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May 5, 1789 meeting with the Estates-General
ome members of the other Estates, formed the National Assembly and, against the wishes of the King, invited the other two estates to join. -
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
an expression of universal human rights those rights that are true at all times and in all places that served as one of the foundational documents of the French Revolution. -
Tennis Court Oath
There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established. -
Storming of the Bastille
prison on the east side of Paris called Bastille was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. -
Women's March on Versailles
riot that took place during this first stage of the French Revolution. -
Execution of King Louis XVI
king louis XVl was executed when he was 38 because of treason -
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Reign of Terror
mass executions of the enemies of the revolution. -
Maximillian Robespierre's execution
Robespierre had tried to kill himself with a pistol, and the second one is that he was shot by Charles-André Meda. -
Napoleon Crowns himself emperor
Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon at Notre Dame de Paris -
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Napoleonic Code
The code removed all privileges based on birth, established equality before the law and secured the right to property -
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Peninsular War
the British Army fought a war in the Iberian Peninsula against the invading forces of Napoleon's France -
Napoleon and his men march on Russia
French invasion of Russia, invasion of Russia by Napoleon I's Grande Armée from October to December in 1812 -
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Napoleon is exiled to Elba
Napoleon was forced to sign the act of abdication. The Treaty of Fontainebleau of 11 April assigned him both the Princedom of Elba -
Napoleon dies
he had been getting sicker for several months, suffering from recurrent abdominal pain, progressive weakness and abating constipation.