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Louis XVI
In 1774, Louis XIV became the last King of France before the downfall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was known as Citizen Louis Capet during the few final days of his life. In 1793, he was executed by guillotine for trying to overthrow the government and betraying his country. -
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Marie Antoinette
In 1770, Marie Antoinette became the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She married the future French king Louis XVI when she was just 15 years old. She was born daughter of the emperor of Austria, and was the 2nd to the last child of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. -
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American dispute in the larger imperial war between Great Britain and France. The French and Indian War began in the year of 1754 and ended during the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
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Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre was a radical Jacobin leader in the French Revolution. In 1793, he came to take control over the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. In 1794, he was removed forcibly from power and sentenced to death in the Thermidorian Reaction. -
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French leader in the military in the early 19th century. Napoleon was serving as an artillery officer in the French army when the Revolution broke out in 1789. He was inspired so much by that, in 1804 he became the first Emperor of the French. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath was one of the most very important historical events that took place during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate. One of those members that did not sign was Joseph Martin-Dauch. -
Storming of the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille took place in Paris, France on July 14 1789. The medieval's heavy protected building and the political prison in Paris known as the Bastille spoke for the family of the King and Queen in the centre of Paris. The prison held just seven inmates at the time of the storming, but was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy's wrong use of power; its fall was the time of anger of the French Revolution. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789. It is a document of the French Revolution and in the history of human civil rights. It is also one of the most important documents of the French Revolution. It explains a list of rights, including freedom of religion, freedom of speech, separation of all powers and the freedom of assembly. -
Women's March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles was also very well known as The October March. The October Days was one of the earliest and most greatest events of the French Revolution. A crowd of women was putting in so much effort for bread for their families, with also some men, and they all marched toward Versailles, all arriving soaking wet from the rain. The King agreed to meet with some of the women and promised to share all the bread in Versailles to the crowd of men and women. -
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Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a time in France during the French Revolution that lasted from September 1793 to July 1794. During these ten months, over 16,000 people were killed by the revolutionary cause using the guillotine. -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar ended with a victory for the British forces. This gave permission to Britain to become the world's largest sea power for 100 years. This Battle was the most important sea battle in the 19th century. -
Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz was the first agreement of the War of the Third Coalition and also one of Napoleon's greatest victories. All of Napoleon's 68,000 troops defeated almost 90,000 Russians and Austrians. -
Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to Elba
The Allies invaded France and took control over Paris in the spring of 1814, forcing Napoleon to step down in April. He was banished on the island of Elba near Rome and the Bourbon monarchs took back all power. Napoleon then escaped from Elba in the month of February in 1815 and took back control of France. -
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Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to St. Helena
After Napoleon was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo and rejected the French throne in June 1815, Napoleon then gave himself up to the Britains. They decided to imprison him on the South Atlantic island of St. Helena on August 8, 1815, -
The Battle of Waterloo
The battle first began on June 18, 1815 when joined forces, consisting of British, Dutch, Belgian and German soldiers, prevented the attempts of European domination by the French general and Napoleon Bonaparte. The Battle of Waterloo took the lives of almost 5 million people