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Louis XVI calls the estate general
because France, both government and people, was broke -
Writing of the Declaration of the rights of men
The Marquis de Lafayette, with the help of Thomas Jefferson, composed a draft of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. -
Parisians storming the bastille
fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille. -
Tennis Court Oath
representatives of the non-clergy and non-nobles of France swore they would not disperse until a constitution was established for France. -
March on Versailles
forcing the royal court and family to move from the traditional seat of government in Versailles to Paris. -
Establishment of the New French constitution
began the process of drafting a constitution as its primary objective. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. -
Execution of the King and Queen
Some republicans called for the king's deposition, others for his trial for alleged treason and intended defection to the enemies of the French nation. -
Reign of terror
first time in history that terror became an official government policy with the stated aim to use violence to achieve a higher political goal -
Napoleon overthrows the directory
ended the French Revolution and led to the coronation of Napoleon as emperor. -
Napoleon builds an empire
Napoleon greatly assisted in defeating the First Coalition in 1792–1797, in which the newly formed French republic -
Napoleon invades russia
initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom. -
The congress of vienna meets
discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. -
6th coalition occupies paris
Following Napoleon's retreat from Russia and the subsequent defeat of his army by the Sixth Coalition at Leipzig (1813), the armies of the Sixth Coalition invaded France and advanced toward Paris -
King Louis XVIII begins his reign
The grandson of Louis XV and brother of Louis XVI, Louis Stanislas Xavier declared himself King of France in 1795, before officially becoming King Louis XVIII in 1814 at the fall of the Empire. -
Napoleon defeated at waterloo
between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher.