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The French Revolution
A period of time in France when the people overthrew the monarchy and took control of the government. -
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The Moderate Stage
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Opening session of Estates General
the last grand ceremony of the Ancien Régime was held in Versailles: the procession of the Estates General. -
Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly
was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General -
Fall Of Bastilles
A violent attack on the government by the people of France. The Bastille was a fortress full of gunpowder and supplies that the people of France needed. -
Night of August 4
Abolition of Feudal Privileges ; It decrees that, among the existing rights and dues, both feudal and censuel, all those originating in or representing real or personal serfdom shall be abolished without indemnification. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. -
October Days
Crowds of Parisian women met at City Hall to demand bread and when they were refused marched the 12 miles to Versailles to confront the royal family. -
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that caused the immediate subordination of the Catholic Church in France to the French government. -
Flight to Varennes
The royal Flight to Varennes a night in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris -
Massacre of the Champ de Mars
An attack in Paris against a crowd of republican protesters in the midst of the French Revolution. -
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The Radical Stage
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France Declares War against Austria
Revolutionaries wanted war because they thought war would unify the country, and had a genuine desire to spread the ideas of the Revolution to all of Europe. -
Invasion of the Tuleries
The people of Paris laid siege to another royalist symbol -
Insurrection overthrows Louis XVl
King Louis XVI and the royal family took shelter with the suspended Legislative Assembly. -
September Massacres
A wave of killings in Paris and other cities, there was a fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris and that the inmates of the city's prisons would be freed and join them. -
National Convention Meets
The Convention numbered 749 deputies, including many professional men. Among its early acts were the formal abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the republic -
Louis XVI is Guillotined
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention. -
Journee on June 2
Resulted in the fall of the Girondin party under pressure of the Parisian sans-culottes, Jacobins of the clubs, and Montagnards in the National Convention. (Purge of Girondins from the convention) -
Journee of September 5
Meaning that the government, through internal "revolutionary armies" formed two days later, and would use force against its own citizens to ensure compliance with its laws. -
Proclamation of leevee en masse
It was issued by the National Convention in August 1793 a mass conscription of French citizens for service in the Revolutionary War. -
Law of 14
In order to organize the Revolution, this law centralized authority in a parliamentary dictatorship, with the Committee of Public Safety at the helm. -
Robesphierre's Speech
Robespierre praised the revolutionary government and argued that terror and virtue were necessary -
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The Reactionary Stage
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Popular uprising of 12 Germinal
The insurrection of 12 Germinal Year III was a popular revolt in Paris against the policies of the Thermidorian Convention. Started by poverty and hunger resulting from the abandonment of the controlled economy after dismantling of the Revolution. -
Uprising of 1 Prairial
insurrection of 1 Prairial Year III was a revolt in Paris on 20 May 1795 against the policies of the Thermidorian Convention. It was the last revolts of the French Revolution. -
Uprising of 13 Vendemiaire
13 Vendémiaire Year 4 is the name given to a battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris -
Directory Government begins
The French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years. -
Bonaparte named head of army of Italy
General Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian Campaign. The newly appointed commander in chief of the French Army of Italy arrived at his headquarters in Nice on March 1796. -
Babeuf executed
A French political agitator and journalist of the French Revolutionary period Babeuf was executed for his role in the Conspiracy of the Equals. -
Coup d'eatat of Fructidor
The Coup of 18 Fructidor, Year V, was a seizure of power by members of the French Directory when their opponents, the Royalists, were gaining strength. -
Battle of the Pyramids
The French army under Napoleon Bonaparte scored a decisive victory against the forces of the local Mamluk rulers, wiping out almost the entire Egyptian army. -
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The Napoleonic Stage
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Russia declares war on France
With France and Russia, a conflict originally centered in the tumultuous Balkans region with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand -
Law of Hostages
law enacted by the French Directory, during the final stages of the French Revolution, in order to strengthen its power in regions that the Directory viewed as problematic. The law was repealed in November 1799 after Napoleon took power in the Coup of 18 Brumaire. -
Coup d'etat of Brumaire
Brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France and in the view of most historians ended the French Revolution. This coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. -
Napoleon signs the Treaty of Luneville with Austria
The Treaty of Lunéville was signed in the Treaty House of Lunéville The signatory parties were the French Republic and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II -
Louisiana Purchase
Napoleon sells Louisiana territory to the United states in order to raise money. -
Napoleon crowned King of Italy
The Italian Republic, whose president was Napoleon Bonaparte, became the Kingdom of Italy, with the same man as King of Italy. -
Berlin degree begins the Continental System
which attempts to reduce Britain by blockade -
Napoleon enters Madrid.
led 120,000 troops into Spain and the French arrived in Madrid, where wild riots against the occupation erupted just a few weeks later. -
Napoleon begins to prepare Russia
In Franceas the Russian Campaign began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army. -
Sixth Coalition formed.
A coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and a number of German states finally defeated France and drove Napoleon into exile on Elba -
Austria declares war on France
Napoleon was not interested in any such compromise that would in effect end his empire, so Austria joined the allies and declared war on France in August 1813. -
Napoleon abdicates
After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, instead of remaining in the field with his shattered army Napoleon returned to Paris in the hope of retaining political support for his position.