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Estates-General meets for the first time since 1614
was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General. Summoned by King Louis XVI to propose solutions to his government's financial problems. It was brought to an end when many members of the Third Estate formed themselves into a National Assembly, signalling the outbreak of the French Revolution. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath was a result of the growing discontent of the Third Estate in France in the face of King Louis XVI's desire to hold onto the country's history of absolute government. -
Storming of the Bastille
During the reign of Louis XVI, France faced a major economic crisis, partially initiated by the cost of intervening in the American Revolution, and exacerbated by a regressive system of taxation. The storming of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was the third event of this opening stage of the revolution. -
Surrender of feudal rights: The August Decrees
The August Decrees were declared with the idea of calming the populace and encouraging them towards civility. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
a document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal -
Palace of Versailles stormed. King Louis and the National Assembly removed to Paris
women marched to Versailles in response to the food crisis. The only way they could get kings attention was if they stormed Versailles -
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
A law that subordinated the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government. Which means that the Roman Catholic Church in France was no longer the primary power. -
Royal family's flight to Varennes
King Louis XVI of France, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution. -
Louis XVI accepts the Constitution formally
Louis XVI feared civil war more than he did the prospect of becoming a constitutional monarch. He thus accepted the new constitution, swearing an oath before the National Assembly -
France declares war against Austria
European nations feared the spread of revolutionary fervor from France and were highly critical of the new government in France threatening to intervene to restore the power of King. -
proclamation of the First French Republic
a proclamation by the National Convention of France announcing that it had abolished the French monarchy -
September Massacres of prisoners in the Paris prisons
a wave of mob violence which overtook Paris in late summer 1792, during the French Revolution. -
Citizen Louis Capet guillotined, formerly known as Louis XVI
food shortages ran rampant through France and hostilities from the people grew, Louis attempted to take his family and escape France in June of 1791. Captured before he could leave the country, he and his family were returned to Paris and put under house arrest. Declared as an enemy of the people and stripped of all his titles. -
Start of Reign of Terror
a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution." -
Marie Antoinette guillotined
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Night of 9-10 Thermidor - Robespierre arrested, guillotined
Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution -
National Convention, led by Robespierre, passes decree to establish the Cult of the Supreme Being
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Coup d'État of 18 Brumaire: end of the Directory
General Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the French Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. which was 18 Brumaire, Year VIII under the French Republican Calendar. -
Constitution of the Year VIII - leadership of Napoleon established under the Consulate
a national constitution of France. established the form of government known as the Consulate. It also established a legislature of three houses, which was composed of: a Conservative Senate of 80 men over the age of 40, a Tribunate of 100 men, and a Legislative Body of 300 men. -
Civil Code (also known as Code Napoleon)
The first modern organized body of law governing France. The Napoleonic Code is a revised version of the Roman law or Civil Law. categories of the civil law: property rights, such as licenses; the acquisition of property, such as trusts; and personal status, such as legitimacy of birth. -
Napoleon crowns himself Emperor, in the company of the Pope
Napoleon explained: "To be a king is to inherit old ideas and genealogy. I don't want to descend from anyone." -
Napoleon invades Russia
It reduced the French and allied invasion forces to a tiny fraction of their initial strength and triggered a major shift in European politics as it dramatically weakened French hegemony in Europe. -
Napoleon arrives in Moscow to find the city abandoned and set alight by the inhabitants; retreating in the midst of a frigid winter, the army suffered great losses.
Napoleon goes to conquor Moscow and finds out its abandoned, when they head back the army suffred greatly because it was in the dead of winter -
Napoleon is exiled to Elba
On this day in 1814 Napoleon abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
Restoration of Louis XVIII
Louis XVIII opposed the senate's constitution, and stated that he was "disbanding the current senate in all the crimes of Bonaparte, and appealing to the French people" -
Napoleon arrives in Paris. Beginning of the Hundred DaysNapoleon as First Consul for life
the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 -
Battle of Waterloo
Upon Napoleon's return to power in 1815, many states that had opposed him formed the Seventh Coalition and began to mobilise armies. Napoleon chose to attack in the hope of destroying them before they could join in a coordinated invasion of France with other members of the coalition. -
Napoleon is exiled to Saint Helena
After his defeat at the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813, Napoleon retreated to Paris where (due to a lack of support from his military marshals) he was forced to renounce his throne in April 1814. -
Napoleon dies
Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in history, rapidly rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army during the late 1790s.
