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Louis XVI was the monarch of France during the French Revolution till the monarchy was abolished and France was declared a Republic. He was born Louis-August on 23rd August 1754 in the French Palace of Versailles.
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Napoleon was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. Born on the island of Corsica, Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution
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On August 15, 1769, in the Corsican city of Ajaccio, Napoleons was born.
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The American Revolution was a political battle that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the 13 American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America.
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On July 14, rioters stormed the Bastille fortress in an attempt to secure gunpowder and weapons; many consider this event, as the start of the French Revolution
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Napoleons was sent to college in 1779, with his older brother , Joseph, to the College of Austin Burgundy, France
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July 1789, the declaration became a cornerstone document of the French Revolution – and according to some historians, its greatest legacy. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen served as a preamble to all three revolutionary constitutions and a cornerstone document for political clubs and movements.
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Monarchy abolished in France during the Revolutionary France, the Legislative Assembly votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the First Republic. The measure came one year after King Louis XVI reluctantly approved a new constitution that stripped him of much of his power.
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14 July 1789, Bastille was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.
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The Constitution of 1791 began on June 20th 1789, when the newly formed National Assembly gathered in a Versailles tennis court and pledged not to disband until France had a working constitution.
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The data couldn't match the Swiss Guard surrendered at the Tuileries. The mob hacked some 600 to death, then mutilated the bodies.
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The Terror had an economic side embodied in the Maximum, a price-control measure demanded by the lower classes of Paris, and a religious side that was embodied in the program of de-Christianize
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Robespierre was elected to the Committee of Public Safety, which was formed in April to protect France against its enemies, foreign and domestic, and to oversee the government
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In 1795, Napoleon helped suppress a royalist insurrection against the revolutionary government in Paris and was promoted to major general.
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Napoleon stepped down in April. Louis XVIII, the brother of Louis XVI, was placed on the French throne. Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba, but after ten months he made plans to return to power.
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Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned “Emperor of the French”. France had just undergone a revolution to overthrow the monarchy. Napoleon had absolute power not because he was emperor, but because he still held the position of First Consul of the First French Republic
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Napoleon died on May 5, 1821, he was exiled to the remote, British-held island of Saint Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean. Due to most likely from stomach cancer.
