MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Napoleon was crowned emperor
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the Directory was created
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the Committee of Public safety was formed
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the Austrians took over France
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Detailed explanation-1: -The French Revolution ended on December 2, 1804. After this long struggle for democracy, a single man-Napoleon Bonaparte-crowned himself Emperor of the French.
Detailed explanation-2: -On 18 May 1804, Napoleon was proclaimed Emperor of the French by the Sénat conservateur. He would later proclaim himself Emperor of the French, ending the First French Republic and ushering in the French First Empire.
Detailed explanation-3: -It lasted from 18 May 1804 to 11 April 1814 and again briefly from 20 March 1815 to 7 July 1815. Although France had already established a colonial empire overseas since the early 17th century, the French state had remained a kingdom under the Bourbons and a republic after the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -The 1802 Treaty of Amiens, between France and Britain, marks the end of the French Revolutionary Wars and the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars, in which shifting alliances of European nations sought to stop Napoleon’s conquests and end his reign as ruler of France.
Detailed explanation-5: -On the 2nd of December 1804 Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. According to legend, during the coronation he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself, thus displaying his rejection of the authority of the Pontiff.