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Palace of Versailles Built
Built by Louis XIV as a hunting lodge but then was expanded into a hunting lodge. -
King Louis moved the capital of France from Paris to Versailles
Once the palace of Versailles was built the king loved the building so much that he decided to make it the capital. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was written
All men are born free and equal, and that the purpose of government is to protect their rights -
Tennis Court Oath
a vow made by representatives of the Third Estate to not separate until a constitution was established for France. -
Bastille is Stormed
Fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille -
Women’s March on Versailles
A march of working women to the palace of Versailles, protesting the price of bread. -
The Reign of Terror
Violence during the French Revolution, public execution were a common thing roughly 27,000 people. -
King Louis XVI is executed
Executed by guillotine. He was seen as a traitor and a public enemy. -
King Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette
An arranged marriage sort of situation. The marriage was troubled and there was not much interest between the couple. -
Napoleon launches a Coup d’Etat on the weak & corrupt Directory.
Overthrowing of the government of the French Directory and replaced it with the French Consulate -
Creation of the Napoleonic Code
Established the principle of legal equality, abolishing feudal privileges and ensuring that all citizens were subject to the same laws -
Napoleon crowns himself emperor.
Napoleon I and his wife Joséphine were crowned Emperor and Empress of the French. Napoleon crowned himself and his wife to give himself a since of power over the church (Because normally a priest crowns the new king) -
Defeat in Russian Campaign
Napoleon's army eventually reached a Moscow abandoned and destroyed by the Russian army based on the scorched-earth policy -
Napoleon was Exiled
Napoleon was exiled to the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, where he died of stomach cancer in 1821, aged 51 -
Battle of Waterloo
Ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever