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TIMELINE HEEHEE!!
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convening the estates general
- The estates General met separately and usually the third estate was out voted by the first two.
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The Oath of the Tennis Court
- This vote was the first act of Revolution and they were locked out of their meeting room the next day.
- They met at an indoor tennis court and pledged to not leave until a new constitution was written up.
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Storming of the Bastille
Nobles and clergy who favored reform joined the Third estate delegates.
Rumors flew in Paris, people were not sure of what to do so they tried to get arms to defend themselves.
They stormed the Bastille and killed some guards and paraded around the streets with their dead men’s heads on pikes. -
Great Fear (started)
Peasants broke into noble’s homes and destroyed legal papers that bound them to pay feudal dues or even burned down the homes. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The National Assembly swept away feudal privileges of the first and second estate making all citizens equal.
They pass the Declaration of the Rights of Man, which said “men are born and remain free and equal in rights.” -
Women’s march to Versailles
In October 1789, women had rioted over the price of bread and marched to Versailles and demanded that Louis and Marie return to Paris. -
Louis and Marie’s flight to Varennes
Louis and Marie tried to escape France in 1791, but were caught and turned over to the authorities. -
Constitution of 1791
Legislative Assembly set aside the Constitution and declared the king deposed and called for an election of a new legislature.
The national convention took office in Sept. 1792 and quickly abolished the monarchy and declared France a republic where every male citizen could vote, no women though. -
Brunswick Manifesto
The demands for the suspension of Louis XVI, who was generally believed to be in traitorous correspondence with the Austrians and Prussians, became numerous in the summer of 1792; but it remained for the duke of Brunswick to assure the downfall of the monarchy by his proclamation, which became known in Paris, July 28, and seemed to furnish the agitators with a complete justification for the revolt which they were already planning and which they carried out on August 10. -
National Convention Began
The national convention took office in Sept. 1792 and quickly abolished the monarchy and declared France a republic where every male citizen could vote, no women though. -
The Terror or Reign of Terror
Robespierre lead the committee of Public Safety in 1793 and ruled France for the next year as a Dictator, this time came to known as the Reign of Terror. -
Directory
Napoleon on the orders of the Directory crossed the Alps to stop Austrian and Sardinian forces. -
Napoleon Bonaparte takes over
I'ma goanna take over the world like my brother Napoleon Bonaparte did. -
Concordat of 1801
Concordat of 1801, agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that reestablished the Roman Catholic Church in France. Napoleon took the initiative in negotiating this agreement; he recognized that reconciliation with the church was politic. It would help consolidate his position, end the royalist–clerical rebellion in W France, reunite the clergy, which had been divided since the French Revolution, and win the support of the large majority of peasant-farmers. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of land by the United States from France. It was made up of about 828,000 square miles that was taken from the French territory of Louisiane in 1803. -
Napoleonic Code
After four years of debate and planning, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework for France, known as the "Napoleonic Code." The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
The coronation of Napoleon I as Emperor of France was preceded by a vote on the issue of whether or not Napoleon should be appointed "First Consul for Life", which he won. Napoleon put the crown on his own head at his coronation. -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). -
Continental System
The Continental System or Continental Blockade (known in French as Blocus continental) was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars. It was a large-scale embargo against British trade, which began on November 21, 1806. This embargo ended on April 11, 1814 after Napoleon's first abdication. -
Peninsular War
The Peninsular War was a war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when French and Spanish armies crossed Spain and invaded Portugal in 1807. Then, in 1808, France turned on its ally, Spain. The war lasted until the Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon in 1814. -
Invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia of 1812 was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. It reduced the French and allied invasion forces (the Grande Armée) to a tiny fraction of their initial strength and triggered a major shift in European politics as it dramatically weakened French hegemony in Europe. The reputation of Napoleon I as an undefeated military genius was severely shaken, while the French Empire's former all -
Exile to Elba
Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled by the Allied governments to Elba following his abdication at Fontainebleau and landed on the island on 4 May 1814. -
Exile to St. 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. The European powers exiled him to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean. Within eleven months, however, Napoleon was back on the European continent at the head of a hastily-raised army intent on restoring Napoleon to the throne of France. Napoleon's defeat came in June 1815 at the Battle of Waterlo -
Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon resolved to attack the British, Prussian, Belgian and Dutch armies before the other powers could come to their assistance. He marched into Belgium.
