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Treaty of Paris
Ended the american revolution. The United States is now recognized as an independent country -
Call of the Estate General
It was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm. The first estate was the Clergy, the second was the Nobility, and the third was the rest of the French society. -
Tennis Court Oath
This oath was made by the French estates, mainly the third estate. It was a pledge that was signed and was an important revolutionary act that displayed the belief that political authority came from the nation’s people and not from the monarchy. The third estate wanted to create a constitution. -
Storming of the Bastille
An event that occurred in Paris. A state prison known as Bastille was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob of people.The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule -
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March on Versailles
It was also known as the October March. It was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. a crowd of women demanding bread for their families gathered other discontented Parisians, including men, and marched to Versailles. They got there soaked, because it was raining... They demanded to see "the Baker," "the Baker's wife," and "the Baker's boy". The King agreed to meet with some of the women and promised to distribute all the bread in Versailles to the crowd -
Execution of the King
In August 1792, the royal couple was arrested by the sans-cullottes and imprisoned. In November, evidence of Louis XVI’s counterrevolutionary intrigues with Austria and other foreign nations was discovered, and he was put on trial for treason by the National Convention. The next January, Louis was convicted and condemned to death by a narrow majority. On January 21, he walked steadfastly to the guillotine and was executed. -
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Reign of Terror
There were thousands of executions. The person that mainly ordered all of the executions was Robespierre. -
Execution of Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. -
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts fought between France under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte and a number of European nations between 1799 and 1815. -
Haitian Revolution
It was a successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection. There was a massacre of the french, and the french were expelled. The Haitians won the revolution. It was led by Toussaint Louverture -
Coronation of Napoleon I
In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo, which took place in Belgium on June 18, 1815, marked the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. Napoleon rose through the ranks of the French army during the French Revolution, seized control of the French government in 1799 and became emperor in 1804. Through a series of wars, he expanded his empire across western and central Europe. The Battle of Waterloo, in which Napoleon’s forces were defeated by the British. -
Mexico Gains Independence
Eleven years after the outbreak of the Mexican War of Independence, Spanish Viceroy Juan de O’Donojú signs the Treaty of Córdoba, which approves a plan to make Mexico an independent constitutional monarchy.
