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Louis XVI calls the Estate General
The crisis came about primarily because of the unfair tax structure, outdated medieval bureaucratic institutions, and a drained treasury which was the result of aiding the Americans during the American Revolution, long wars with England, overspending, and an inequitable tax system. Necker insisted that Louis XVI call together the Estates-General, a French congress that originated in the medieval period and consisted of three estates. -
Parisians Storm the Bastille
At dawn on July 14, a great crowd armed with muskets swords Launay’s men were able to hold the mob back, but as more and more Parisians were converging on the Bastille, Launay raised a white flag of surrender over the fortress.
The capture of the Bastille symbolized the end of the ancien regime and provided the French revolutionary. In 1792, the monarchy was abolished and Louis and his wife Marie-Antoinette were sent to the guillotine for treason in 1793. -
Parisians Storm the Bastille
At dawn on July 14, a great crowd armed with muskets, swords, and gather around the Bastille. Launay’s men were able to hold the mob back. Launay raised a white flag of surrender over the fortress. The capture of the Bastille symbolized the end of the ancien regime and provided the French revolutionary cause with an irresistible momentum. In 1792, the monarchy was abolished and Louis and his wife Marie-Antoinette were sent to the guillotine for treason in 1793. -
Writing of the Declaration of the Rights of Men
The Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789 set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is one of the most important papers of the French Revolution. This paper explains a list of rights, such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and separation of powers. -
Establishment of the New Constitution
French constitution created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by a system of indirect voting.The Constitution of the United States established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. It was signed on September 17, 1787, by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. -
Execution of the King & Queen / Reign of Terror
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. ... During their trip, Marie and Louis were apprehended at Varennes, France, and carried back to Paris.On Monday, 21 January 1793, Louis XVI was beheaded by guillotine on the Place de la Révolution. As Louis XVI mounted the scaffold, he appeared dignified and resigned. -
Napoleon Overthrows the Directory
The Directory or Directorate (French: le Directoire) was a five-member committee which governed France from 1795 when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety. On 9 November 1799, it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the French Consulate. Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. With the help of Sieyes and Roger Ducks as well his brother Lucien. -
Napoleon Builds an Empire
The First French Empire was the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte of France and the dominant power in much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century. A series of wars, known as the Napoleonic wars extended French influence to much of Western Europe and into Poland. He also encouraged numerous reforms spreading ideas of the Revolution throughout Europe -
Napoleon Invades Russia
Napoleon considered Russia a natural ally since it had no territorial conflicts with France and wanted to teach Alexander a lesson. the Russian winter took its toll on the Grand Armee. Napoleon left Russia, of the 600,000 troops he had at the beginning of the invasion 500,000 were either killed, captured or deserted along the way. -
The Congress of Vienna Meets
The Congress of Vienna also called Vienna Congress, was a meeting of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich, and held in Vienna from November 1814 to June 1815, though the delegates had arrived and were already negotiating by late September 1814. Vienna, Congress of. Vienna, Congress of an international conference held 1814–15 to agree with the settlement of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. Attended by all the major European powers. -
Napoleon Defeated at Waterloo
A French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt.