Unit Six Review Guide
C.J. Eyman AP Euro Period 2
Terms and People to know
Jacques Necker
Charles Alexandre de Calonne
Estates General
Abbe Sieyes
1st 2nd 3rd Estates
Cahiers de Doleances
National Assembly
Marie Antoinette
Louis XVI
National Constitute Assembly
Radicalization
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Refractory Clergy
Legislative Assembly
Jacobins
Girondists
Convention
Sans-culottes
Committee of Public Safety
Robespierre
Thermidorian Reaction
Directory
Napoleon Bonaparte
Horatio Nelson
Napoleonic Code
Tsar Alexander I
Treaty of Tilsit
Continental System
Guerilla Warfare
Duke of Wellington
“Scorch Earth Policy”
Metternich
Quadruple alliance
Castlereagh
Rousseau
Immanuel Kant
William Blake
Samuel Coleridge
William Wadsworth
Lord Byron
Friedrich Schlegel
Von Goethe
John Wesley
J.G. Fichte
Johann Gottfried Herder
G.W.F. Hegel
French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte Timeline
Pre-Revolution
1774: Louis XV dies and Louis XVI comes to the throne
1781: Necker is appointed minister of Finances
1787: Calonne Meets with an Assembly of Notables. They call for the Estates General
July 1788: Louis XVI agrees to convoke the Estates General the fallowing year
Moderate Phase
5th May 1789: The Estates General opens in Paris
27th June 1789: The Tennis Court Oath is made
9th July 1789: The National Assembly declares itself Constitute Assembly.
14th July 1789: The Storming of the Bastille
17th July 1789: The “Great Fear” begins in the countryside
4th August 1789: Aristocracy gives up all feudal privileges and rights
26th August 1789: the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen is put into effect by
the National Assembly
5th October 1789: Women’s march on Versailles
6th October 1789: The King comes to stay in Paris
19th June 1790: Abolition of Nobility and prestigious titles
21st June 1791: Louis XVI attempts to flee to Varennes but is recognized by the people
and is returned to Paris
13th September 1791: King accepts constitution and France is now formally a
constitutional monarchy
1st October 1791: Legislative Assembly commences
20th April 1792: France declares war on Austria
10th August 1792: Jacobin’s and Parisian masses storm the Tuileries Palece and imprison
the King.
Radical Phase
21st September 1792: the Convention is elected and the monarchy is abolished
21st January 1793: Louis XVI is executed
1st February 1793: France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands
6th April 1793: the Committee of Public Safety is established
24th May 1793: Uprising of the Paris Commune against the Convention
17th September 1793: “Law of Suspects” begins the Terror
14th October 1793: Marie-Antoinette is tried and executed
24th March 1794: Robespierre purges the political spectrum of all his opposition
10th June 1794: Procedures for mass trials and executions are put in place (22 Prairial)
27th July 1794: Robespierre is arrested and executed. The Terror is finished
Thermidorian Reaction
12th November 1794: Jacobin Clubs are suppressed and closed by the Convention
May-June 1795: White Terror instituted in the South
22nd 1795: The constitution of year III is approved and the Directory is established.
The Age of Napoleon
5th October 1795: Napoleon represses a royalist coup
2nd February1796: Napoleon is appointed to command the French army in Italy
1797: Napoleon starts his Egyptian Campaign
1st August 1798: Admiral Horatio Nelson Defeats the French fleet at Abukir eventually
forcing Napoleon to abandon Egypt.
10th November 1799: Napoleon joins a coup against the Directory with Abby Sieyes
December 1799: Napoleon is declared First Consul
1801: Napoleon makes peace with the Catholic Church
1802: Napoleon is declared Consul for Life
2nd December 1804: Napoleon is named “Emperor of the French”.
1804: The Napoleonic code was made
May 1804: William Pitt the younger is elected prime minister of Great Britain
21st October 1805: Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats the combined French and Spanish
fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar ending all French hopes of an invasion of Great Britain.
October 1805: Napoleon Captures Vienna
2nd December 1805: Napoleon defeats the combined Russian and Austrian forces at
Austerlitz; his most brilliant and greatest victory.
14th October 1806: Napoleon defeats the Prussians at the battles of Jena and Auderstadt
28th October 1806: Napoleon enters Berlin
7th July 1807: the Treaty of Tilsit is signed. This confirmed Napoleon’s new empire
1807: Napoleon sets up the Continental System
1808: Spanish liberation movement Begins
1810: Russia leaves the Continental System and prepares for war with Napoleon
1812: Napoleon invades Russia
September 1812: Battle of Borodino is fought. This is the bloodiest battle of the
Napoleonic Era.
October 1813: The Battle of Leipzig if fought and Napoleon suffers a heavy defeat
March 1814: The allied army marches into Paris. Napoleon abdicates and goes into exile
on Elba.
9th March 1814: The Bourbons, through the Treaty of Chaumont, are restored to the
French throne
September 1814: The Congress of Vienna is established
1st March 1815: Napoleon returns from Elba and the “Hundred Days” period begins
18th June 1815: Napoleon is defeated by the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo. He is then
exiled to the Island of St. Helena where he dies in 1821.
Romanticism Chart
Romantic Writer/Artist
Rousseau
Immanuel Kant
William Blake
Samuel Coleridge
William Wadsworth
Lord Byron
Friedrich Schlegel
Contributions and Ideas/Works
Emile: stressed the necessity of children to
grow up freely and learn by trial and error.
Categorical Imperative: the inner
command to handle a situation in a way
that other people would react to the same
situation.
He believed that as one got to know the
world rationally; he or she lost the ability
to see the beauty and innocence in the
world.
He contributed to the revival of Gothic
style poems. He also made contributions to
literature in his lectures on Shakespeare
He believed that as one got older; he or she
lost the ability to see the beauty in nature.
He also believed that children had the
greatest ability to see the beauty of the
world
A rebel among the romantics. He rejected
old traditions and championed personal
liberty. He also showed natures cruelty in
his writings.
Lucinde: attacks contemporary prejudices
against the equality of women and men.
Von Goethe
John Wesley
J.G. Fichte
Johann Gottfried Herder
G.W.F. Hegel
Faust: a book that symbolized the struggle
between romantic ideals and advancing
society along with the spiritual struggle of
the 19th century.
He founded Methodism. His ideas express
inward and heartfelt religion.
He believed that the world was truly a
creation of mankind and he expressed the
importance of the individual.
He viewed societies and humans as
growing like plants. He also expressed the
importance of preserving German culture
and tradition. He inspired the Grimm
brothers.
He viewed ideas as evolving like species
overtime. The new ideas brought about are
the result of a conflict between two older
ideals.