Age of Enlightenment and French Revolution

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  • May 5, 1789 meeting with the Estates-General

    the beginning of the french revolution

  • Tennis Court Oath

    the National Assembly said they would not stop meeting until France had came up with a constitution

  • Storming of the Bastille

    The Bastille was a castle like thing that was in Paris

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    claimed that all men are born free and equal in rights.

  • Women's March on Versailles

    a response to food scarcity and the king's soldiers' anti-revolutionary actions

  • Execution of King Louis XVI

    King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine on January 21, 1793, in the Place de la Révolution in Paris
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    Reign of Terror

    a lot of executions and violence that took place in france

  • Maximilien Robespierre's execution

    maxi ilien Robespierre was someone who was executed along with 21 of is followers

  • Napoleonic Code is established

    a code of laws established by Napoleonic Bonaparte

  • Napoleon Crowns himself emperor

    Napoleon crowned himself as emperor
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    Peninsular War

    spain, portugal and britain battled against each other

  • Napoleon and his men march on Russia

    with napoleons invasion of russia was very bad for french leading to one of his exiles

  • Napoleon is exiled to Elba

    after he was kicked from the throne he was sent to the island elba

  • Napoleon dies

    napoleon dies.