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Palace of Versailles built
Palace of Versailles built for the King -
King Louis moved the capital of France from Paris to Versailles
Versailles before the reign of Louis was mostly used as a royal hunting lodge; but Louis had other plans for it. In 1661, he began expanding it into his personal palace. -
King Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette
At Versailles, Louis, the French dauphin, marries Marie Antoinette, the daughter of Austrian Archduchess Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. France hoped their marriage would strengthen its alliance with Austria, its longtime enemy. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
A new Constitution -
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The Revolution
The start of it all -
Tennis Court Oath
a commitment to a national constitution and representative government -
Bastille is Stormed
revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval armory -
Women’s March on Versailles
one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution -
King Louis is executed XVI
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention -
Reign of Terror
a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. -
Napoleon launches a Coup d’Etat on the weak & corrupt Directory.
coup d'état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate -
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Napoleon
Napoleon takes power/loses power. -
Creation of the Napoleonic Code
Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era -
Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor
Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor -
Defeat napoleon's russian campaign
In the summer of 1812 Napoleon gathered his fearsome Grande Armée, more than half a million strong, on the banks of the Niemen River. He was about to undertake the most daring of all his many campaigns: the invasion of Russia -
When he was exiled
Napoleon Bonaparte, 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 -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo, in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by the British and Prussians, marked the end of his reign and of France's domination in Europe