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treaty of paris
Ended the american revolution. signed by benjamin franklin and john adams in 1783 and created the united states of america. -
Call of the Estate General
On 4 May 1789 the last grand ceremony of the Ancien Régime was held in Versailles: the procession of the Estates General. From all over France, 1,200 deputies had arrived for the event.The procession started at Notre-Dame, crossed the Place d’Armes, and finished at the church of Saint-Louis, where Monseigneur de La Fare, stood at the pulpit and gave his famous speech in which he severely rebuked the luxury of the Court. For the first time in history a bishop was applauded in a church. -
Tennis Court Oath
Interpreting this as hostile move by the king and his ministers, the National Assembly proceeded to the nearest available space, one of Versailles’ indoor tennis courts. Gathering on the floor of this court, the 577 deputies took an oath, hastily written by Emmanuel Sieyès and administered by Jean-Sylvain Bailly. Together, they pledged to remain assembled until a new national constitution had been drafted and implemented. -
Storming of the Bastille
A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy’s dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed -
March on Versailles
Thousands of Parisians marched 12 miles to Versailles, the residence of Louis XVI and the location of the National Constituent Assembly.Some were desperately hungry and wanted to petition the king and his government to alleviate bread shortages Seeking retribution against the king’s soldiers or his wife, the much despised Marie Antoinette. After 24 hours of tension, the king and the Assembly agreed to accompany the mob back to Paris,brought a century of royal government at Versailles to an end. -
Execution of the King
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. Louis ascended to the French throne in 1774 and from the start was unsuited to deal with the severe financial problems that he had inherited from his grandfather, King Louis XV. -
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Reign of terror
The Terror was a deadly period where Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety and the Revolutionary Tribunals condemned thousands of people to die on the guillotine.Between the two summers of 1793 and 1794 more than 50,000 people were killed for suspected counter-revolutionary activity or so-called “crimes against liberty”. If the Convention’s brutal retaliations against civilians in the Vendée and other rebellious provinces are included, the victims of the Terror number closer to 250,000 -
Execution of Robespierre
After a year of rule by Robespierre, many of the revolutionary leaders had had enough of the Terror. They turned on Robespierre and had him arrested. He was executed, along with many of his supporters, by guillotine on July 27, 1794. -
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars continued the Wars of the French Revolution. Great Britain and France fought for European supremacy, and treated weaker powers heavy-handedly. -
Haitian revolution
After napoleon bonaparte's colonial forces were defeated the slaves lead by Toussaint-Louverture revolted against their masters and declared independence. after 2 years of fighting with napoleon's forces they were able to become independent -
Coronation of Napoleon I
Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor of the French on December 2, 1804 at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. A victorious general who had become leader of France through a coup d’état, Napoleon wanted to establish the legitimacy of his regime.His rule hereditary would reassure those who had acquired land and other benefits from the French Revolution that their gains were secure. -
Battle of waterloo
Napoleon’s final defeat, ending 23 years of recurrent warfare between France and the other powers of Europe. It was fought during the Hundred Days of Napoleon’s restoration, 3 miles south of Waterloo village. -
Mexico Gains Independence
The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict, and the culmination of a political and social process which ended the rule of Spain in 1821 in the territory of New Spain. The war had its antecedent in Napoleon's French invasion of Spain in 1808; it extended from the Grito de Dolores by Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla on September 16, 1810, to the entrance of the Army of the Three Guarantees led by Agustín de Iturbide to Mexico City on September 27, 1821.
