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May 5, 1789 meeting with the Estates-General
Louis XVI, divided over a fundamental issue, Versailles, bc France, both government and people, was broke. -
Tennis Court Oath
Protestant Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint- Etienne, Finding themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles, and thinking that the king was forcing them to disband, Salle du Jeu de Paume, it represented the power of the people. -
Storming of the Bastille
Hundreds of Parisians, the prison was attacked and overtaken by protestors at the start of the French Revolution, Bastille Paris, fears that king XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly. -
The Declaration of the Right of Man
The Marquis de Lafayette with the help of Thomas Jefferson, men are born free and remain free and have equal rights, Frances National Constituent Assembly, established the rights of French people to limit the power of the government. -
Women's March on Versailles
Women in the marketplace of Paris, several hundred women staged a protest against the high price of bread at the City Hall, Palace of Versailles, Concerned over the high cost and scarcity of bread. -
Execution of King Louis XVI
Charles-Henri Sanson, political instability, social inequality, and economic distress, Place de la Revolution in Paris, found guilty of treason. -
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Reign of Terror
Maximilien Robespierre, a period of extreme violence and mass executions, France, took harsh measures against those suspected of being enemies of the Revolution. -
Maximilien Robespierre's execution
Cecile Rensalt, Guillotine, Place de la Revolution, Paris, The Thermidorian Reaction. -
Napoleonic Code is established
Napoleon Bonaparte Civil code of France, the French Consulate, determined to unity France into a strong modern nation. -
Napoleon Crowns himself emperor
Napoleon I, was famously seized it from the Pope's hands and placed it on his head, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, to gain prestige in international royalist and Catholic circles and to lay the foundation for a future dynasty. -
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Peninsular War
The British Army, to advance on and capture the Confederate Capital of Richmond, Virgina, via the Virginia Peninsula situated between the James and York Rivers, Iberian Peninsula, Frustrated by Portugal's definiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britain -
Napoleon and his men March on Russia
Barclay de Tolly and Pyotr Bagration, the Grande Armee, across the river Neman, in an attempt to force Tsar Alexander I to cease trading with Britain -
Napoleon is exiled to Elba
The coalition, the Mediterranean island of Elba, Poroferraios harbor on Molo Elba, Napoleon Bonaparte disastrous campaign in Russia ended in defeat -
Napoleon Dies
Napoleon, from stomach cancer, on the island of Saint Helena, possibly from stomach cancer, although some theories contend he was poisoned