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Marriage of Louis of France and Marie Antionette
Married to try to make an alliance between france and austria Source:notes -
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The french revolution
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Drought
The french were battered with multipul bad droughts leading to bad harvest source:Notes -
The formation of the national assembly
The national asaembly was created when the estates general met then the third estates was unfairly outvoted the they met in private without the other estates source:notes -
The Tennis Court Oath
The people of the natinonal assembly took an oath to not disbanned unill the french constitution was created http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/third-estate-makes-tennis-court-oath -
attack on the bastille
King Louis ordered troop to surround paris and the people of paris having little gun powder for the muskets they owned attacked the bastille which house weaponry and prisoners and tore it apart brick by brick
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Creation of the D.R.M.
The decleration of rights of man was a document drafted by the national assembly outlineing the right that all men women and children have. source:Notes -
The Bread March
The women of paris picked up anything they could use as a weapon and march to versilles kill the guards capture King Louis 16 and Marie Antionette Notes -
The Royal Escape
King Louis and Marie Antoinette and their children got into the royal carriage and almost made it out of france to austria but were captured in varennes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_to_Varennes -
The beheading of King Louis
King Louis was beheaded starting a war between france and almost all of europe source:notes -
reign of terror
This was a time span from 1793-1794 where Maximillien Robespierre ordered the execution of over 40,000 people it started with the exectution of King Louis and ended with the execution of Maxmillien Robespierre
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committee of public safety founded
the committee of public safety during the reign of terror decided who lived and who died source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety -
assassinatio of Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat the author of "L'Ami du peuple" a radical newspaper he was assassinated because the woma who killied him belived that it would stop the violance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat -
Marie Antionette's exectution
Marie Antionette was given less than a dat to prepare for an unfair trial the consisted of mostly false accusations she was found guilt and was beheaded source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette -
Exectution of Maximillien robespierre
Maximillien Robespierre was killing way to many people he had become power hungry and was exectuted and the marked the ed of the reign of terror source:History movie/Notes -
Napoleans rise to power
During the revolultion napolean rose through the military he commanded his million man army and took over most of europe source:notes -
Result of the French Revolution
As a reslut of the french revolution the french got rid of monoarchy for good in france and the enlightenment ideas spread through europe source:notes
