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Louis XIV building of Palace of Versailles.
Louis XIV spends $100 million to build palace at Versailles. The Palace at Versaille was bad for the French people because, Louis spends 100 million to build the palace of spent to much money the people did not have any food. -
King Louis XIV Married.
On 16 May 1770, at the age of fifteen, Louis-Auguste married the fourteen-year-old Habsburg Archduchess Maria Antonia. -
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence is written and the colonists win American Revolution in 1781. -
Why Louis called the first meeting in 175 years?
Peasants mad about new tax plan; Louis calls first meeting of Estates-General in 175 years. He needed more tax money, he was broke. He needed more money to pay off his debt. -
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
The Tennis Court Oath was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789. They made a makeshift conference room inside a tennis court located in the Saint-Louis district of Versailles (commune), near the Palace of Versailles.Because he was broke -
Storming of the Bastille and why.
Was an armory/ jailhouse in the center of Paris. It was used to store weapons and at the current time hold political figures arrested due to violation of royal law. The peasants stormed the Bastille after hearing rumors that the king was sending the army to kill pesants and burn their crops. They stromed the Bastille to arm themselves and tear it down. It was an enormous symbolic act agains the ancien regime and it inspired revolutionaries such as the Jacobins. -
Declaration of Rights of Man
Declaration of Rights of Man written guaranteeing freedoms of equality, press, religion, & justice. The French declaration is heavily influenced by the political philosophy of the Enlightenment, and by Enlightenment principles of human rights, some of which it shares with the U.S. Declaration of Independence which preceded it (4 July 1776). -
Guillotine Gets Introduced
Guillotine is introduced to the french revolution execution. It consists of a tall upright frame from which an angled blade is suspended. This blade is raised with a rope and then allowed to drop, severing the head from the body. -
What happened to Marie Antoinette?
This marriage was met with some hostility by the French public. France's alliance with Austria had pulled France into The disastrous Seven Years' War, in which France was defeated by the British, both in Europe and in North America. By the time that Louis-Auguste and Marie-Antoinette were married, the people of France generally regarded the Austrian. On October 16th 1793 Queen Marie Antoinette was excuted. alliance with dislike, and Marie-Antoinette was seen as an unwelcome foreigner. -
Robespierre Execution
July 28, 1794, Robespierre was guillotined without trial in the Place de la Révolution. By the way of being accused of being trator to France by plotting with Austria then got executed. -
What does Robespierre want to do for the French people?
He wants equality for the French people, he believed everyone should be treated equality, That no-one should be treated differently with different treatments, that everyone of every race deserved the respect and loyality that he got.
