French revolution

  • battle of yorktown

  • peace of paris

  • affair of the diamond necklace

  • meeting of the estates general

  • fall of bastille

  • march on versilles

  • tennis court oath

  • great fear

  • declaration of the rights of man

  • Period: to

    1st phase

  • flight to varennes

  • dissolution of the nation assembly

  • france declared war on austria

  • attack on the tuileries place

  • declaration of the republic and the trail of Louis

  • convention abolishes monarchy and declares France a republic

  • french army stops Prussians and Austrians at valmy

  • french armies invade austrian netherlands

  • first meeting of national convention

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    2nd phase

  • louis XVI is guillotined

  • marat assassinated

  • reign of terror

  • danton executed

  • convention declares emancipatio of all slaves

  • festival of the supreme being

  • battle of fleurus

  • directory and rise of napoleon

  • churches reopened

  • third partition of poland

  • directory government begins

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    3rd phase

  • bonaparte is named head of army of italy

  • french defeat austrians in northern italy and make peace

  • coup detat removed royalists from directory

  • babeuf executed

  • established consulate

    Napoleon Bonaparte returned from a military expedition in Egypt and ousted the Directory. Napoleon established what he called the Consulate and himself as the First Consul.
  • victory of french over turks at jaffa

  • Period: to

    4th phase

  • renewed war with britian

  • coalations and a brief peace

  • napoleonic code promulgated

  • 3rd coalition

  • the continental system

  • napolean suffers major defeat in russia