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The beginning of the French Revolution in which the people started to revolt due to a crumbling economy, unfair taxes, ideas of the Enlightenment, and the spark of the American Revolution.
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The Estates General meets to discuss the grievances of the 3rd Estate.
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The National Assembly was formed by the Third Estate of France.
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The Bastille prison was stormed and attacked in the moderate phase of the French Revolution.
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The start of the French Revolution began with the Great Fear, in which two weeks was a time of disruption in the country of France.
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The first step of writing a constitution for France.
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An angry mob of working women armed with pitchforks and muskets marched from Paris to Versailles.
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The Civil Constitution of the Clergy adopted to run the French Catholic Church under the French Government
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Due to revolts of the French Revolution, Louis XVI's family attempts to flee.
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The Royal family of France was confined to their palace to escape execution from the French Revolution.
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The National Assembly's Constitution of 1791 makes a limited monarchy for France.
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The French Revolution moved to the battlefield in April of 1792. Other counties such as Austria, Prussia, and Britain moved in to take a battle-ridden country. The French Revolution entered the bloody phase.
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This event was a turning point for the French Revolution as it caused the fall of the French monarchy.
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France becomes a republic
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This committee was created to preserve the country of France against foreign attacks during the Radical Phase of the French Revolution.
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The Reign of Terror was a time of the purge of government officials who people believed that they had wronged the country of France.
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Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France before the French Revolution, was beheaded nine months after her husband was.
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Shortly after the troops of the National Convention caught Robespierre he is beheaded.
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Nationalism spread through France as new revolutionary ideas spread through France that were inspired by the American Revolution.
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The Third Constitution of France established a liberal republic in France as a constitutional monarchy.
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The five-member committee known as the Directory begins to govern France.
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Napoleon leads a campaign in France to conquer areas in the Middle East to disrupt British trade in India. The French are forced out in 1801 with a disruption in Egypt
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Napoleon assumed power over the French government and crowned himself emperor. People supported him strongly during this era.
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Napoleon was part of a group that started a coup and successfully overthrew the Directory. The Directory was replaced with a Consulate with three members, in which Napoleon became the first consul.
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An agreement was reached between Napoleon and the Catholic Church to define the role of the Church in a Napoleon-controlled France
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A national meeting is held that has Napoleon as 1st Consul for life.
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Napoleonic Code is the French civil code established under Napoleon.
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Napoleon declared himself emperor of France and crowned himself after taking it away from the pope.
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A British victory in Spain against the combined navy of France and Spain.
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Napoleon fought a decisive battle against the Russian and Austrian Empires during the Napoleonic Age.
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Napoleon betrays the Spanish government by attacking Spain after a combined effort to invade Portugal. The French victory ends up with a loss of Spain after 6 years of occupation.
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Napoleon led his army into Russia across the Neman River to defeat the Russians, but the attack ended up failing.
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The coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sweden, led by Tsar Alexander I of Russia and Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the French army of Napoleon.
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Napoleon is exiled after he abdicates the throne under the Treaty of Fortainebleau.
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Treaty of Fontainebleau has Napoleon give up the throne and Louis XVIII take it up.
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After about a year of exile, Napoleon returns to Elba.
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A French defeat in Belgium against the Prussian and British armies in which it was the last defeat of Napoleon before his final exile.
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After the defeat at the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena.
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Napoleon died during his exile in St. Helena.
