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timeline of French revolution

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1774- louis xvi ascends the throne at the age of 20.
1789-  louis xvi calls an estates general meeting on 5th May and rejects the demand of the third estate for one vote per member in the estate general. the third estate change their name to the national assembly and decide to form a constitution for france which will reduce the powers of the king. on 14th July, the prison Bastille is destroyed completely and all the political prisoners in it are released.
1791- France becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1792- France becomes a republic.
1793- louis xvi gets guillotined by the Jacobin Government and his queen, Marie Antoinette also met with the same fate later after some months.
1793 to 1794- rise of the Jacobin Government, also known as the Reign of Terror.
1794- the head of the Jacobin government, Maximilian Robespierre himself gets guillotine on some charges.
1795 to 1796- rise of the Directory Government
1797- Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power and becomes the unofficial emperor of France.
1804- Napoleon Bonaparte declares himself the official emperor of France. He also made some codes or laws which came to be known as the Civil Code, 1804. the code became so famous that it is popularly known as the Napoleonic Code.
1815- Napoleon Bonaparte gets defeated in the Battle Of Waterloo and exiled for the rest of his life in an island known as St. Helena in the Caribbean for the rest of his life until his death in in 1821.
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