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Old Regime
How France was run before the French Revolution -
Tennis Court Oath Taken
When the National Assembly was locked out of the meeting of the Estates General to discuss new laws so the national assembly broke into a tennis court and took this oath to keep meeting until changes were made in France -
Storming the Bastille
When the French broke into the Bastille freeing 7 prisoners and taking the gun powder to attack the swiss guards and Louis -
The Great Fear
When 60,000 Parisian women marched to Versaillesbroke into the palace and took the king and queen as captives -
Beginning of the Revolution
Started when Louis XVI ignored the enourmous debt in France -
Constitutional Monarchy
National Assembly wrote a constitution making France a constitutional monarchy and kept Louis and Mary alive -
Louis
Louis XVI was executed -
Reign of Terror
Robespierre and the Committee for Public Safety starts killing thousands of people because they were paranoid about traitors and many innocent people lost their lives -
Ending of the Terror
Mid 1974 The Reign of Terror died out -
Napoleon Comes to Power
In 1800 a plebiscite was taken to support Napoleons Constitution -
Napoleon Crowns Himself
Napoleon took the crown and put it on his head instead of the pope crowning him this showed Napoleon was more powerful than the church -
Battle of Trafalgar
Naval Battle that was fought between Britain and Napoleon that the British won -
Invading Russia
Napoleon invaded Russia unprepared for harsh weather, diseases, no food and Russians burning everything -
Congress of Vienna
Representatives from European countries that met in Vienna, Austria to discuss how to return France back to normal after Napoleons rule -
Battle of Waterloo
Battle fought between Napoleon and the third coalition when Napoleon escaped from Elba the island he was banished to and the third coalition won -
Napoleon died
Napoleon died of the second island he was exiled to Saint Helena