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May 5th 1789 Meeting with the Estates-General
The heads of every Estate of France met to try to reform the government and economy. It pushed the French Revolution forward because when the 3rd Estate realized they were being ignored, they broke away from the government. -
Tennis Court Oath
Act of defiance by representatives of the Third Estate during the meeting of the Estate-General at the beginning of the French Revolution. -
Storming of the Bastille
Troops storm and dismantle the Bastille. This action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, in witch king louis the XVl was overthrown and tens of thousands were killed. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
the French National Constitute Assembly issued the declaration of the right of man. witch defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. -
Women's March on Versailles
was an important event at the start of the French Revolution. It gave the revolutionaries confidence in the power of the people over the king. -
Execution of King Louis XVI
King Louis the XVl was guillotined on January 21, 1793 dearing the French Revolution. -
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Reign of Terror
Instituted the conscript army, which saved france from invasion by other countries and preserved the Revolution. -
Maximillian Robespierre's execution
The revolutionary leaders had enough of Robespierre's terror. They turned on him and arrested him, then soon after executed him by guillotine. -
Napoleonic Code is established
French civil code enacted on March 21, 1804. It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of continental Europe and Latin America. -
Napoleon Crowns himself emperor
on May 18, 1804 Napoleon pronounced himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. But the ceremony took place December 2, 1804 -
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Peninsular War
The Peninsular War was the conflict fought by spain, the United kingdom and Portugal against the invading and occupying forces of france for control of the Iberian Peninsula. -
Napoleon and his men march on Russia
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte lead the Grande Armee into Russia. This would be a disaster for the French loosing more than 300,000 men. -
Napoleon is exiled to Elba
Napoleon Bonaparte, abdicated the throne, and in the treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
Napoleon dies
in the British held island of Saint Helena Napoleon Died on May 5, 1821, at the age 51, most likely from stomach cancer.