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National Constituent Assembly
Assemblée Nationale was the first name this assembly had. This assembly was the first revolutionary government of the French Revolution and it became the effective government and constitution drafter until 1791. In 1789 when the 3 estates couldn't decide how to vote, the meeting failed, so, some people were furious with the inaction and upset with their position in French society. Many of them left the meeting and met in a tennis court, they called it: the Tennis Court Oath. -
Formal opening of the Estates General
The opening of the Estates General in Versailles marked the start of the French Revolution. Louis XVI opened the session with a speech in which he reviewed the circumstances that had led to the convocation. -
Tenis Court Oath
It was a dramatic act that it represented all the privileaged classes. When normal people thought that they were being excluid from there Assemblee they move on a nearby tenis court. There will be all the meetings,so, they wanted to put a name to the Tenis Court: "Tenis Court Oath". -
Storming of the Bastile
This event was produce by an acumulation of multiple things. This state prision (in Paris) was call the Bastile. The thing that happened the 14 of july in 1789 is that the prision was atacked by a multitud formed by the lower classes and sans-culottes. -
The August Decrees
The August Decrees were a set of 19 articles passed by the National Constituent Assembly during the French Revolution which abolished feudalism in France and ended the tax exemption privileges of the upper classes. The National Assembly, which had been formed from the three estates of pre-revolutionary France during the Estates-General of 1789, sought to prove its dedication to the people and cement the accomplishments of the Revolution. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the citizen
It is one of the most important documents in the Frech Revolution. This book was aprobed and created by the French National Constituent Assembly. This book speaks about (like the title says) the rights of Man and the citizen in the Frech Revolution. -
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Legislative Assembly
The Legislative Assembly met in Paris. The constitution was eliminated in 1791. At explaining the French Revolution it change from a modernating period to a radicl phase. However, the advent of republican democracy in France should not completely overshadow the importance of the failure of the constitutional monarchy. In the Legislative Assembly dont reveal a conflict between republicans and monarchies. -
The Fight to Varennes
The Fight to Varennes, this name is how they named the royal family fail attempt to escape the Frech Revolution (Paris). When they tried to flight to Varennes, they were located and were prisioners the next day of trying to flight to Varennes. This led distrust in the king and the infeasibility of the newly implemented constitution. -
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National Convention
The National Convection was created for providing new constitution for France after the overthrow of the monarchy. It was basically an assembly of meetings. It was not the first assembly in the first revolution, it is the 3rd. It came after the Legislative Assembly. They founded the First Republic, it was the first movement they did in this assembly because they wanted to get rid of the monarchy -
The Assembly declares war on Austria
In the French Legislative Assembly is where they declared the war to Austria. They see this war for saving the revolution from external threats. They all did it because they thought that the new government would be overthrown by foreign power leading to old regime. -
Storming of the Tuileries Palace
The Stormin of the Tuleries Palace was the ending of the French monarchy (that was the monarchy of Louis XVI) it was also known as the second revolution. This allowed for the establishment of the French Republic. Also is known because it put revolutionary power into the hands of the sans-culottes, the lower class and helped doing political tools during the French Revolution -
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1st French Republic
The 1st French Republic was establish after the secuels of the Revolution in 1789. This first republoic last after the declaration of the Fist Empire, when Napoleon thought to change the form of the government several times, and he did it. This is the finish of the First French Republic. -
Execution of Louis XVI
This execution took a very important place in the French Revolution. Louis XVI was puted in the trail because he had numerous crimes. He was puted there in the revolution square. He was executed by the French National Convention. He was killed by a guillotine performed by Charles-Henri Sanson and a high Executioner of the French First Republic. -
Execution of Robespierre
Robespierre was a french politician and was executed because the people were tired of his oppressive leadership. He was executed in the Place de la Revolution. -
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Directory
It was a five-member committee which governed France. The French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III. -
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The Napoleonic Era
Napoleon ruled for 15 years. He stages a coup abolishing the Directory and appointing himself France´s first consul. Napoleon conquests cemented the spread of French revolutionary legislation. -
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The Consulate
The Consulate is a responsable for protecting the interests of French nationals abroad. It was also the top level Government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup. The Consulate represents its nation to the population of its host country. -
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The Empire
The Empire is the First French Empire, ruled by Napoleon. It included northwestern Italy, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Hanover, Saxony, Bavaria, Bohemia, western Germany, West Prussia and a number of small German states. -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was the most important sea battle of the 19th century. This war was held between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navis. The battle took place near Cape Trafalgar. The battle ended a victory of Britain (Thanks to Nelson) This war allowed Britain to be the most powerful for 100 years. -
Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austeriltz as the most big and important battle that Napoleon had. Napoleon won this war and this war took place in a place near Austerlitz in Moravia. This battle started because Napoleon was angry that British troops had not evacuated the island of Malta. So, Napoleon sent an expeditionary force to crush the Haitian Revolution, and this is how Britain declared a war to France. -
Battle of Leipzig
The Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of the Nations. Tis battle has the Coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, led by Tsar Alexander I and Karl von Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the Grande Armée of French Emperor Napoleon. -
Battle of Waterloo
This Battle was also fail by Napoleon, this success was fail because the lack of coordination between the various Napoleonic units and questionable strategic decisions. It was a battle between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher.