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The palace of Versailles was built in 1632 for Louis XIII. It was completed in 1634
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After expanding it to become his personal palace, it was moved to escape the turmoil that Paris was in with the Revolution.
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King Louis married Marie Antoinette on May 16, 1770 as a way to improve country relations between France and Austria.
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the council vowed "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established.
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A state prison east of Paris was stormed by Revolutionaries to capture the military armory.
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The French Revolution began on July 14, 1789, with the storming of the Bastille
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Defined individual and collective rights of man and citizen in France
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Considered by most the first big move of the revolution. Helped give revolutionaries the confidence to begin the movement.
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King Louis was convicted of Conspiracy with Foreign Powers and was executed in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
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A period of violence between two political factions in the French Revolution. The Radical Republicans and the Moderate Republicans
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Overthrew the government system under the Directory in France. Often named the definitive end of the Revolution.
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Napoleon crowned himself as emperor of France in 1804.
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Main influence on modern civil codes in the 19th century, Enacted by Napoleon in 1804
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Napoleon crowned himself as emperor to show that nobody could control him but himself. He then crowned Josephine the Empress
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Napoleon's defeat in the russian campaign was, in part, due to the harsh russian winters and french soldiers being unprepared.
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After the defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba.
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Napoleon's forces were defeated by the British and Prussians which ended French's European reign.
