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Estates General meets
This assembly was composed of three estates – the clergy, nobility and commoners – who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country. -
National Assembly is formed
a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General. -
Citizens attack Paris prison
The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison is known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. The prison contained only seven inmates at the time of its storming. -
Citizens storm the Bastille
The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
the French National Constituent Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. -
Poor women of Paris march on Versailles
Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles on October 5, 1789. This became one of the most significant events of the French Revolution, eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris. -
Royal Family confined to Tuileries
a crowd marched on Versailles and forced the royal family to return to Paris, where they were confined in the Tuileries palace. Louis's position, further compromised by the plots of émigré circles, was definitively ruined when the royal family attempted (June, 1791) to flee France in disguise. -
Great Fear sweeps France
The French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate. -
Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted
a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that caused the immediate subordination of the Catholic Church in France to the French government. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy made bishops and priests elected. -
Constitution creates a limited monarchy
This document established a constitutional monarchy and incorporated several political ideas from the Enlightenment. -
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Paris mob invades Tuileries palace
the National Guard and a mob of Parisians invaded the residence of the royal family -
France becomes a Republic
Following the aftermaths of the Revolution of 1789 and the abolishment of the monarchy, the First Republic of France is established -
Louis XVI beheaded
Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was guillotined on January 21, 1793. -
Committee of Public Safety is created
Under their control, the Committee began to operate effectively but also autonomously from the legislature. Many consider the Committee of Public Safety as the body most responsible for the Reign of Terror. -
Royal Family attempts to flee France
Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and their children fled the Tuileries Palace to try to make it to Austria, in order to gather support from Marie Antoinette's country of birth. -
Marie Antoinette is beheaded
Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. -
Reign of Terror
Reign of Terror, also called the Terror, French La Terreur, period of the French Revolution from September 5, 1793, to July 27, 1794 (9 Thermidor, year II). -
Robespierre is beheaded
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman who was one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution -
XVIII takes the thrown
When the King and Queen were executed in 1793, he declared himself regent for his nephew, the dauphin Louis XVII, at whose death, in June 1795, he proclaimed himself Louis XVIII. -
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Third Constitution is adopted
The Constitution of the Year III is the constitution that founded the Directory. Adopted by the convention on 5 Fructidor Year III (22 August 1795) and approved by plebiscite on 6 September. -
Napoleon invades Egypt
he French campaign in Egypt and Syria was Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria, proclaimed to defend French trade interests, to establish scientific enterprise -
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Age of Napoleon
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Directory takes power
The governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 2 November 1795 until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the Consulate. -
Concordat with the Catholic Church
Napoleon Bonaparte and papal and clerical representatives in both Rome and Paris, defining the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France and ending the breach caused by the church reforms and confiscations enacted during the French Revolution. -
Napoleon becomes 1st Consul
Napoleon proclaimed himself First Consul for Life. A new constitution of his own devising legislated a succession to rule for his son (even though he had not yet fathered any children) and he had taken the major steps in creating a new regime in his own image. -
Napoleon named Consul for life
Napoleon proclaimed himself First Consul for Life. -
Napoleonic Code adopted
the resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era. The Civil Code (renamed the Code Napoleon in 1807) addressed mainly matters relating to property and families. -
Napoleonic Code
The resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
Napoleon has crowned Emperor of the French on Sunday, December 2, 1804, at Notre-Dame de Paris in Paris. -
Battle of Austerlitz
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Battle of Trafalgar
Naval engagement between the British Royal Navy -
Napoleon invades Spain
The pretext of sending reinforcements to the French army occupying Portugal, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain. Thus began the Peninsular War, an important phase of the Napoleonic Wars that were fought between France and much of Europe between 1792 and 1815. -
Napoleon retreats from Russia
The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian campaign, was begun by Napoleon to force Russia back into the Continental blockade of the United Kingdom. -
Napoleon invades Russia
the Grande Armée, led by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Neman 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 Armée of more than 500,000 European troops. -
Battle of Leipzig
Battle of Leipsic and later the Battle of the Nations, was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813 at Leipzig -
Napoleon abdicates the thrown & Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
Napoleon is exiled to Elba
Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon's forces were defeated by the British and Prussians, marked the end of his reign and of France's domination in Europe. -
Napoleon returns from Elba
The Hundred Days War, also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815. -
Napoleon exiled to St. Helena
Napoleon disembarked in St. Helena. -
Napoleon dies
Napoleon was exiled to the remote, British-held island of Saint Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean. He died there on May 5, 1821, at age 51, most likely from stomach cancer.