, Louis XVII died in 1795, he managed to maintain a semblance of Court, which guaranteed him the esteem he needed to hold his rank. He saw France's first experiment in parliamentary government since the Revolution. The King was invested with executive powers and had “legislative initiative,” whereas a largely advisory parliament voted on laws and approved the budget. -
6th Coalition Occupies Paris
A battle fought on March 30–31, 1814 between the Sixth Coalition—consisting of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, and the French Empire. After a day of fighting in the suburbs of Paris.With their armies reorganized, the allies drove Napoleon out of Germany in 1813 and invaded France in 1814. The Allies defeated the remaining French armies, occupied Paris, and forced Napoleon to abdicate and go into exile. -
Napoleon Defeated at Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815 between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blucher. 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. it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever. -
Napoleon invaded Russia
the Grande Armed, led by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Newman 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 Armed of more than 500,000 European troops. The Napoleonic invasion of Russia served as a major turning point in European history as the defeat led to the fall of Napoleon and his French empire in the nineteenth century. -
Establishment of the New French Constitution
Redefining the organization of the French government, citizenship, and the limits to the powers of government, the National Assembly set out to represent the interests of the public. It created a new structure for the Government of France. Specifically, it limited the powers of the monarchy of France, delegated legislative powers to an elected National Assembly, and created an elected judiciary.