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The Estates-General summoned King Louie to help solve Frances financial problems.
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The Tennis Court Oath was a pledge taken by Third Estate to come meet here every day until they had a constitution was made.
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A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was taken over by the third estate and they took all the guns.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, was a human civil rights document that gave people rights.
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One of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. They broke into the city armoy and marched into Versailles.
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After being convicted of conspiracy he was sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine.
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The Reign of Terror, commonly called The Terror, was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place
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Robespierre was arrested with many of his supporters and executed by ways of the guillotine
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Gave post revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws.
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Napoleon proclaims himself emperor of france.
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France fought over the Iberian Peninsula. He fought against the British, Spanish, and portugal.
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Napoleon marched on Russia to push them back into the blockade of the United Kingdom. Lack of food, diseases, hypothermia, and guerrilla warfare led to many important losses.
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Napoleon offered to step down so his son could take charge, when this was rejected renounced his throne and was sent to Elba.
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Napoleon dies from stomach cancer at age 51 standing at 5´6.