The French Revolution

By Albinopickle76
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    French Revolution

  • Meeting of the Estates General

  • The Tennis Court Oath

  • The Storming of the Bastille

  • The Declaration f the Rights of Man is written

  • The Women of Paris march on the palace of Versailles

  • The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is put into effect

  • The Legislative Assembly meets

  • The people of Paris storm the Tuilleries

  • The September Massacres occur

    The Sans-Culottes storm prisons and kill traitors and political prisoners

  • Louis XVI, the former king of France is guillotined

  • The Committee of Public is instated

    This starts the radical portion of the revolution and the reign of terror.

  • Jean-Paul Marat writer of the L'Ami de People is assassinated

  • Marie Antoinette is guillotined

  • George Danton is Guillotined

    Robespierre is alone in power and will increase the number of executions.

  • Robespierre is guillotined

    He attempts to commit suicide first bt fails.

  • The Directory takes control of the French government

  • The leadership of Napoleon is established with the consulate

  • Concordat of 1801

    Napoleon eases the deschristinization of France

  • The Napoleonic Code is put into effect

  • Napoleon is crowned emperor of France

  • Battle of Trafalgar

    The English navy defeats Napoleon's forces.

  • The Confederation of the Rhine is established

  • The Confederation of the Rhine is dissolved

  • Napoleon Bonaparte dies on Saint Helena