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May 5, 1789 meeting with the Estates-General
It marks the beginning of the French Revolution. -
Tennis Court Oath
On June 20th the tennis court was taken. It was a meeting that never stopped until constitution was established. -
Storming of the Bastille
The Bastille was a large medieval fortress that functioned as a prison in Paris in 1789. It had become a symbol of all that the French resented about their country and their government: corruption in the nobility -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Liberty, Property, Safety and Resistance to Oppression. -
Women's March on Versailles
women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles on October 5, 1789. -
Execution of King Louis XVI
Louis XVI was put to death by guillotine. He was put to death for high treason. -
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Reign of Terror
the leader of the Jacobin club, used a revolutionary tribunal to arrest people who seemed to be against the republic nation. They were guillotined, when found guilty. -
Maximillian Robespierre's execution
Robespierre and his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris -
Napoleon Crowns himself emperor
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. -
Napoleonic Code is established
The Napoleonic Code was the result of a major revision to France's legal system, which was outdated and confusing at the time. -
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Peninsular War
the British Army fought a war in the Iberian Peninsula against the invading forces of Napoleon's France. -
Napoleon and his men march on Russia
On June 24, 1812, Napoleon's army of over 600,000 men crossed the Niemen River from present-day Poland into Russia. -
Napoleon is exiled to Elba
The coalition invaded France and captured Paris, forcing Napoleon to abdicate in April 1814. They exiled him to the Mediterranean island of Elba and restored the Bourbons to power. In February 1815. -
Napoleon dies
he physicians who conducted Napoleon's autopsy, on May 6, 1821, concluded that his death was from stomach cancer, exacerbated by bleeding gastric ulcers, after a huge dose of calomel