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The heads of every state in 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, French Serment du Jeu de Paume dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the non privileged classes of the French nation the Third Estate during the meeting of the Estates-General a traditional assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution. -
People storm a castle because they wanted gunpowder and weapons. It was a turning point in the french -
The declaration says that all men are born free and equal. Set in french. -
One woman marched with a drum and brought thousands of people with weapons and marched to the king.
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A secret cupboard containing proof of Louis' counter-revolutionary beliefs and correspondence with foreign powers was discovered in Tuileries Palace. He was brought to trial for treason and executed by guillotine -
The Reign of Terror instituted the conscripted army, which saved France from invasion by other countries and in that sense preserved the Revolution. Reign of Terror, also called The Terror, French La Terreur
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After a year of harsh rule by Robespierre, many of the revolutionary leaders had had enough of the Terror. They turned on Robespierre and had him arrested. He was executed, along with many of his supporters, by guillotine on July 28, 1794. -
Napoleonic Code, French Code Napoléon, French civil code enacted on March 21, 1804, and still extant, with revisions. It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America. -
On May 18, 1804, Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense. The royal court of the French Emperor became a public spectacle of pomp and elegance.
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The Peninsular War was the military conflict fought by Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal against the invading and occupying forces of France for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence.
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On June 24, 1812, the Grande Armée, led by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Neman River, invading Russia from present-day Poland. -
On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5th, 1821