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picture linkKing 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 a rough winter.
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National Assemnly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man of the Citizen.
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The French Revolution begins.
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The storming of Bastille
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First time the Estates General meets in approximately 175 years.
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The Third Estate proclaims themselves the Mational Assembly; National Assembly swears the Tennis Court Oath.
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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 antoinette and her children in prison.
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National Con ventoin declares that France will be a repunlic and not a constitutional monarchy
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pictureKing Louis XVI executed by guillitine
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The Riegn of Terror is unleashed by the Committee of Public Safety; led bu Maximilien Robespierre.
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Robespierre and his supporters are executed;The Reign of Terror Ends.
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Napolean faced off against a mob of royalists trying to regain power in Paris.
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pictureNational Convention writes a more restrictive constituton; only male property owners can vote
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The French Revolution ends
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Napolean takes control of the French Government
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Napoleon sells the Louisiana Territory in North America to the Unitied States
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pictureNapoleon crowns himself emperor of France after a plebicite
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Saint Domingue declares independence from France, names their new nation Haiti
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pictureNapoleaon invades Spain and Portugal; the king of Spain goes to prison and the king of Portugul flees to Brazil
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pictureNapoleal attems to take over Russia, is forced to leave Moscow
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Napoleon attemts to invade and takeover Russia
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pictureNapolean defeated in Leipzig
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Allies enter Paris in triumph and force Napolean to surrender and is exiled to Elba.
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pictureNapolean dies in exile
