An overview of the french revolution with video links to you tube. Designed for my social 20-2 class (grade 11)

1. The French revolution A timeline Hang onto your hats

2. 1789 January 24: Summoning of the Estates-General May 5: Meeting of the Estates-General June 17: National Assembly declared

3. The tennis court oath June 20: Tennis Court Oath

4. 1789 continued July 14: Storming of the Bastille

5. More 1789 THE GREAT FEAR August 4: Surrender of feudal rights August 27: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen October 5-6: Outbreak of the Paris mob; Liberal monarchical constitution, March on Versailles

6. 1790 July 14: Constitution accepted by King Louis XVI July -- : Reorganisation of Paris September: Fall of Necker

7. 1791 June 20-25: Flight to Varennes of the royal family July 17: Champ-de-Mars massacre September 30: Dissolution of the National Constituent Assembly October 1: Legislative Assembly meets August 27: Declaration of Pillnitz ( Frederick William II and Leopold II)

8. 1792 February 7: Alliance of Austria and Prussia April 20: French declare war against Austria August 10: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody September 2-7: The September Massacres

9. 1792 continues September 20: Battle of Valmy Clip from a movie made in 1932

10. More 1702 September 21: National Convention meets; Abolition of the monarchy December: Trial of Louis XVI before the Convention

11. 1793 January 21: Execution of Louis XVI Reign of Terror February 1: War declared against Britain, Holland, Spain March -- : Royalist revolt in the Vendée April -- : Power centered in the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security June 2: Arrest of 31 Girondist deputies July 13: Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat

13. 1793 continued October 16: Execution of Marie Antoinette November 10: Abolition of the worship of god: Cult of Reason December -- : Retreat of the allies across the Rhine

14. 1794 January 19 : English land in Corsica February 4 : Abolition of slavery in colonies June 8 : Festival of the Supreme Being June 10 : Law of 22 Prairial (power to the Revolutionary Tribunal) June 26 : Battle of Fleurus (1794) (French victory in Belgium) July 27 : Fall of Maximilien Robespierre (9 Thermidor) December 24 : Repeal of maximum

15. 1795 March 5 : Treaty of Basel (Prussia withdraws from war) April 1 : Bread riots in Paris June 8 : Death of the dauphin ( Louis XVII) August 22 : Constitution of 1795

16. Enter Napoleon

17. More napoleon Enter Napoleon October 5 : Napoleon's "whiff of grape-shot" October 26 : Convention dissolved; Directory begins

18. Grape shot? Grapeshot is a type of anti-personnelammunition used in naval cannons. It was similar to its land cousin canister shot, although its slugs were much larger to punch through the hull of ships. Instead of solid shot, a mass of loosely packed metal slugs is loaded into a canvas bag. Grapeshot can also be improvised from chainlinks, shards of glass, rocks, etc. When assembled, the balls resemble a cluster of grapes (hence the name). On firing, the balls spread out from the muzzle at high velocity, giving an effect similar to a shotgun, but scaled up to cannon size.

19. Grapeshot was devastatingly effective against massed infantry at short range. It was used to savage massed infantry charges quickly. Cannons would fire solid shot to attack enemy artillery and troops at longer range (although the shrapnel shell was invented to increase the effect of grapeshot at a distance) and switch to grape when they or nearby troops were charged.

21. 1796 March 5 : War against the Holy Roman Empire March 9 Marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine May 10 Battle of Lodi (Napoleon in Italy) July Siege of Mantua

22. 1797 April 18 Preliminary Peace of Leoben July 8 : Cisalpine Republic established September 4 : Coup d'Etat at Paris (republicans over reactionaries) October 17 : Treaty of Campo Formio

23. 1798 February -- : Roman Republic proclaimed April -- : Helvetian Republic proclaimed July 21 : Battle of the Pyramids August 1 : Battle of the Nile December 24 : Alliance between Russia and Britain In other words a LOT of battles

24. 1799 June 17-19 : Battle of the Trebia (Suvorov defeats French) August 24 : Napoleon leaves Egypt October 22 : Russians withdraw from coalition November 9 : The Coup d'Etat of Brumaire (18 Brumaire): end of the Directory December 24 : Constitution of the Year VIII: Dictatorship of Napoleon established under the Consulate

25. In review

26. and the slogan you need to know

27. Liberté, égalité, fraternité Liberty Equality Brotherhood