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Louis XVI’s death
King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before his deposition and execution during the French Revolution. -
reighn of terror
period of viuolence that occured after the onset of the frence revolution between the Girondins and the Jacobins.over 40,000 people died. -
Napoleonic Code
forbaded privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor of France
the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head. -
Peninsular War
AKA the Spanish War of Independence in the French occupation destroyed the Spanish administration, which fragmented into quarrelling provincial juntas. -
Battle of Leipzig
AKA battle of the nations. fought by the armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine. -
Exile to Elba
In the Treaty of Fontainebleau, the victors exiled him to Elba, an island of 12,000 inhabitants in the Mediterranean -
Congress of Vienna
a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna. -
Hundred Days
sometimes known as the Hundred Days of Napoleon or Napoleon's Hundred Days marked the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815. -
battle of waterloo
A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher.
