-
The Storming of the Bastille was a pivotal uprising on 14 July 1789 in which Parisians seized a royal fortress-prison, igniting the French Revolution. -
-
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789 by the French National Assembly. -
The exact date the Haitian Revolution began was 21 August 1791, when the first major slave uprising erupted in the northern plain of Saint‑Domingue. -
On 22 September 1792, the French National Convention abolished the monarchy and proclaimed the French First Republic. -
The execution of King Louis XVI on 21 January 1793 was a dramatic moment of the French Revolution in which the deposed monarch was publicly guillotined in Paris after being convicted of treason by the National Convention. -
Marie Antoinette was executed by guillotine on 16 October 1793 after being convicted of treason during the French Revolution, marking a dramatic end to her life as France’s last queen before the monarchy fell. -
Napoleon’s expedition to Saint‑Domingue began on 14 December 1801, when the first ships of General Leclerc’s fleet departed France; the main landings in Saint‑Domingue took place in early February 1802. -
The Haitian troops defeated the French on 18 November 1803, during the Battle of Vertières, the final and decisive engagement of the Haitian Revolution. -
The Haitian Revolution ended on 1 January 1804, the day Haiti formally declared its independence from France. This date marks the creation of the first independent Black republic and the only nation born from a successful slave revolt. -
Napoleon’s rise to emperor was sealed on 18 May 1804, when the French Senate proclaimed him Emperor of the French, transforming his political dominance into a hereditary imperial regime.