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Louis XVI summons Estates-General for its first meeting in 175 years. He called it because of the economy.
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National Assembly members take Tennis Court Oath, pledging to create new constitution.
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Mob of Parisian citizens storms Bastille prison and confiscates weapons from the Bastille. This is France's 4th of July
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The time when the common folk thought that the nobles were out to get them, so they armed themselves by storming the Bastille.
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This document said that men are born and remain free and equal in rights. It also guaranteed freedom of speech, equal justice, and freedom of religion.
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Women marched because of the soaring bread prices, they stormed the palace, killed the gaurds, and captured the king, after he promised them bread then went back on his word.
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Luois and Marie attempt to flee France, but are cought, and eventually executed.
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France’s government became a Limited Constitutional Monarchy, where King’s held very little power. It also created the Legislative Assembly which had the power to create laws. Later it would declare France a Republic on the 22nd.
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The duke of Brunswick issued this stating that nobody should harm the royal family or they would destory Paris.
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The National Convention took office in Sept. 1792 and quickly abolished the monarchy and declared France a Republic where every male citizen could vote, no women though.
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Robespierre led the Committee of Public Safety in 1793 and ruled France for the next year as a dictator, this time came to known as the Reign of Terror.
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Was put in favor of the National Convention and was a five man government in which they all rule the country.
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He ousted the Directory by military means, and took control of France as thier leader.
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Napoleon made a deal with Pope Pius VII that made the Catholic Church and majority Church in France, and said that they would stay out of each others buisness.
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Napoleon Bonaparte and Thomas Jefferson made a deal giving the U.S about 828,000 miles of land.
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This code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights.
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He declares that he is the new emperor of France.
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Battle fought by French and British with Spanish naval fleets. The British's royal navy won the battle.
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This was a trade embargo against the British whom they were fighting.
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Was a war between France and the combined forces of Spain, Portugal, and the U.K.
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THe French got kicked out of Russia, and couldn't win agianst them,
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After the coilition captured Paris, in thier war of liberation, they through Napoleon off the throne and forced him to Elba.
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A battle in which the French lost to the British and a host of other countries. This lead to the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Napoleon's exile to St. Helena, and relative peace in Europe.
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Napoleon abdicated on June 22nd 1815, tried to go to the U.S. but was foiled and then sent to St. Helena with only a few people.
