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after bad harvests and costly wars, King Louis XVI is forced to convene the estates general assembly (meeting of representatives of the Three Estates) in order to raise taxes
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Revolutionary Government led by the third estate
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resolves not to disband until it has written a constitution
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Bastille was stormed and taken by a Paris mob
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Peasants attack nobles manors
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Nobles in National Assembly renounce feudal rights; Jacob Club formed.
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Assembly issues Deceleration of the Rights of Man
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King Louis brought from Versailles to Tuileries palace in Paris
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King flees to Austria, is caught at Varennes
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Constitutional government by elected officials
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Paris mobs storms royal palace; Legislative Assembly government Collapse. Minister of Justice Danton kills thousands of presumed traitors.
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National Convention Abolishes monarchy and declares France a republic.
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Elected by universal male suffrage to rewrite constitution
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Revolutionary Calendar introduced with new day and month names
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National Convention Condemns and executes the king
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Counter Revolutionary revolt in the vendee regions begins
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"Reign of Terror" by committee of Public safety begins
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Price controls put into place by the government dechristianization administrative reform
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Rose Pierre is executed in the month of thermidor and the reign of terror ends
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New constitution is adopted,forming a new government called directory
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New constitution has two houses council of ancients and council of 500
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Royalists are bansished from being apart of directory
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Napoleon abolishes the directory government and changing it to a consulate government French Revolution ends
