French Revolution

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    Military and financial aid for USA

    Defended the right of the citizenes, separation of powers, equally and freedom of all the individuals and right to choose a goverment and the declaration of independence of the USA.
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    Economic and Financial crisis

    The main causes of the economical crisis are related to bad harvests, rise in prices, lack of money...
  • Enlightment

    Enlightment
    European intellectual and cultural movement in wich reason and individualism was more important than tradition.
  • The great fear

    The great fear
    The Great Fear was a period of panic that occurred in the rural areas of France in late July and early August 1789. Fearful of plots by aristocrats to undermine the budding French Revolution (1789-1799), peasants and townspeople mobilized, attacking manorial houses.
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    Phases of the french revolution

    The main threat for the Revolution was that the king and privileged classes did not acept the changes proposed by the National Assembly for a great social equality.
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    The constitutional monarchy

    Louis XVI
    Moderate bourgeoisie proporsals: end of the Ancient Regime, a parlament by census suffrage and a constitution.
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    Legislative assembly

    New constitution: end of privileges, guilds...
    The members sat aqcording to their idealogy.
    The king had the right of vote.
    The National Guard was created to defend the Revolution.
    The Austrians and the aristocracy were a real threat.
    The solve the financial problem: church properties were sold.
    Civil Constitution: established the separation Church-state.
    -storming of the bastille
    -Declaration of the rings of Man
  • Estates General and votes per estate

    Estates General and votes per estate
    Each Estate in the Estates General received one vote as a whole group.
  • The Tennis Court Oath

    The Tennis Court Oath
    Representatives of the 3rd estate met in the Tennis Court and proclamed themseleves the National Assembly. The assambled was a constitution for french men.
  • Storming of the Bastille

    Storming of the Bastille
    occurred in Paris
    storming of the Bastille, iconic conflict of the French Revolution. On July 14, 1789, fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison.
  • Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen

    Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen
    The national Convention Assembly made some legal reform: feudal rights were abolisted (pesantry) and teh Declaration of the Rights of Man and the citizen.
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    Constituent assembly

    (they kill the king Louis XVI)
    CENSUS SUFFRAGE
  • Constitution (political liberalism)

    Constitution (political liberalism)
    Constitutional monarchy, popular sovereignty, separation of powers limited male suffrage (men with certain wealth, in a census)
  • The flight to Varenes

    The flight to Varenes
    The royal family with some servants tried to escape. They made it as far as Varenes, near the northern borde, were they were recogniser and takein to Paris.
  • Preventive war

    Preventive war
    France declared preventive war on Austria that invaded France
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    Girondin convention

    moderate
    -A political group operating in France during the french revolution
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    Social republic

    Radical bourgeoisie (sopported by popular classes), republic, more equality (universal male suffrage + social laws)
    Some nations disliked the spread of Revolution (mainly Austria anad Prussia) Known events the common people (sans-culottes) attacked the Tuileries Palace and took the royal family. The Republic was declared New assembly is presented, elected by universal male suffrage: the National Convention
  • Storming of the Tuleries palace

    Storming of the Tuleries palace
    Revolutionaries attacked the Tuileries, where King Louis XVI was residing.
  • Constitution (social democracy)

    Constitution (social democracy)
    would not interfere with the government
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    The Terror

    End of the social republic.
    social laws were introduced.
    They tried to control prices, especially the food´s: Law of the Maximum.
    Lands owned by the Church were sold.
    Primary education became compulsory.
    The final act of the convention:
    The conspiration against Robespierre. He and some other jacobins were executed in the guillotine and the french revolution end Coup D'état of Thermidor )
    robespierre ,muerte end of social republic
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    Jacobin Convention

    (very leftists)
    -They were the most radical bourgeois sector: they represented the demands of the common people.
    -The leader was Robespierre (radical)
    -This period is going to be the most extremist.
    -(europeos en contra) (counter- revolutionary activities) (those who protested o criticized the government were impresioned or executed.
    All citizens were forced to join the army by a mass conscript
    The executive power was applied by the Committee of public safety led by maximilien Robespierr
  • Execution of Louis XVI

    Execution of Louis XVI
    Executed the king by a guillotin
  • Fall of the Jacobins

    Fall of the Jacobins
    Fall of Maximilien Robespierre
  • Constitution (political liberalism)

    Constitution (political liberalism)
    A new goverment, of more moderate burgeoisie: the Directory. It included an elected legislative and a executive branch with five directors, to avoid dictatorship. The constitution restricted the right to vote to men who could read and who owned a certain amount of property: Census Suffrage.
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    Conservative republic

    New moderated liberalism -DIRECTORY - type of government (ONLY EXECUTIVE). Constitution of 1975. New government of more moderate bourgeoisie.
    It included an elected legislative and an executive branch with 5 directors to avoid dictatorship.
    Was a return to the moderate/conservative ideas. One of those leaders was NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
    The constitution restricted the right to vote men who could read and who owned a certain amount of property. CENSUS SUFFRAGE
  • People in exile begin to return

    People in exile begin to return
    people who were previously living in exile or forced to leave started to return
  • Coup d'etat by napoleon

    Coup d'etat by napoleon
    defeated the Directory in France and replaced it with the French Consulate.
  • emperor

    emperor
    Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself the Emperor of France
  • austerlitz

    austerlitz
    The Battle of Austerlitz, a crushing victory on December 2, 1805, of the Napoleonic army against the forces of the Russian-Austrian coalition, constitutes Napoleon's greatest tactical masterstroke.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte invades Portugal

    Napoleon Bonaparte invades Portugal
    In 1807 Napoleon ordered the invasion of Portugal, forcing the Portuguese Royal Family to flee to Brazil.
  • Napoelon bonaparte crowned his brother as king of spain

    Napoelon bonaparte crowned his brother as king of spain
    Napoleon Bonaparte did not crown his brother as the King of Spain; rather, he appointed his older brother, Joseph Bonaparte, as the King of Spain.
  • Russian campaing

    Russian campaing
    Napoleon's army eventually reached a Moscow abandoned and destroyed by the Russian army based on the scorched-earth policy.
  • Battle of Waterloo

    Battle of Waterloo
    The French army commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the British and Prussian armies in the War of Waterloo.