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On October 11th, 1661, King Louis XIV spent $100 million to build the Versailles Palace.
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Louis XIV dies in 1715, leaving France in debt.
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The Enlightment, or Age of Reason reaches it's highest peak in France.
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At the age of just fifteen, Louis XVI married fourteen year old Austrain, Marie Antoinette.
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In 1774, Louis XV dies leaving France in debt yet again, from wars fought during his time. At this point, Louis XVI takes ovr, but the people of France are very poor and hungry.
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On July 4th, the Declaration of Indpendece was written and the colonists win the American Revoultion in 1781.
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A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan, since peasants were very angry with the tax.
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The Third Estate declares themselves the National Assembly and took the Tennis Court Oath.
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The people of Paris feared that Louis would ues force to dismiss the National Assembly, so they went to Bastille, and destroyed it. Shortly after that, The Great Fear began.
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On August 26th, 1789, the National Assembly of France approved the Declaration of Rights of Man. This document guarenteed freedoms of euality, press, religion, and justice.
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The royal family tries to escape in June of 1791, but gets caught and arrested.
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Guillotine is introduced to France.
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In early 1793, King Louis is executed at the Place de la Révolution, by a guillotine. It was a major event in the French Revolution.
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A Jacobian leader Maximillien Robespierre is gaining power and he wants to erase all of France's past. He becomes a leader of the Committe of Public Saftey and becomes a dictator of France and rules for a year. His ruling period was known as the Reign of Terror.
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Jean-Paul Marat, a member of political group Jacobins, is stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
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A few months after King Louis was executed, his wife, Marie Antoinette was executed in the same place as Louis by a guillotine.
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Robespierre was executed without trial on July 28th, 1794 by guillotine, thus ending the phase of the revolution.
