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France Wilson Guerra
- Wilson Guerra
- 1608
- 1667-1672
- In 1667 and 1672, Louis XIV
fought two wars for Spanish
and Dutch territory,
winning prestige for France,
but little else.
- 1679
- 1682
- In 1682, Robert Cavalier de la
Salle sailed
down the Mississippi River to
the Gulf of Mexico. La Salle
claimed the entire Mississippi
Valley for France and named it
Louisiana in honor of Louis XIV.
- 1697
- In 1697, Louis signed the Treaty
of Ryswick, which
established the sans quo ante
bellum (the existing state before
the war).
- 1789
- By 1789, the Third Estate included
98% of the French population. On
August 26, 1789, the National
Assembly adopted the Declaration
of the Rights of Man and Citizen,
proclaim ing to the world "Liberty,
Equality, Frater nity, or Death," the
Constituent Assembly drafted
France's first written constitution,
known as the Constitution of 1791.
- 1793
- On January 21, 1793,
Louis XVI was executed
on the guillotine.
- 1805
- 1813
- In October 1813, the
combined forces of Europe
defeated Napoleon's new
army at the Battle of
Leipzig, sometimes called
the "Battle of the Nations."
- In October 21, 1805, the British
navy destroved a com French
and Spanish fleet at the famous
Battle of Trafalgar
- In 1679, Louis issued
a series of over 125
documents limiting
the liberties of the
Huguenots.
- In 1608, Samuel de
Champlain, known as "the
Father of New France,"
founded Quebec, the first
per manent French colony
in America.