| War of the Fronde; it ended in the complete victory of the French crown. | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1789. | The French States-General assembled. Storming of the Bastille. | |
| 1791. | Flight to Varennes. | |
| 1792. | France declared war on Austria. Prussia declared war on France. Battle of Valmy. France became a republic. | |
| 1793. | Louis XVI beheaded. | |
| 1794. | Execution of Robespierre and end of the Jacobin republic. | |
| 1795. | The Directory. Bonaparte suppressed a revolt and went to Italy as commander-in-chief. | |
| 1798. | Bonaparte went to Egypt. Battle of the Nile. | |
| 1799. | Bonaparte returned to France. He became First Consul with enormous powers. | |
| 1804. | Bonaparte became Emperor. Francis II took the title of Emperor of Austria in 1805, and in 1806 he dropped the title of Holy Roman Emperor. So the “Holy Roman Empire” came to an end. | |
| 1806. | Prussia overthrown at Jena. | |
| 1808. | Napoleon made his brother Joseph King of Spain. | |
| 1810. | Spanish America became republican. | |
| 1812. | Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. | |
| 1814. | Abdication of Napoleon. Louis XVIII. | |
| 1824. | Charles X of France. | |
| 1825. | Nicholas I of Russia. First railway, Stockton to Darlington. | |
| 1827. | Battle of Navarino. |
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