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It was originally a hunting lodge for King Louis XIII. Then King Louis XIV expanded the hunting lodge into a palace. -
He moved the capital so he could have more control over the government. He also hoped to separated himself from Paris's population. -
Dauphin Louis and Marie-Antoinette marry. She didn't love him at first but eventually she did develop a fondness for him. -
The American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (American Declaration) is a non-binding declaration on the fundamental human rights to an individual. It outlines the economic, social and cultural rights, as well as equality under the law. -
People believe and agree that it was caused by a combination of economic, social and political problems. The king had ran the kingdom into the dirt by raising taxes and not doing much for the people.
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French Third Estate took the Jeu de Paume Oath in the tennis court. In the Tennis Court Oath, representatives of the non-clergy and non-nobles of France swore they would not disperse until a constitution was established for France. -
On the morning of July 14, 1789, hundreds of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a state prison, seizing 250 barrels of gunpowder and freeing its prisoners. The storming of the Bastille was a pivotal moment in the French Revolution, the violent result of a multitude of social, economic, and political crises. -
Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles on October 5, 1789. This became one of the most significant events of the French Revolution, eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris. -
Arrested in Varennes, he was brought back to Paris. In 1792 he was tried by the revolutionaries. -
The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions that took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety. A lot of people died because someone accused them. -
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. The event is often viewed as the effective end of the French Revolution. -
Napoleon crowned himself and crowned Josephine as empress. Napoleon was the most successful general in 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 crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. According to legend, during the coronation he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself, thus displaying his rejection of the authority of the Pontiff. -
The only major battle of the campaign, at Borodino on 7 September 1812, ended with a territorial gain for Napoleon but at a very high cost. Napoleon's army eventually reached a Moscow abandoned and destroyed by the Russian army based on the scorched-earth policy. -
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815 between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher. The decisive battle of its age, it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever. -
The Allies responded by forming a Seventh Coalition, which defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. The British exiled him to the remote island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic, where he died in 1821 at the age of 51.