Essential Question:
• How did the French Revolution change
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May, 1789
• Estates-General Met
June, 1789
• Tennis Court Oath
July 14, 1789
• Storming of the Bastille
August,
1789
• Declaration of
the Rights of
Man & Citizen
1793-1794
• Reign of Terror
18 Brumaire (1799)
 Coup d’état
by
Napoleon.
Europe in 1800
Code Napoleon, 1804
a Divides civil law into:
 Personal status.
 Property.
 Acquisition of property.
 Ended Feudal law
December, 1804
• Napoleon crowned himself Emperor
Napoleonic Europe
Napoleon’s Military Conquests
• 1805:
• 1805:
• 1806:
• 1806:
• 1808:
Austria
Netherlands
Italy
Prussia
Portugal & Spain
Napoleon’s Empire in 1810
The “Big Blunder” = Russia
a (1812-1813).
a 614,000 men go in…40,000 come out alive!
Napoleon’s Defeat at Leipzig,
1813
1814: Napoleon Abdicated
• Sent into Exile at Elba
• 1815: Napoleon Escaped
• 100 Days of Freedom
Napoleon Defeated at Waterloo
(June 18, 1815)
Duke
of
Wellington
Prussian
General
Blücher
Napoleon
on His Way
to His
Final Exile
on
St. Helena
Europe in 1812
The Congress of Vienna
(September 1, 1814 – June 9, 1815)
Key Players
at Vienna
Foreign Minister,
Viscount Castlereagh (Br.)
Tsar Alexander I
(Rus.)
The “Host”
Prince Klemens
von Metternich
(Aus.)
King Frederick
William III (Prus.)
Foreign Minister, Charles
Maurice de Tallyrand (Fr.)
Europe After Congress of Vienna
Prince Metternich
1815: “We have
redrawn Europe’s
map for eternity.”
“All
the kings horses
and all the kings
men, couldn’t put
Humpty Dumpty
together again.”
19c Latin American Independence
Movements
•Simon Bolivar
•The Liberator
•Led
independence
movements in
Venezuela,
Columbia,
Ecuador, Peru,
and Bolivia
Revolutionary Movements in Early 19c
Greek Revolution - 1821
Russia: Decembrist Uprising 1825
The 1830 Revolutions
France, 1830: To the Barracades 
Revolution, Again!!
Workers, students and some of the middle class call for a Republic!
Louis Philippe  The “Citizen King”
(r. 1830-1848)
Centers of Revolution in 1848
Paris, 1848: To the Barricades
Again!
The Hungarian Revolution, 1849
Impact of French Revolution
& Napoleon
• Spread of Nationalism
• Congress of Vienna redrew map of
Europe
• Spread of revolution throughout
Europe & Latin America