Louis XIV of France inaugurates the Palace of Versailles.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by National Assembly at Palace of Versailles.

French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.

French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October

Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles ( France ) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans.