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The opening of the Estates General, on 5 May 1789 in Versailles, also marked the start of the French Revolution.
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On June 20, 1789, the Tennis Court Oath was made. This meant that the tennis court was taken, this being a key event that started the french revolution. The men of the National Assembly swore an oath never to stop meeting until a constitution had been established.
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its 17 articles, it sets out the “natural and inalienable” rights, which are freedom, ownership, security, resistance to oppression; it recognizes equality before the law and the justice system, and affirms the principle of separation of powers.
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The Storming of the Bastille was in Paris, France, July 14 1789, when revolutionary rebels attempted to storm and take away control of the medieval armoury, fortress and political prison known as the Bastille. After a lot of fighting, the governor of the fortress allowed the rebels to enter the Bastille. Contrary to what had been agreed, the rebels killed the governor.
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Women's March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The march started among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on 5 October 1789, were nearly rioting over the high price of bread.
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He was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793.
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This was a climactic period of state prohibited violence during the French Revolution, which showed the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary 'suspects' between September 1793 and July 1794
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The radical Jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution. In the latter months of 1793 he came to dominate the Committee of Public Safety, the principal organ of the Revolutionary government during the Reign of Terror, but in 1794 he was overthrown and executed in the Thermidorian Reaction on July 28, 1794.
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Enacted on March 21, 1804, the resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era.
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Napoleon was crowned Emperor of the French on Sunday, December 2, 1804 , at Notre-Dame de Paris in Paris. It marked "the instantiation of the modern empire" and was a "transparently masterminded piece of modern propaganda".
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Peninsular War was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
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The 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.
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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.
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By May 5, 1821, he had been getting sicker for several months, suffering from recurrent abdominal pain, progressive weakness and unabating constipation.