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Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was guillotined on January 21, 1793. -
The heads of every estate 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 the government. -
The Storming of the Bastille was a state prison on the east side of Paris,known as the Bastille was attacked by an angry mob.Also since the the govern refused the mob attacked the building as well as taking over the building. -
The Tennis Court was a dramatic act of defiance where the Third Estate was trying to make the constitution for the non-privileged classes. Also they got kicked out of their meeting building in Versailles so they went to the Tennis court for their meeting. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man is where the French National Constituent Assembly where they declared the declaration of mans rights.Also it defined the individuals and collective rights of men at the time of the French revolution. -
The Reign of Terror instituted the conscripted army, which saved France from invasion by other countries and in that sense preserved the Revolution.
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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. -
It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America. It was drafted by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered into force on 21 March 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. -
At Vitoria, Spain, a massive allied British, Portuguese, and Spanish force under British General Arthur Wellesley routs the French, effectively ending the Peninsular War.
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he Grande Armée, led by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Neman River, invading Russia from present-day Poland. The result was a disaster for the French.The invasion lasted six months, and the Grande Armée lost more than 300,000 men. Russia lost more than 200,000. -
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. -
He died be ill ness of 6 weeks of dieseases -
The 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.