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may 5,1789 meeting with estates general
where; in versailles\who:the clergy,nobility, and commoners/why:the political and financial situation in france had grown rather bleak, forcing louis xvl to summon the estates general\what: marked the start of the french revolution -
Tennis Court Oath
who: third estate deputies to the estates general\what :an oath never to stop meeting until a constitution had been established\where:indoor tennis court(salle du jeu de paume)\why:the national assembly swore not to stop meeting until france had a constitution -
Storming of the Bastille
who:iconic conflict of the french revolution\what:a pivotal moment in the french revolution\where:bastille,paris\why:fears that king louis xvl was about to arrest frances newly constituted national assembly -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
who:france's national constituent assembly\what:all"men are born and remain free and equal in rights"\where:france's national assembly\why: define a single set of individual and collective rights for all men -
Women's March on Versailles
who:spontaneously organized by women in the marketplaces of paris\what:a riot that took place during this first stage of the french revolution\where:marie-antoinette was walking on the trianon estate\why:concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread -
Execution of King Louis XVI
who:charles-henri sanson\what:guillotined on january 21,1793\where:place de la revolution in paris\why:treason against the revolutionary government -
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Reign of Terror
who:maximilien robespierre\what:the reign of terror, of simply the terror (la terreur), was a climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the french revolution,which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary\where:french revolution\why:widespread fear of counter-revolutionary forces, political instability within the revolutionary government, and the radical jacobin leadership -
Maximilien Robespierre's execution
who:charles-henri sanson\what:expected by guillotine\where:place de la revolution (now the place de la concorde\why:the thermidorian reaction -
Napoleonic Code is established
who:napoleon bonaparte\what:civil code of france\where:the french consulate\why:determined to unify france itto a strong modern nation -
Napoleon Crowns himself emperor
who:napleon l\what:no information on it\where:notre-dame cathedral in paris\why:to gain prestige in international royalist and catholic circles and ot lay the foundation for a future dynasty -
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Peninsular War
who:the british army\what:no information on it\where:spin and iberian peninsula\why:frustrated by portugal's defiance of his continental blockade against trade with great britain -
Napoleon and his men march on Russia
who:french emperor napoleon bonaparte\what:the grande armee, led by french emperor napoleon bonaparte,crossed the neman river, invading russia from present-day poland\where:crossed the prussian-russian border near kovno (kaunas,modern-day lithuania,),at the river niemen\why:Napoleon's primary objective was to defeat the Imperial Russian Army and compel Czar Alexander I to rejoin to the Continental System. From 21–22 June 1812, Bonaparte stayed at Vilkaviškis Manor (in Polish: Wilkowiszky) -
Napoleon is exiled to Elba
who:the coalition\what:they exiled him to the mediterranean island of elba\where:an island in the tyrrhenian sea just 10 miles from the italian mainland\why:After the appalling battle of Lipsia, then the treaty of Fontainebleau, Napoleon, up till then the Emperor of all of Europe, is forced to abdicate from the French throne and accept a totally different type of "empire": the Island of Elba -
Napoleon dies
who:stomach cancer\what:no information on it\where:st.helena\why:stomach cancer exacerbated by bleeding gastric ulcers