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Women's March on Versailles, 5 October 1789
Women's March on Versailles (5-6 October 1789). Outraged by high bread prices and the anti-revolutionary conduct of royal soldiers, a crowd of 7,000 women descended on the palace of Versailles. The king accompanied them back to Paris the...

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Execution of Murat by Firing Squad, October 1815
Execution of Joachim Murat, former French marshal and King of Naples, by firing squad, 13 October 1815. Image from the book Patria Esercito Re by Leopoldo Pullè, 1908.

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Revolt in Cairo, October 1798
The revolt in Cairo against French occupation, 21 October 1798. Painting by Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, 1810.
Palace of Versailles.

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Marie Antoinette Being Taken to Her Execution, 16 October 1793
Marie Antoinette being taken from the prison of the Conciergerie to the guillotine on 16 October 1793. She appears in the center wearing a white dress, contrasted with the dark clothed figures around her. Painting by William Hamilton, 1794...

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National Assembly, 5 October 1789
Women's March on Versailles, 5 October 1789. The National Assembly's president Jean-Joseph Mounier presides over a chatoic hall, with women marchers mingling with Assembly deputies. A man, probably Stanislas Maillard, holds a sign asking...

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Execution of 9 Émigrés, October 1793
The execution of 9 emigres in October 1793, during the Reign of Terror. Illustration by an unknown artist from the book La Guillotine en 1793 by H. Fleischmann, 1908.

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Napoleon with the II Corps of the Grande Armée, 12 October 1805
Emperor Napoleon I orders the II Corps of the Grande Armée into action at Augsburg on 12 October 1805, during the Ulm Campaign.
Painting by Pierre-Claude Gautherot, 1808.

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Capitulation at Ulm, 20 October 1805
French Emperor Napoleon I (r.1804-1815) accepts the surrender of an Austrian army under General Mack on 20 October 1805, after the Ulm Campaign. Oil on canvas painting by René Théodore Berthon, c. 1805-1810.
Palace of Versailles.

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Battle of Jena, 14 October 1806
During the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt (14 October 1806), Napoleon reprimands a grenadier of his Imperial Guard who shouted for an attack. Oil on canvas painting by Horace Vernet, 1836.
Palace of Versailles.

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Battle of Leipzig, 16 October 1813
Actions of the first day of the Battle of Leipzig, 16 October 1813. Map by Wikipedia user Andrei nacu, 2007.