| Term | Definition |
| July 14, 1789 | The storming of bastille |
| night of August 4, 1789 | Rights of nobles and clergy abolished |
| May 5, 1789 | Louis calls estates general to solve financial problems |
| June 17, 1789 | Third estate forms national assembly |
| October 1789 | March of the Women |
| Fall of 1791 | National assembly passes constitution of 1791 and set up limited monarchy |
| January 21, 1793 | Louis Guillotined |
| December 25, 1804 | Napoleon crowns himself emperor for life |
| September 1791 | Constitution of 1791 |
| 1795 | Directory is formed |
| March 1814 | Beginning of the fall of napoleon |
| spring 1788 | Financial Crisis |
| summer 1789 | Great Fear |
| March 1815 | Hundred Days of Napoleon at Waterloo |
| October 7, 1763 | Proclamation of America - happy for the victory of seven years war |
| july 1793-July 27, 1794 | Reign of Terror |
| June 1812-march 1814 | Napoleon in Russia |
| June 20 1789 | Tennis Court Oath |
| 1795-1799 | Thermidorian Reaction |
| 1781 | Articles of Confederation approved / America victory at yorktown |
| 1787 | Constitutional Convention - to revise articles of confederation |
| July 4, 1776 | declaration of independence |
| America 1789 | Bill of rights - 10 amendments of freedom (speech, religion, press, petition, assembly, bear arms, trial by jury, property) derived from enlightenment philosopher ideas |