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Palace of Versailles is built
The construction of the palace of Versailles started in 1631. The construction wasn't completed until 1634. -
The movement of the capital
King Louis moved the capital of France from Paris to Versailles. This was in an attempt to escape the turmoil in Paris. -
A marriage of countries
King Louis XVI marries Marie Antoinette of Austria. This was an arranged marriage between two young heirs for an ally of two countries. -
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french revolution
The French Revolution began in May 1789 when the Ancien Régime was abolished in favour of a constitutional monarchy. Its replacement in September 1792 by the First French Republic led to the execution of Louis XVI in January 1793 and an extended period of political turmoil. -
Tennis court oath
On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the tennis court oath voting "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established". -
Bastille is stormed
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. -
When The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was written
On 26 August 1789, the French National Constituent Assembly issued the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. -
Women’s March on Versailles
On the morning of October 5, 1789, a large group of women in a Paris marketplace began to revolt. They wanted to buy bread for their families. They began to march through Paris demanding bread at a fair price. -
The death of a monarch
King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine. -
reign of terror
essentially everyone went metal and started killing every one of nobility. -
Napoleon launched a Coup d'Etat on the weak and corrupt Directory
coup d'état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. The event is often viewed as the effective end of the French Revolution. -
Creation of the Napoleonic Code
After four years of debate and planning, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework for France, known as the “Napoleonic Code.” The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights. -
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Napoleon as emperor
Napoleon became emperor of France. -
Napoleon crowns himself as emperor
On May 18, 1804, Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris -
Defeat in Russian Campaign
The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian campaign, began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian Army. -
WATERLOO! I WAS DEFEATED YOU WON THE WAR!!
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time. napoleon #lost. -
Napoleons exile
Exiled to the island of Elba, he escaped to France in early 1815 and raised a new Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success before its crushing defeat at Waterloo against an allied force under Wellington on June 18, 1815. Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa.
