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palace of Versailles built
A cool fact about the Hall of Mirrors within the palace has a total of 357 mirrors. Also, even the Versailles really went all out on the luxury in the palace and even the chamber pots were made from silver. -
When king louis moved the capital of france from paris to versalies
king Louis hoped to extract more control of the government from the nobility and to distance himself from the population of Paris. so basically he wanted to distance himself from the people of pairs and hope to get more control over the government. -
When king louis XVI married marie antoinette
They got married because their families thought that was the only way enemies of a long time could make nice. when they got married they were 14 and 15. -
The French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of major social upheaval. It sought to completely change the relationship between the rulers and those they governed and to redefine the nature of political power. Then it ended on 11/09/1799 -
Tennis court Otha
It was a commitment to a national constitution and representative government. It has become one of the most iconic scenes of the French Revolution. -
Bastille is stormed
when revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille. At the time, the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. -
When the declaration of th rights of man and of the citizen was written
The Declaration was intended to serve as a preamble to the French Constitution of 1791, which established a constitutional monarchy. In its preamble and its 17 articles, it sets out the “natural and inalienable” rights, which are freedom, ownership, security, resistance to oppression. -
Womens march on versailles
the women ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles. The crowd besieged the palace, and in a dramatic and violent confrontation, they successfully pressed their demands upon King Louis XVI. -
king louis is executed XVI
king Louis was charged with conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention. he was executed by the guillotine. -
The reign of terror
The Reign of Terror, also called The Terror, was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. France's revolutionary government ordered the arrest and execution of thousands of people. -
Napoleon launches a coup d'etat on the weak and corrupt directory
The Coup of 18 Brumaire brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France and in the view of most historians ended the French Revolution. The event is often viewed as the effective end of the French Revolution. -
creation of the Napoleonic code
Napoleon set out to reform the French legal system in accordance with the ideas of the French Revolution. they were not always called the Napoleonic code it was first known as the civil code then renamed the Napoleonic code. -
Napoleon crowns himself emperor
Napoleon's motivations for being crowned were to gain prestige in international royalist and Catholic circles and to lay the foundation for a future dynasty -
napoleon as emperor
He transformed the way in which the French army operated and turned France into the greatest military power in Europe. His confidence and ambition inspired his troops, and their victories brought glory to France. Napoleon saved France from the chaos of the French Revolution. He was no longer an Emperor on 04/6/1814 -
defeat in russia campaign
Napoleon's invasion of Russia is one of the best-studied military campaigns in history. Napoleon expected a short war, to punish Czar Alexander I for his misbehavior in leaving the Continental System. -
When he was Exiled
Napoleon's broken forces gave up and Napoleon offered to step down in favor of his son. When this offer was rejected, he abdicated and was sent to Elba. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher. The decisive battle of its age, concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever.