Dates (test 2) Flashcards
(34 cards)
1575
William of Orange founded the University of Leiden
1633
Galileo Galilei was sentenced to life-long house arrest
1609
Mare Liberum
1715
Louis XV was crowned as king of France
1607
The eshtablishing of Virginia, ten first British colony in America
1763
A wat in Europe ended with a British victory over Frnace
1763
Peace treaty between Brittany, France and Spain
1773
Boston Tea Party
April 1775
Tensions between the British government and the Patriots in Massachusetts turned into a violent clash
1783
The ending of the war in America
4th of July 1776
Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Congress
1774
Continental Congress
1789
The Congress accepted a constitution
1770
The crown prince of France (15) married Marie Antoinette (14)
1774
Louis and Marie became king and queen of France
1788/1789
Terrible years for the peasants, especially the winter
1778
France fought against the British to support the American War of Independence
1789
France was on the edge of bankruptcy
May 1st 1789
Louis summoned the Estates-General together
May 5th 1789
the Palace of Versailles became the meeting place of the clergy, nobility and the representatives of the third estate
June 1789
The disappointed and angry third estate decided to establish a new meeting called the National Assembly
July 1789
Hundreds of Parisians gathered together and plundered and destroyed food depots
July 14, 1789
The National Guard stormed the Bastille (considered the start of the French Revolution)
Between July 17th and August 4 in 1789
Peasant in the countryside revolted against their landlords
