French Revolution/Age of Napoleon

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  • Meeting With The Estates-General

    The opening of the Estates General in Versailles also marked the start of the French Revolution.

  • Tennis Court Oath

    French Serment du Jeu Paume dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the non privileged classes of the French nation.

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    fundamental document of the French Revolution that granted civil rights to some commoners.

  • Women's March on Versailles

    It gave the revolutionaries confidence in the power of the people over the king.
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    Reign of Terror

    It began with the overthrow of the Girondins and the ascendancy of the Jacobins under Robespierre.

  • Execution of King Louis XVI

    Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were executed for reason.

  • Maximilien Robespierre's execution

    after a year of harsh rule by Robespierre the revolution leaders had enough and turned on him and arrested him. He was executed along with many of his supporters.

  • Napoleonic Code is established

    The Resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era.

  • Napoleon Crowns himself emperor

    napoleon proclaimed himself emperor and made Josephine Empress.
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    Peninsular War

    sending an army to invade Portugal weakened the French empire because over 300,00 men were lost in the war.

  • Napoleon and his men march on Russia

    the Grande Armee led by Napoleon crossed the Neman River invading Russia. The results was a disaster for the French.

  • Napoleon is exiled to Elba

    abdicates the throne and in the Treaty of Fontainebleau is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.

  • Napoleon dies

    sic years after he is banished he dies from stomach cancer.

  • Storming of the Bastille

    A state prison on the east side of Paris was attacked by the angry and aggressive mob.