French Revolution By apowell24 May 6, 1682 Capital from Paris to Versailles https://socratic.org/questions/why-did-louis-xiv-change-the-capital-of-france-from-paris-to-versailles 1688 John Locke https://www.iep.utm.edu/locke/ 1762 Catherine the Great https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/russian-soviet-and-cis-history-biographies/catherine-great May 16, 1770 Louis xvi marrying Marie http://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/key-dates/marriage-dauphin-louis-and-marie-antoinette 1789 Fails to take Egypt https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_3.html Period: May 5, 1789 to Nov 9, 1799 Absolutism https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/france-in-the-seventeenth-century/absolutism-and-france/ Jul 14, 1789 Bastille is Stormed https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/french-revolutionaries-storm-bastille Aug 20, 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man Drafted https://www.britannica.com/topic/Declaration-of-the-Rights-of-Man-and-of-the-Citizen Aug 26, 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man Approved http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp Oct 4, 1789 Womans March On Versailles https://www.historywiz.com/womensmarch.htm Aug 10, 1792 Storming of Tuileries Palace https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/attack-on-the-tuileries/ Apr 6, 1793 Committee of Public Safety https://www.britannica.com/event/Reign-of-Terror Sep 5, 1793 Reign of Terror https://www.britannica.com/event/Reign-of-Terror Mar 21, 1804 Napoleonic Code https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/napoleonic-code-approved-in-france Period: May 18, 1804 to Apr 6, 1814 Napoleon as emperor https://www.history.com/topics/france/napoleon Jun 24, 1812 Defeat in russia https://www.history.com/news/napoleons-disastrous-invasion-of-russia-200-years-ago Jun 18, 1815 Exiled to the Island of Corsica https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/napoleon-dies-in-exile Jun 18, 1815 Battle of Waterloo https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/battle-of-waterloo Dec 2, 1851 Coup D'etat http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Depot-legal-du-ministere-de-la-Culture
