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Palace of Versailles built
The palace of Versailles was finished in 1631 -
King Louis moved the capital of France from Paris to Versailles
hoped to extract more control of the government from the nobility and to distance himself from the population of Paris. -
King Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette
The young couple became married and had multiple kids during their marriage. -
When The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was written
born of an idea of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed by the assembly of the Estates General to draft a new Constitution, and precede it with a declaration of principles -
Bastille is Stormed
fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath was taken on 20 June 1789 by the members of the French Third Estate in a tennis court on the initiative of Jean Joseph Mounier. -
Women’s March on Versailles
The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were nearly rioting over the high price of bread -
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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 took place in response to the Federalist revolts -
King Louis XVI is executed
The monarchy was formally abolished, and “Year I” of the French Republic was declared. Louis XVI died at the guillotine on 21 January 1793 -
Napoleon launches a Coup d’Etat on the weak & corrupt Directory
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 -
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Napoleon as Emperor
He led the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804, then ruled the French Empire as Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1814, -
Creation of the Napoleonic Code
the resulting 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 crowns himself emperor
Napoleon I and his wife Joséphine were crowned Emperor and Empress of the French on Sunday, December 2, 1804 at Notre-Dame de Paris in Paris. -
Defeat in Russian Campaign
Napoleon's army eventually reached a Moscow abandoned and destroyed by the Russian army based on the scorched-earth policy -
When he was exiled
They exiled him to the Mediterranean island of Elba and restored the Bourbons to power. -
Battle of Waterloo
It concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever. -
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French Revoloution
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France which began with the Estates General of 1789