French Timeline

By Johhlock456

  • Event 1

    The Estates-General meets and the king moves from Versailles to Paris.

  • Event 2

    The king attempts to flee from France and a new constitution is introduced in France.

  • Event 3

    Former King of France Louis XVI was executed by guillotine. The National Convention had taken power a few months earlier

  • Event 4

    War of the First Coalition – The Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria following decisive French military victories.

  • Event 5

    Creation of the bank of France.

  • Event 6

    Nepolean gains contro of France and builds an Empire.

  • Event 7

    Victor of Averyon,a feral child,emerged from French forests on his own.

  • Event 8

    Napoleon's army in Egypt surrendered to Turkish and English forces.

  • Event 9

    Alexandre Dumas covered these years of French history in an 1869 serialized novel printed in the journal, "The Universal Monitor."

  • Event 10

    In Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) Gen,Toussaint L’Ouverture surrendered to French forces.

  • Event 11

    Prosper Merimee,an archeiologist playright,was born in Paris,France.

  • Event 12

    George Sand,a French novelist,was born. She wrote 80 novels that included "Consuelo" and "La Comtesse de Rudolstadt”.

  • Event 13

    The Treaty of Schönbrunn, also known as the Treaty of Vienna, ended hostilities between France and Austria.