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The Consulate was the government of France between the fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire in 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804. By extension, the term The Consulate also refers to this period of French history.

June 29,1789:

Tennis Court Oath

The French Revolution: Phases and Dates

This meeting was called so that the people of the National Assembly knew not to disband until they had created a French Constitution. The reason it was held on a tennis court was because Louis privately owned the Salle de Etas which is where they normally held their meetings. Louis decided to close it claiming he had to prepare his royal speech

Sept. 1791:

National Assembly Issues Constitution

Storming of the Bastille

July 14, 1789:

After very long negotiations, the constitution was accepted by King Louis XVI in September 1791. Redefining the organization of the French government, citizenship and the limits to the powers of government, the National Assembly set out to represent the interests of the general will.

On this date Bastille was stormed and taken by a Paris mob. A mob in Paris decided to steel 28,000 rifles. When they did this there was no gun powder to be found. They knew that there was gun powder in Bastille, a prison that was a symbol of the King's absolute and arbitrary power. They attacked it and conquered it within hours. That night 800 men destroyed the Bastille.

August 27, 1789:

"Declaration of the rights of Man"

"The Declaration of the Rights of Man" is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. Influenced by the doctrine of "natural right", the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself. This was the first step to writing a constitution for France.

(1801-1802)

1804:

Napoleon Code Promulgated

1803:

Renewed War With Britain

Napoleon makes peace with Austria and Prussia, he also makes The Concordat with the Pope. The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, signed on 15 July 1801. It solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and brought back most of its civil status.

The Napoleonic Code ‒ or Code Napoléon is the French civil code established under Napoléon I in 1804. The code forbid privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified.

Bonaparte did not car for peace. By taking advantage of several points left loose in the treaty, he provoked Great Britain to retaliate by retaining possession of Malta; and the war was accordingly recommenced in May 1803.

Feb. 1793:

Sept. 21, 1792:

March 1793:

"Reign of Terror"

July 28, 1794:

"Thermidor"

Convention Abolishes monarchy and declares France a republic. The National Convention met in September 1792 and voted to abolish the monarchy immediately and establish a republic. It proceeded to try Louis XVI for treason, convicted him, and executed him on January 21, 1793. During this time, counter revolutionary revolts broke out in rural areas such as the Vendée, and the military situation continued to deteriorate.

The National Convention was in essence coalition government for there was the executive power in France during the French First Republic. It was succeeded by the Directory in November of 1795.

Robespierre ordered the execution of 2,400 people in Paris by July 1794. Across France 30,000 people lost their lives. When Robespierre called for a new purge in 1794, he seemed to threaten the other members of the Committee of Public Safety. The Jacobins had had enough. Robespierre was arrested and sent to the guillotine the next day, the last victim of the Reign of Terror.

Convention Declares war on 1st coalition of Austria, Prussia, Britain, Holland, and Spain. Late in 1792 the Convention issued a decree offering assistance to all peoples wishing to recover their liberty. This decree, the execution of Louis XVI (Jan., 1793), and the opening of the Scheldt estuary (contrary to the Peace of Westphalia) provoked Great Britain, Holland, and Spain to join Austria and Prussia in the First Coalition against France.

The Reign of Tower by Committee of public safety (Robespierre) begins. This was violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris), and another 25,000 in summary executions across France.

Consulate

(1799-1804)

National Convention

(Sept. 1792-1795)

National Assembly

(1789-1791)

The Picture shown was a meeting with the people of the National Assembly. These were the people who broke away from the Third estate and declared themselves the "Assembly of the Nation." This was one of their famous meetings in the Salle de Etats.

Legislative Assembly

(October 1791- August 1792 )

Empire

(1804-1815)

Directory (1795-1799):

New Constitution Has Two Houses

Pressure continued to mount, both within and without the country. Those who signed the Constitution remained split into distinctly separate camps. Who should govern? Should the king have any power? Should the king remain alive? Madness broke out as shown in the picture.

In the picture it shows Naopoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars in Europe.

Sept. 20, 1792

Aug 10, 1792:

Paris Mob Storms Royal Palace

Apr. 20, 1792:

France Declares War on Austria

The National Convention had laid the foundations of a democratic constitution under which the administration of the country was to be governed by five directors.

On this date the French army stops the Prussians and austrians at Valmy. The Battle of Valmy was the first major victory by the army of France during the Revolutionary Wars that followed the French Revolution. The action took place on 20 September 1792 as Prussian troops commanded by the Duke of Brunswick attempted to march on Paris. They were stopped near the northern village of Valmy.

On April 20,1792, France officially declared war on Austria. Prussia decided to back Austria so the two countries invaded France. A new government called the Commune imprisoned the king and took over power. The Commune held an election to choose representatives for the new assembly, later called the National Convention.

Having broken into a local arsenal to arm themselves, the revolutionaries marched toward the royal residence. The King, realizing his family was in grave danger, installed the Swiss Guard to act as the last line of defense between himself and the mob just before fleeing with his family through the angry crowd to the National Assembly. The remaining soldiers turned their weapons on the Swiss Guard and the Tuileries Palace was soon in the hands of the people.

1805:

3rd Coalition

The War of the Third Coalition was a European conflict spanning the years 1803 to 1806. During the war France and its client states under Napoleon I defeated an alliance of Austria, Russia, and others.

June 18 1815:

1812: Napoleon Suffers Major Defeat

Battle of Waterloo

Oct. 5 1795:

Nov. 9 1799:

Coup D'Etat

Sept. 4 1797:

Spring 1799:

An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. It was the battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last. The defeat at Waterloo ended his rule as Emperor of the French, marking the end of his Hundred Days return from exile.

Napoleon suffers a major loss on this day in Russia with only 40,000 surviving out of 611,000. The Russian army blocked the southern flank to prevent the French from returning by a different route, Kutuzov deployed partisan tactics to constantly strike at the French train where it was weakest. Light Russian cavalry, including mounted Cossacks, assaulted and broke up isolated French units.

On Oct. 5, 1795 Napoleon was appointed commander of 5,000 men of the regular army and succeeded in beaten back the royalist mob who attempted to attack the Tuileries, where the Convention would be sitting in.

Treaty of Campo Formio, (Oct. 17, 1797), a peace settlement between France and Austria, signed at Campo Formio. The treaty preserved most of the French conquests and marked the completion of Napoleon’s victory over the First Coalition.

The Coup D'Etat was the overthrow on November 9, 1799, of the French revolutionary government. The coup put Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) in power as one of three counsels intended to head the government.

The War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802) was the second attempt by European monarchs, led by the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria and the Russian Empire, to contain or eliminate Revolutionary France. They formed a new alliance and attempted to roll back France's previous military conquests which worked. Austria and Russia raised fresh armies for campaigns in Germany and Italy in 1799.

1814:

France Defeated

The Battle of Paris was fought on March 30-31, 1814 between the Sixth Coalition - consisting of Russia, Austria, and Prussia - and the French Empire. After a day of fighting in the suburbs of Paris, the French surrendered on March 31, ending the War of the Sixth Coalition and forcing Emperor Napoleon to leave and go into exile.

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