18th Century and 19th Century Ap Euro Timeline

American Revolution (1775-1783)

1765 -

  • Stamp Act

1773 -

  • Tea Act

1774 -

  • Coercive Acts to the Tea Party

  • The 1st Continental Congress refuses concessions to the English crown

April, 1775 -

  • American Revolution begins

July 4th, 1776 -

  • The 2nd Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence

1777-1780 -

  • French, Spanish, and the Dutch side with the colonists against Britain

1783 -

  • Treaty of Paris recognizes the independence of the American colonies

1783 -

  • U.S. Constitution signed

1791 -

  • The Bill of Rights is ratified

The French Revolution (1789-1799)

Liberal Phase

1789 -

  • May 5th:

    • The first Estates General meeting in 175 years at Versailles

  • June 17th:

    • Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly

  • June 20th

    • Tennis Court Oath

  • July 14th:

    • The Storming of the Bastille

  • July-August:

    • Great Fear

  • August 4th:

    • Abolishment of feudal privileges

  • August 27th:

    • Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (DoRoM)

  • October 5th:

    • Women March on Versailles

    • Royal family returns to Paris

  • November 2nd:

    • National Assembly confiscates church land

1790 -

  • July:

    • Civil Constitution of the Clergy

    • Louis XIV agrees to a constitutional monarchy

1791 -

  • June:

    • Royal family arrested after attempting to flee France

  • August:

    • The Declaration of Pillnitz

  • September:

    • The Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouges’

    • The Constitution of 1791 created

1792 -

  • April:

    • France declares war on Austria

  • August:

    • Mob attacks the palace

    • Legislative Assembly imprisons Louis XVI

  • September:

    • September Massacres

    • National Convention abolishes monarchy and declare France a republic

1793 -

  • January 21st:

    • Louis XVI’s execution via guillotine; begins the Reign of Terror

  • February:

    • France declares war on Britain, the Dutch Republic, and Spain

    • Revolts take place in some provinces

  • March:

    • Struggle between the Girondists and The Mountain

  • April:

    • Creation the Committee of Public Safety (CoPS)

  • June:

    • Arrest of Girondist leaders

  • September:

    • Price controls instituted

  • October:

    • The National Assembly bans women’s political societies

1794 -

  • July:

    • Thermidorian Reaction

    • Robespierre executed; ends the Reign of Terror

1795 -

  • Economic controls abolished

  • Suppression of the sans-culottes

1799 -

  • Napoleon seizes power

  • Napoleon seizes power

Radical Phase