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France is in debt, King Louis VVI tries to tax the Second Estate but the nobles refuse to pay.
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King Louis VXI calls for the Estates General to meet the following spring after a rough winter.
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The French Revolution begins
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First time the Estates General meets in approximately 175 years.
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The Third Estate proclaims themselves the National Assembly; National Assembly swears the Tennis Court Oath
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The Storming of the Bastille. When an angry mob of peasants storm the prison to get guns. the ripped it apart brick by brick
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Mob storms the Tuileries Palace and Palace and throws Marie Anoinette and her children in prison
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King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette flee Paris in disguises, but are caught.
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Austria and Prussia issue a declaration warning against harming the French monarchs and hint that any such action would provoke war.
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Mob storms the Tuileries Palace and throws Marie Antionette and her childron in prison.
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national Convention declares that France will be a republic and not a constitutional monarchy.
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King Louis XVI executed by guillotine
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The Reign of Terror is unleashed by the Committee of Public Safety; led by Maximilien Robespierre.
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Robespierre and his upporters and 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 owneres could vote.
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The French Revolution Ends
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Napoleon takes control of the French governmant
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Napoleon sells the Louisiana Territory in North America to the United States.
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France after a plebiscite.
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Saint domingue (Hispanola) declares independence from France, names their new nation Haiti
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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 was defeated in Leipzig 1813
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Allies enter Paris in triumph and force Napoleon to surrender and is exciled to Elba
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Napoleon exciles to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic
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Congress of Vienna meets to redraw the map of Europe
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Napoleon dies in excile
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France recognized Louis XVIII, brother of executed Louis XVI. Napoleon manages to come back to France, louis XVIII flees to BElgium in fear. Napoleon arrives in Paris on March 20 to cheering crowds, and the Hundred Days begin.
