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By ryansbuckets
  • Period: 1789 BCE to

    French revolution

  • Palace of Versailles built

    Built for the king to live in. The chief offices of state were there so Louis could keep an eye on them

  • When King Louis moved the capital of France from Paris to Versailles

    Louis moved in and changed the capital from Paris to versailles to escape the turmoil
  • Period: to

    Napoleon

  • When King Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette

    They got married when he was 15 and she was 14 and it ended on January 21, 1793

  • Tennis Court Oath

    3rd estate renames itself national assembly and and decides to draw up a new constitution

  • Bastille is Stormed

    A prison on the east side of Paris known as Bastille and was attacked by an angry aggressive mob which made the prison become a symbol of monarchy dictational rule

  • When The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was written

    It showed individual rights at the time of the French revolution

  • Women’s March on Versailles

    Also known as October March which was one of the earliest events in the French revolution

  • King Louis is executed XVI

    Got sentenced to death after the conspiracy theory that he met with foreign powers

  • The Reign of Terror

    A battle between two political sides, which caused mass executions and many people were killed using the guillotine

  • Napoleon launches a Coup d’Etat on the weak & corrupt Directory.

    coup d'etat that overthrew the system of government under the directory in France and substituted the Consulate

  • Creation of the Napoleonic Code

    Main influence on the 19th-century civil codes

  • Napoleon crowns himself emperor.

    Napoleon claimed himself emperor and made Josephine empress

  • Defeat in Russian Campaign

    Napoleon went on a March in Moscow, in the city where the Russians were at.

  • Battle of Waterloo

    The battle of Waterloo which Napoleon's army was defeated by British and the Prussians

  • When he was exiled

    Exiled to the island Elba, he escaped to France in the early 1815's and they raised a new army that had temporary success before they were defeated against an allied force that's under Wellington