Tag: Versailles

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15th October 1783: Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier conducts the first manned hot air balloon flight

15th October 2024
Tagged as: Balloon, France, Hot Air Balloon, Invention, Louis XVI, Montgolfier, Science, Versailles

The balloon was secured to the ground to limit its altitude and range, but it successfully lifted de Rozier to a height of approximately 25 metres.

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5th October 1789: The October Days begin when a crowd of Parisian women march to the Palace of Versailles to demand food

5th October 2024
Tagged as: Bread, Food, France, French Revolution, Louis XVI, October Days, Paris, Revolution, Versailles

The demonstrators soon surrounded the palace and demanded an audience with the king, who met with a small delegation of women, but tensions escalated as the palace was broken into and some royal guards were beaten or even killed by the mob.

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18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins

18th January 2023
Tagged as: Britain, Clemenceau, First World War, France, Lloyd George, Peace Conference, Peace Treaty, Treaty, Treaty of Neuilly, Treaty of Versailles, USA, Versailles, Woodrow Wilson

The Paris Peace Conference convened to establish the terms of the peace after the First World War.

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14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille in Paris

14th July 2022
Tagged as: France, French Revolution, Louis XVI, Revolution, Versailles

The morning of the 14^th July 1789 saw the beginning of the French Revolution when Parisian revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, a large fortress, prison and ammunition store that symbolised everything that was wrong with the monarchy.

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28th June 1914 and 1919: The trigger and the definitive end of the First World War

28th June 2022
Tagged as: Assassination, Austria-Hungary, Bosnia, Britain, First World War, France, Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip, Germany, Peace Treaty, Sarajevo, Serbia, Treaty of Versailles, Versailles, WW1

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip in 1914 had a direct effect on the outbreak of war, while the Treaty of Versailles was signed on exactly the same date five years later in 1919.

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8th January 1918: Woodrow Wilson announces the Fourteen Points

8th January 2022
Tagged as: Britain, First World War, Fourteen Points, France, Germany, Paris, Treaty, USA, Versailles, Wilson

On the 8^th January 1918, United States President Woodrow Wilson made a speech to Congress in which he outlined his principles for world peace, known as the Fourteen Points.