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Palace of Versailles being built
The Palace of Versailles was built to show the renaissances and to show that change was happening in France. Also the palace was used by the king and queen many times during the French Revolution. -
King Louis moving the capital of France from Paris to Versailles
His government started to expand so he wanted to move to some where were he was able to talk and work with everyone in his government. -
King Louis XVI marrying Marie Antoinette
Louis was 15 when he decided to marry a 14 year old girl named Marie because that was very normal during that time to marry young. -
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French Revolution
Was a time of terror and chaos and people would try to make an organized government and it didn't work. Many people would also get killed during this time. -
Bastille is Stormed
When people raided a prison and tried to get the prisoners to escape. It was a very remembered in the French revolution. -
When The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was written
It gave rights to the men and the citizens. It was basically a decoration of independence but for France. -
Women’s March on Versailles
It was women demanding bread for their families gathered together. The King met with some of the women and promised to distribute all the bread -
Tennis court Oath
Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath voting not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established". -
King Louis XVI is executed
Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. -
The Reign of Terror
In France when there was no government and anyone did what ever they want and that many people were dying and getting beheaded -
Napoleon launches a Coup d’Etat on the weak & corrupt Directory.
They overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France. The Consulate made a way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. -
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Napoleon as Emperor
This was the time when Napoleon was the emperor of France -
Creation of the Napoleonic Code
Was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America. -
Napoleon crowns himself emperor.
He became the emperor of France and he was the one who made all the rules. This all happened in Notre Dome -
Defeat in Russian Campaign
Napoleon barring trade with Great Britain was ruining the Russian economy. Tensions quickly escalated every attempt to negotiate failed. -
When Napoleon was exiled
He was exiled to a foreign island. It is said that he died of starvation, he was dehydrated, or he was poisoned, no one knows. -
Battle of Waterloo
The battle took place in Belgium. It marked the final defeat of Napoleon
