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Louis XIII decided to build the Palace in 1631. Construction continued until 1634 and laid the basis of the Palace we know today. -
When the palace was completed in 1682, Louis moved in, and changed the capital from Paris to Versailles. -
At Versailles, Louis married Marie Antoinette. France hoped their marriage would strengthen its alliance with Austria, its longtime enemy. -
The usual meeting place, had been closed by order of the king. On that day, they took an oath not to separate until they had endowed France with a written constitution. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man was written in 1789, born of an idea of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed by the assembly of the Estates General to draft a new Constitution, and precede it with a declaration of principles. -
Women ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles. -
Bastille was a state prison on the east side of Paris, and it was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. -
The Reign of Terror begins when Robespierre declares Terror "the order of the day." This marks the beginning of almost two years of repressing perceived enemies of the Revolution.
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The king was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. -
Coup of 18–19 Brumaire, coup d'état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. -
Napoleon eventually abolished the Consulate and declared himself Emperor Napoleon I of France. -
Napoleonic Code, French Code Civil, French civil code enacted by Napoleon in 1804.
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Napoleon and his Army of 600,000 men invaded Russia. It was a big mistake, they were defeated horribly. -
The Battle of Waterloo, in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by the British and Prussians, marked the end of his reign and of France's domination in Europe. -
Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa after his defeat at Waterloo.
