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French Formally Ally with the Americans during the American Revolution
During the American Revolutionary War (American War of Independence; 1775–1783), France recognized and allied itself with the United States in 1778, declared war on Great Britain, and sent its armies and navy to fight Britain while providing money and matériel to arm the new republic. -
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Meeting of the Estates General
The First Estate was the clergy, the Second Estate the nobility, and the Third Estate effectively the rest of French society. Louis XVI convened the Estates-General. -
Storming of the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted by the National Constituent Assembly, during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France. -
Women March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. -
Attempted Escape to Austria by Royal Family
The royal Flight to Varennes during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution. -
War is declared by France on Austria
he Manifesto of the Duke of Brunswick, July 25, 1792. The French Revolutionary Convention, "Decree Proclaiming the Liberty and Sovereignty of All Peoples," December 15, 1792. -
King Louis XVI executed
The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution ("Revolution Square", formerly Place Louis XV, and renamed Place de la Concorde in 1795) in Paris. It was a major event of the French Revolution. -
Beginning of the Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror, also known as The Terror, was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". -
Maximilien Robespierre executed
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and politician, and one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. -
Napoleon Crowns Himself Emperor
According to legend, during the coronation he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself, thus displaying his rejection of the authority of the Pontiff. -
Congress of Vienna
The national boundaries within Europe are set by the Congress of Vienna, 1815. The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815. -
Battle of Waterloo / Napoleon’s 2nd Abdication and Exile
The Battle of Waterloo was fought near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa.
