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Palace of Versailles built
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When King Louis moved the capital of France from Paris to Versailles
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When King Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette
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When The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was written
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french revolution
The French Revolution was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799 -
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Tennis Court Oath
dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French nation (the Third Estate) during the meeting of the Estates-General -
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Bastille is Stormed
The main reason why the rebel Parisians stormed the Bastille was not to free any prisoners but to get ammunition and arms. -
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Women’s March on Versailles
These events ended the king's independence and signified the change of power and reforms about to overtake France. -
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King Louis is executed XVI
revolutionary beliefs and correspondence with foreign powers was discovered in Tuileries Palace. He was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine -
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The Reign of Terror
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Napoleon launches a Coup d’Etat on the weak & corrupt Directory
oup 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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Creation of the Napoleonic Code
he 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. -
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Napoleon as Emperor
Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony -
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor.
Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. According to legend, during the coronation he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself, thus displaying his rejection of the authority of the Pontiff. -
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defeat in russian campaign
the Battle of Krasnoi Napoleon was able to avoid a complete defeat. Meanwhile, he was almost without cavalry and artillery and deployed the Old Guard for the first time.624 -
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when napoleon was exiled
emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
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battle of waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was a conflict on June 18, 1815, during the Hundred Days, the period from Napoleon's escape from exile to the return of Louis XVIII.