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Parisians storm of the Bastille
Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille which was a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. -
establishments of the new constitution
the new constitution was made to establish americas government and laws. this constitution granted basic human right to all men. those rights were life, liberty, and property. -
Louis the xiv calls the estates general
before king Louis called the estate general France was becoming in dept and he was constantly having to raise the tax prices. after he called the estate general France then became into even more dept because he kept putting money that the country didn't have into arts and the army. -
writing of the decoration of the rights of men
It became the basis for a nation of free individuals protected equally by the law. the decoration of the rights of men is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. -
Execution of the king and queen/ beginning of the reign of terror
after being under "house arrest" king Louis
xiv fled to France and raise an army to retake the country from the revolutionaries. -
napoleon overthrows the directory
the directory was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the French Consulate. -
napoleon invades russia
The French invasion of Russia was known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France it was known as the Russian Campaign. -
napoleon builds an empire
the first french empire as the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte of France and the dominant power in much of continental Europe. France's defeat in 1814 marked the end of the Empire. -
the congress of Vienna meets
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. it was negotiating by late September 1814. -
napoleon defeated waterloo
Napoleon 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.