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Chapter 9: the Late Middle Ages Section 1: the Black Death AP European History Chapter 15: 1790-1819 Section 1: 1790-1799 Political History By Dallin F. Hardy Holy Roman Empire Leopold II 1790-1792 Holy Roman Emperor Political Theory Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790 Edmund Burke The Rights of Man 1792 Thomas Paine Enquiry Concerning Political Justice 1793 William Godwin Promoted Anarchism Anarchism The theory that governmental institutions are oppressive and unnecessary and society should be based on voluntary cooperation among individuals. French Revolution Departments of France March 4, 1790 Provinces Replaced with 83 Departments Parlements Abolished Civil Constitution of the Clergy July 12, 1790 Emigres French aristocrats in exile who sought to foment counter revolution Flight to Varennes June 20-24, 1791 Royal family Austria & Prussia Declaration of Pillnitz August 27, 1791 By Emperor Leopold II Frederick William II French Revolution Constitution of 1791 September 3, 1791 Constitutional Monarchy Kingdom of France 1791-1792 Legislative Assembly 1791-1792 Girondins 1791-1793 Political faction Gained Leadership over Legislative Assembly French Declaration of War April 20, 1792 On Austria Prussia French Revolutionary Wars French Revolutionary Wars 1792-1802 French Revolution “La Marseillaise” April 25, 1792 Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle “Arise, children of the Fatherland, The day of glory has arrived! Against us, tyranny's Bloody standard is raised, (repeat) Do you hear, in the countryside, The roar of those ferocious soldiers? They're coming right into your arms To cut the throats of your sons, your women! To arms, citizens, Form your battalions, Let's march, let's march! Let an impure blood Water our furrows!” “La Marseillaise” Guillotine’s First Cut April 25, 1792 Nicolas Jacques Pelletier Considered Humane Equal Paris Commune August 9, 1792-1795 Sought to protect Gains of the revolution Storming of the Tuileries Palace August 10, 1792 By National Guard Federes Louis XVI & family fled 700 Swiss Guards Killed Holy Roman Empire Francis II July 5, 1792-1806 Holy Roman Emperor French Revolutionary Wars Invasion of France August 19, 1792 By Prussians Austrians Hessians French emigres French Revolution September Massacres September 2-7, 1792 Paris Commune Murdered 1,600 people in city jails French Revolutionary Wars Battle of Valmy September 20, 1792 French Revolution Convention of 1792 September 1792 First French Republic September 22, 1792-1804 Abolished French monarchy National Convention September 24, 1792-1795 Sans-culottes 1792-1794 Militant revolutionaries Sought relief from Food shortages Rising food prices Second Revolution September 1792 Turning point in the French Revolution Taken over by the radicals Sans-culottes Trial of Louis Capet December 1792 Convicted of Conspiring against the Liberty of the people Condemned to death Execution of Louis XVI January 21, 1793 King of France Louis XVII 1793-1795 King of France French Declaration of War February 1, 1793 On Great Britain Holland War in the Vendee March-December 1793 Royalist Revolt French Revolutionary Wars First Coalition March 1793-1797 Included Prussia Great Britain Spain Holy Roman Empire French Revolution Committee of Public Safety April 1793 Carried out Executive duties Georges Danton 1793 President of the Committee of Public Safety Expulsion of the Girondins June 2, 1793 Death of Marat July 13, 1793 Radical journalist Assassinated by Charlotte Corday "I killed one man to save 100,000." Charlotte Corday Maximilien de Robespierre July 27, 1793-1794 Leader of the Committee of Public Safety Levee en Masse August 23, 1793 Drafted Entire French population Reign of Terror September 5, 1793-1794 Loss of freedoms Arbitrary arrests Mass executions 40,000 Madame Guillotine I know the gutter and I know the stink of the street Kicked like a dog, I have spat out the bile of defeat All you beauties who towered above me You who gave me the smack of your rod Now I give you the gutter I give you the judgment of God! Vengeance victorious These are the glorious days Women of Paris, come gather your bloody bouquets! Now gaze on our goddess of justice With her shimmering, glimmering blade As she kisses these traitors she sings them a last serenade Sing, swing Savor the sting As she severs you, Madame Guillotine Slice, come paradise You'll be smitten with Madame Guillotine The world may be ugly, but each man must do what he must Give in pretty dear, in a year you will be pretty dust Now come let our lady possess you In her breathtaking, hair-raising bed She will tingle your spine As she captures your heart and your head Sing, swing Savour the sting As she severs you, Madame Guillotine Slice, come paradise Our Delilah will shave you razor clean God, when did man lose his reason? Save us, my God, if you're there God, can you not feel the terror like a fire in the air? Flash, slash! Glisten and gash! She will ravash you, Madame Guillotine Split, Madame just bit Give her more to bite, she's a hungry queen Sing, savour the sting As she severs you, Madame Guillotine Slice, come paradise Hail her Majesty! Madame Guillotine! Execution of Marie Antoinette October 16, 1793 French Republican Calendar October 24, 1793 Dated from First day of the Republic September 22, 1792 De-Christianization of France 1793-1794 Persecuted & killed Clergy Christians Notre Dame “Temple of Reason” Cult of Reason November 10, 1793 Based on Secularism Atheism “Festival of Reason” Execution of Georges Danton April 5, 1794 National hero Law of 22 Prairial June 10, 1774 Tribunals can convict suspects with little evidence Cult of the Supreme Being May 7, 1794 Founded By Robespierre Civic religion The Festival of the Supreme Being June 8, 1794 Thermidorian Reaction July 27, 1794 Fall of Robespierre July 28, 1794 Robespierre Threatened Members of the convention Executed Creator of his own destruction “The White Terror” 1794-1795 Those involved in Reign of Terror Hunted down Attacked Killed Jacobins Executed Constitution of the Year III August 22, 1795 Directory 1795-1799 Napoleon Bonaparte Republican general 13 Vendemiaire October 5, 1795 Revolt against the Convention Napoleon Ordered Artillery fire into the crowd Charles Maurice de Talleyrand 1797-1807 Minister of Foreign Affairs Poland Second Partition of Poland 1793 Between Prussia Russia Third Partition of Poland 1795 Between Prussia Austria Russia Netherlands Batavian Republic 1795-1806 Italy Italian City States 1796 Russia Death of Catherine the Great 1796 Paul I 1796-1801 Emperor of Russia Expansion of Russia 1796 Prussia Frederick William III 1797-1840 King of Prussia French Revolutionary Wars Treaty of Campo Formio October 17, 1797 Napoleon’s Invasion of Egypt 1798 French Control of Egypt 1798 War of the Second Coalition Second Coalition 1799-1801 War of the Second Coalition March 12, 1799-1801 Britain Horatio Nelson 1797-1805 British Admiral War of the Second Coalition Battle of the Nile August 1, 1798 Ireland Irish Rebellion 1798 America Quasi-War 1798-1800 France Coup of 18 Brumaire November 9, 1799 Ended French Revolution French Consulate November 10, 1799-1804 Napoleon Bonaparte December 12, 1799-1804 First Consul of France Constitution of the Year VIII December 24, 1799 French Empire Haitian Revolution 1791-1804 British Empire Cape Colony 1795-1910 .
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