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The palace of Versailles is finished being built. -
King Louis moved the capital of France from Paris to Versailles -
King Louis XVI marries Marie Antoinette -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen came into existence in the summer of 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. -
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Third Estate met there at the time of the Estates General, since the Menus-Plaisirs hotel, their 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 Storming of the Bastille was an event that occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789, when revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille. At the time, the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. -
While some of the group left after the agreement, many people stayed and continued to protest. Early the next morning, some of the crowd were able to get into the palace. Fighting broke out and some of the guards were killed. Eventually, peace was restored by Marquis de Lafayette, the leader of the National Guard. -
King Louis XVI is executed. He was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. -
Maximilian Robespierre leads the Reign or Terror. It was caused in part by a rivalry between France's two leading political parties: the Jacobins and the Girondins. -
Napoleon launched a 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. The event is often viewed as the effective end of the French Revolution.
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Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era. The Civil Code (renamed the Code Napoleon in 1807) addressed mainly matters relating to property and families. -
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. -
Napoleon's invasion of Russia is one of the best studied military campaigns in history. On 24 June 1812 and the following days, the first wave of the multinational Grande Armée crossed the Niemen into Russia. -
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. -
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium. It was Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher against each other.
