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Timeline This is a timeline of the luxurious life time and career of Marie Antoinette. The eight bolded and enlarged events are significant as they greatly altered her life, death and legacy. Press to Play: media type="file" key="Marie Antoinette Soundtrack - 07 - Pulling Our Weight.mp3" align="center" width="240" height="20"

**Early Y ﻿ ears: 1755-1770 ** **1755** Maria Antonia receives a typical education for a young lady, focusing more on moral principles and religion than academic subjects, she lives a carefree life in the relaxed Austrian Court. An arranged marriage is agreed on between France’s Louis XV’s grandson and Maria Antonia to preserve their alliance. Maria Antonia's father, the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, dies. April 21: Maria Antonia is sent by her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa, to France to marry Louis-Auguste, she is 14 years-old. ** ﻿ Married to France: 1770-1780 ** **1770** Marie Antoinette is blamed for the royal couples childlessness. Some rumour-mongers suggest having the marriage annulled and sending the Queen back to Austria. Mercy-Argenteau, Austrian Ambassador to the Court of Versailles, reports to Maria Theresa that Marie Antoinette has done nothing to improve Austria’s relationship with France. May 10: King Louis XV dies of smallpox. Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI live separate lives: his filled with hunting, eating, and introspection, hers with dancing, nightlife, gambling, and fashion. Marie Antoinette gives birth to their first child, Marie Thérèse Charlotte. November 29: Maria Therese the Empress of Austria, Marie Antoinette’s mother, dies. ** ﻿ Queen and Mother: 1780-1786 ** **1780** Marie Antoinette and her children often reside at Petit Trianon, Versailles’ “nature retreat,” they occasionally invite the King. Marie Antoinette’s son Louis Joseph is born in 1781 With the unstoppable supply of pamphlets which portray the Queen as immoral, ignorant, extravagant and adulterous, the public hatred of Marie Antoinette is increasing dramatically. Marie Antoinette’s son Louis Charles is born. Marie Antoinette’s daughter Sophie Béatrix is born. Sophie Béatrix dies shortly before her first birthday, she was Marie Antoinette's youngest daughter **Financial F ﻿ ailings: 1787-1788 ** **1788** August: King Louis XVI declares that to discuss France’s financial crisis, the Estates-General will meet in May 1789. This was a political body representing the three orders: Clergy, Nobles and Commoners had not been assembled since 1614.  ﻿ Revolution Enemies: 1791-1793 1789  October: Versailles is attacked by an angry mob. 1791: June: The Royal family attempts an escape from Paris to Montmedy on the eastern frontier, unfortunately the King is recognised in the town of Varennes and they are captured. 1792  December 11: Trial of Louis XVI for treason begins. 1793  January 14-17: The King is convicted of treason and then condemned to death. July 3: Louis Charles the Dauphin of France and Marie Antoinette's remaining son, is taken away from her and placed under the instruction of a simple and sadistic shoemaker for his re-education. August 2: Marie Antoinette is taken from her daughter Marie Therese and her sister-in-law, Madame Elisabeth, and transferred to the Conciergerie Prison. **1793** October 14-15: Marie Antoinette is placed on trial. Her charges include treason against France and sexually abusing her son, the Dauphin of France. Marie Antoinette is found guilty on all counts and condemned to death by nine male judges and an all-male jury. **Aftermath: 1794-1799 ** **1795** June 8: Louis Charles, heir to the throne, dies at the age of 10, brutalized and alone and a prisoner in the Temple. He had been declared King Louis XVII by his uncle, the comte de Provence, upon the death of his father, Louis XVI, but the monarchy had already been abolished. December 18: Marie-Therese is exchanged for a French Revolutionary, freed and sent to Vienna, Austria.
 * November 15: Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna is the last daughter and fifteenth child born to Empress Maria Thérèse of Austria. **
 * 1760**
 * 1763**
 * 1765**
 * 1770**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">May 16: Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste are married at Versailles. **
 * 1771**
 * 1772**
 * 1774**
 * 1775**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">June 11: 20-year old Louis-Auguste is crowned King Louis XVI at the cathedral in Rheims, Marie Antoinette becomes Queen Marie Antoinette of France. **
 * 1776**
 * 1777**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">August 30: Marie Antoinette writes to her mother that she and Louis have consummated their marriage. **
 * 1778**
 * 1780**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Marie Antoinette is rumoured to have a romantic relationship with the Swedish diplomat and French army officer, Count Axel von Fersen, around this time. **
 * 1781**
 * 1783**
 * 1785**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Diamond Necklace Affair occurs Marie Antoinette's, further diminishing her reputation. **
 * 1786**
 * 1787**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">January 21: Louis XVI is taken to the guillotine and executed. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">October 16: Marie Antoinette is executed by guillotine at the age 37. **

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