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- War of Spanish Succession
- 1702-1714
- War of Austrian Succession
- 1740-1748
- Seven Years' War pits Prussia and Britain against Austria, France and Russia
- 1756-1763
- Louis XVI announces meeting of Estates-General to be held in May 1789
- August 1788
- Estates-General convenes
- May 5, 1789
- Third Estate declares itslef the National Assembly
- June 17, 1789
- Oath of the Tennis Court
- June 20, 1789
- Revolution of peasantry begins
- July 20, 1789
- Parisian women march to Versailles; force Louis XVI and family to return to Paris
- October 5, 1789
- Monasteries, covents dissolved
- February 1790
- Civil Constitution of the Clergy
- July 1790
- Louis XVI and family attempt to flee Paris; are captured and returned
- June 1791
- France declares war on Austria
- April 1792
- Storming of the Tuileries
- 10 August 1792
- Revolutionary calendar implemented
- September 22, 1792
- Louis XVI executed
- Janurary 1793
- Robespierre assumes leadership of Committee of Public Safety
- July 1793
- Reign of Terror
- 1793-1794
- Robspierre guillotined
- 1794
- Napoleon overthrows the Directory and seizes power
- 1799
- Napoleon establishes consulate, becomes First Consul
- 1799
- Napoleon reestablishes relations with pope, restores Roman Catholic hierarchy
- 1801
- Plebiscite declares Napoleon First Consul for life
- 1802
- Napoleon proclaims himself the Emperor of the French
- 1804
- Continental System Implemented
- 1806
- Frances engaged in Peninsular War with Spain
- 1808-1814
- Napoleon invades Russia
- June 1812
- French Army reaches Moscow, is trapped by Russian Winter
- September 1812
- Napoleon defeated at Battle of Nations at Leipzig
- 1813
- Napoleon abdicates and goes into exile on island of Elba
- March 1814
- Napoleon escapes Elba and attempts to reclaim Power
- March 1815
- Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo and exiled to island of Saint Helena
- June 15, 1815
- Death of Louis XV
- 1774
- War of American Independence
- 1775-1883
- Popular Revolt
- 1789-1792
- Directory Rule
- 1794-1799
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
- August 26, 1789
- Storming of the Bastille
- July 14, 1789