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Palace of Versailles built
It was built in 1631 and was made for the royals. it opened in 1634 took 3 years and was mostly for the louis's -
King Louis moved the capital of France from Paris to Versailles
He began to it at 1661. Whenever it was completed louis moved in. -
When King Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette
at the age of 15 he married Marie. Stopped in january 21 1793 -
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French Revolution
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Tennis Court Oath
members of the second and third estate got kicked out. They met at a gym and had a meeting on the tennis. -
Bastille is Stormed
A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
the French National Constituent Assembly issued the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen. It defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. -
Women’s March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October March. the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. -
King Louis is executed XVI
he was convicted of conspires and was executed. He got by the guillotine and was in public. -
The Reign of Terror
it was a period of violence during the french revolution.It was incited by conflict between two rivals. -
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napoleon emperor timeline
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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. -
Creation of the Napoleonic Code
French Code Napoléon, French civil code enacted on March 21, 1804, and still extant, with revisions. ... It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America. -
Napoleon crowns himself emperor.
Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense. -
Defeat in Russian Campaign
In the summer of 1812 Napoleon gathered his fearsome Grande Armée. more than half a million strong, on the banks of the Niemen River. -
When he was exiled
Exiled to the island of Elba, he escaped to France in early 1815 and raised a new Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success before its crushing defeat at Waterloo against an allied force under Wellington on June 18, 1815. Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815. near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time.