TIMELINE French revolution

There was a tax crisis

1770s-1780s

AROA BERNAOLA ARISTEGI

French Revolution timeline

Constitucional monarchy with separation of powers and universal male sufrage

1791 (sept.)

Nobles renounced feudal rights

1789 (aug. 4th)

The 3rd estate declared itself "assembly of the nation"

1789 (June)

Financial reforms were rejected

1787

Assembly issues declaration of the Rights of man

1789 (aug.27)

People of Paris attacked the Bastille

1789 (July)

Louis XVI met the Estates General to raise taxes

1789 (May)

The legislative assembly was formed

1791 (oct.)

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A new constitution was adopted

1795 (aug.)

The king was executed by guillotine

1793 (jan. 19)

Due to an insurrection , royal family was taken to prison

1792 (aug.)

Olympe de Gourges wrote the declaration of the rights of women and female citizens

1791

Reing of Terror

1793 (March)

Convention declared France a republic

1792 (sept. 21st)

Austria and Prussia declared war on France

1792

Napoleon Bonaparte, saved the directory from a royalist mob.

1795 (oct.)

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Npoleon died

1821

Empire

1804-1814

Napoleon's coup d'etat abolished the Directory.

1799 (nov.)

Napoleon conquered most of Italy

1796-1799

Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo and reported to the island Saint Helena

1815

Consulate

1799-1804

2nd coalition

1797

Olympe de Gourges was a french playwright and political activist known for writings women's rights and abolitionism

King Loius XVI was forced to meet the Estates General ( an assembly with representative of all estates) in order to raise taxes.

Reign of terror

The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution, it was a series of massacres and numerous public executions, around 50.000 people were executed by guillotine

In june of 1789, the 3rd estate declared itself the assembly of the nation, because they didn't accept the voting system and they considered that they were the only legitimate representatives of the french people.

There was a tax crisis caused by overspending money, due to a dangerous increase in taxes because of the bad state of the French economy. As they were privilleged, estate 1 and 2, did not have to pay taxes, on the other hand, the 3rd estate had to paid all the taxes.

The countries that participed were: Austria, Russia, Turkey and Great Britain

The 2nd coalition

Second Coalition was the military effort carried out for the second time by some European powers to stop the French Revolution.

The Empire

During the empire Napoleon declared himself the emperor of the French and concentrated authority in his own person

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several revolutionary wars.

The consulate

It was a period that, three consuls shared power but Napoleon gave himself more and more power.