-
Period: 1500 to
Revolutions Digital Timeline
-
Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years War happened because Catholic Hapsburg king of Bohemia sought to suppress the Protestants and assert his power over the nobles. During the event mercenaries burned villages and crops and this resulted in famine and disease, and one third of the population of the people in the German states died during this war. This event is important because it led to general peace in europe and had the German lands divided into 360 separate states. -
English Bill of Rights
The English Bill of Rights happened to ensure the Parliament had superiority over the monarchy. This event is important because it gave English citizens expanded rights, granted limited religious freedom, and established a limited monarchy -
War of The Austrian Succession
In 1740 Fredrick II of Prussia seized the rich Hapsburg province of Silesia. Maria Theresa of Austria set off to Hungary to get military help from her Hungarian subjects, and got further help from Britain and Russia. Even though Maria Theresa did not win back Silesia she won the support of most of her people. -
Stamp Act
The French and Indian war drained the treasury of the British, so in 1765 Parliament passed the Stamp act which taxed items like newspapers and pamphlets. The American colonists resented the Stamp act as an attack on their rights. They thought this because they had no representatives in Parliament, so they believed that Parliament had no right to tax them. -
American Revolution
In 1775 the American colonists revolted against the British over their taxes which the American colonists saw as unjust. During the American Revolution the colonists fought against the British at Concord, and Lexington in Massachusetts, and in 1776 the colonists declared independence from Britain. -
Treaty of Paris
The Americans in 1781 with help from a french fleet forced the surrender of a British army at Yorktown, Virginia to surrender, and then the British war effort stagnated. Two years later in 1783 American, British, and French diplomats signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the American War for Independence, and having Britain recognizing the independence of the United States of America. -
French Revolution
The French people rose up after rising bread prices, poor harvests, and the looming bankruptcy of France had kindled unrest in the people. In 1788 Louis XVI summoned the Estates-General to meet at Versailles the next year. -
Tennis Court Oath
The French Estates-General met in 1789 to try and solve the financial crisis but also to insist to reform. Normally each Estate had one vote and the First and Second estates always outvoted the first but this time the Third Estate wanted all three estates to meet with a single body with their votes counted 'by head'. In 1789 the Third Estate declared themselves to be the National Assembly, after a few reform minded nobles and clergy joined Louis XVI grudgingly accepted the 'National Assembly'. -
Storming of The Bastille
On The 14th of July 1789 the Bastille was stormed by 800 french Parisians that had assembled outside the Bastille. The mob finally broke through the defenses of the Bastille an released the prisoners that were being held there. For the French people the Bastille was a symbol of tyranny, inequalities, and injustices of the old ways. The Storming of the Bastille showed the end of the absolute monarchy and a step towards freedom . -
Reign of Terror
In 1792 a crowd of Parisians stormed the royal palace and killed the kings guards. After this a month later they attacked prisons that held nobles and priests that had been accused of political offenses over 1000 prisoners were killed. In January 1793 Louis XVI was executed, this signaled thee start of the Reign of Terror. During the Reign of Terror numerous people were executed and imprisoned.
