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Execution of a King
The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place DE la Revolution in Paris. It was a major event of the French Revolution. -
“What is the Third Estate”
is a political pamphlet written in January 1789, shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution, by the French thinker and clergyman Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès. -
National Assembly
it was the name of the revolutionary assembly formed by representatives of the Third Estate; thereafter (until replaced by the Legislative Assembly on Sept. 30, 1791) its formal name was National Constituent Assembly (Assemble Nation , Constitute), though popularly the shorter form persisted. -
Tennis Court Oath
the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established." It was a pivotal event in the early days of the French Revolution. -
Parisians storming the Bastille
the Bastille is The medieval fortress and prison in Paris.to represented royal authority in the center of Paris. The prison contained just seven inmates at the time of its storming but was a symbol of the abuse of the monarchy: its fall was the flash point of the French Revolution. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Declaration of the rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. -
Bread March
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. -
Radicals fight for power and declare war
In October 1791, the newly elected Legislative Assembly took office. Faced with crises at home and abroad, it survived for less than a year. Economic problems fed renewed turmoil. Assignats , the revolutionary currency, dropped in value, causing prices to rise rapidly. Uncertainty about prices led to hoarding and caused additional food shortages. -
Legislative Assembly
The Legislative Assembly (French: Assemble legislative) was the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to 20 September 1792 during the years of the French Revolution. -
Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror (6 September 1793 – 28 July 1794), also known as The Terror (French: la Terreur), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Gridirons and The Mountain, and marked by mass executions of "enemies -
Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic Code (French: Code Napoleon, and officially Code civil des Franglais) is the French civil code established under Napoleon I in 1804. It was drafted by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered into force on 21 March 1804. -
Napoleon Bonaparte Crowned Emperor
The coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French took place on Sunday December 2, at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. It marked "the instantiate of modern empire" and was a "transparently masterminded piece of modern propaganda" -
The Russian Winter & Napoleon
It was the invancion from france to russia but the weather so cold France lost the battle and thousands of soldiers were killed -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
