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Treaty of Paris
Ended the American Revolution, Created the United States, and signed by John Adam and Ben Franklin. -
Call of the Estates General
They were a group of people that help with certain issues. They also were like France's legislative. Each group wasn't treated fair and the third estates didn't like that. Later the third estates broke out and created their own part that would make laws. -
Tennis Court Oath
The third estate was supposed to meet to deseband by louis xvl. They were peasants that wanted a new order in power. All of this was just for having a say in something and be able to countrolle their own outcome. -
Storming of the Bastille
This event was what started the french revolution. They later overthrew the king louis xvl and his wife. Then went after Launary and he gathered his army and later white flagged. -
March on Versailles
A march from Paris to Versailles. All full of woman(7,000 working woman). They were all angry and all they wanted was gender equality. -
Execution of the King
He was a trash King and a democratic party was wanted and they killed the king. -
Reign of Terror
The Terror was designed to fight the enemies of the revolution, to prevent counter-revolution from gaining ground. Most of the people rounded up were not aristocrats, but ordinary people. -
Execution of Robespierre
He put King louis out of his place and later became king but before he was the the public safety guy but no he lost it all -
Haitian Revolution
In 1791, a slave revolt erupted on the French colony, and Toussaint-Louverture, a former slave, took control of the rebels.
Soon after Toussaint’s arrest, Napoleon announced his intention to reintroduce slavery on Haiti, and Dessalines led a new revolt against French rule. With the aid of the British, the rebels scored a major victory against the French force there, and on November 9, 1803, colonial authorities surrendered. -
Coronation of Napoleon I
Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa, where he lived under house arrest with a few followers. In May 1821, he died, most likely of stomach cancer. He was only 51 years old. In 1840, his body was returned to Paris, and a magnificent funeral was held. Napoleon’s body was conveyed through the Arc de Triomphe and entombed under the dome of the Invalides. -
Battle of Waterloo
In 1812, Napoleon led a disastrous invasion of Russia in which his army was forced to retreat and suffered massive casualties. At the same time, the Spanish and Portuguese, with assistance from the British, drove Napoleon’s forces from the Iberian Peninsula in the Peninsular War (1808-1814). -
Napoleonic Wars
The French defeated the Russians who pulled out of the coalition. Bonaparte offered peace but the coalition refused and in 1800 he crossed the Alps and defeated the Austrians at the battle of Marengo 1800. Other French victories followed and soon only Britain remained to stand against the French. After a failed attack in Holland, Britain made peace (1802). this was not to last long. -
Mexico Gains Independence
In early 1945, U.S. military command sought to gain control of the island of Iwo Jima in advance of the projected aerial campaign against the Japanese home islands. Iwo Jima, a tiny volcanic island located in the Pacific about 700 miles southeast of Japan, was to be a base for fighter aircraft and an emergency-landing site for bombers. On February 19, 1945, after three days of heavy naval and aerial bombardment, the first wave of U.S. Marines stormed onto Iwo Jima’s inhospitable shores.
