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louis XVI calls the Estes General
A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan.On 5 May 1789, amidst general festivities.the Estates-General convened in an elaborate but temporary. -
storming of the Bastille
The Stoming of the Bastille was to gain gun powder. So the people defend themself form the king troops. This is what started the revolution. -
declaration of the man and of the citizen
is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. Influenced by the doctrine of "natural right", the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself. -
women's march on versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March. Early in the morning of October 5, 1789, a large group of French women came together in the central marketplace of Paris. The Women's March to Versailles, October 5-6, 1789. Because of poor harvests in 1788 and 1789, supplies of grain fell well short of their usual level, the price of bread rose dramatically in 1789. -
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
"[Olympe] De Gouges was a butcher's daughter; who wrote several plays and a number of pamphlets on the coming Estates General. On a variety of issues, including slavery, which she attacked as being founded on greed and blind prejudice. This was during the hight of the French Revolution. -
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King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are executed
King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason and sentenced to be guillotined. Her last words were, "Monsieur, I ask your pardon. I did not do it on purpose." -
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Reigon of terror
Caught up in civil war, the Revolutionary government decided to make Terror the order decree and to take harsh measures against those suspected of being enemies of the Revolution nobles, priests, hoarders. In Paris a wave of executions followed. In the provinces, representatives on mission and surveillance -
Napolen defeat at waterloo
Nopolen arme was defeated by the prussian. He wae Exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean. He escaped to France in early 1815 and set up a new regime. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor of France
He placed the crown on hie own head and not the pope. He said "I am the first frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years." He proclaimed himself emperor on may 18,1804.
