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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are married and shortly after become the King and Queen of France
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In an effort to solve France's finacial problems, Louis XVI called the Estates-General, which had not met in over 100 years.
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After being locked out of their meeting room, the Third Estate met in a tennis court and plegded not to leave until they had drafted a new constitution for France.
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In an effort to aquire gunpowder to defend themselves, Parisians storm the Bastille, a prison in Paris.
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A large group of women, angry over the rising price of bread, organized a march on Versailles which resulted in the effective imprisonment of Louis and Marie in Paris.
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Robespierre instituted the Reign of Terror in order to defeat the internal enemies of the Revolution.
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After the Festival of the Supreme Being, Robespierre is arrested and executed, ending the Reign of Terror.
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Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French, in an effort to re-establish a hereditary monarchy in France
