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France is in debt, King Louis XVI tries to tax the Second Estate but the nobles refuse to pay
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King Louis XVI calls for the Estates General to meet the following spring after the rough winter
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The Third Estate proclaims themselves the National Assembly; National Assembly swears the Tennis Oath
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BastilleThe Storming of the Bastille
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National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man of the Citizen
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Estates General(Spring) First time the Estates General meets in about 175 years
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The French Revolution BeginsThe French Revolution begins
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the king fleeing to ParisKing Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette flee Paris in disguises, but are caught
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Austria and Prussia issuse a declaration warning against harming the French monarchs and hint that any such action would provoke war
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National Convention decalares that France will be a republic and not a constitutional monarchy
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Louis is deadKing Louis XVI executed by guillotine
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Reign of TerrorThe Reign of Terror is unleased by the Committee of Public Safety; led by Maximilien Robespierre.
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Robespierre is deadRobespierre and his followers are executed; The Reign of Terror Ends
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Napoleon faced off against a mob of royalists trying to regain power in Paris
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National Convention writes a more restrictive constitution; only male property owners could vote
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Celebrating the endThe French Revolution Ends
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NapoleonNapoleon takes control of the French government
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Napoleon sells the Louisiana Territory in the North America to the United States
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France after a plebiscite
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Napoleon invades Spain and Portugal; the king of Spain goes to prison and the king of Portugal flees to Brazil
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Napoleon defeated in Lepizeg
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Allies enter Paris in triump and force Napoleon to surrender and is exiled to Elba
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Allied forces defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo
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napoleon exiles to St. HelenaNapoleon exiles to St. Helena in the South Atlantic
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Napoleon dies in exile
