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linkFance 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 Estates General to meet the following spring after a rough winter.
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LinkThe French Revolution Begins
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The 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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King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette flee Paris in disguises, but are caught.
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LinkAustria and Prussia issue a declaration warning against harming the French monarchs and hint that any such action would provoke war.
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LinkMob storms the Tuileries Palace and throws Marie Antoinette and her children in prison.
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King Louis XVI executed by guillotine.
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LinkThe Reign of Terror is unleashed by the Committee of Public Safety; led by Maximilien Robespierre.
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Robespierre and his supporters are executed; The Reign of Terror Ends.
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LinkNapoleon faced off against a mob of royalists trying to regain power in Paris.
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LinkMational Convention writes a more restrictive constitution; only male property owners could vote.
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French Revolution Ends
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LinkNapoleon takes control of the French govornment
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LinkNapoleon 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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Saintn Domingue declares independence form France, names their new nation Haiti.
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LinkNapoleon invades Spain and Portugal; the king of spain goes to prison and the king of Portugal flees to Brazil.
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LinkNapoleon attempts to invade and take over Russia, is forced to leave Moscow.
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Napoleon attempts to invade and takeover Russia.
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LinkNapoleon defeated in Leipzig
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Napoleon exiles to Saint Helena in the South Pacific
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Congress of Vienna meets to redraw the map of Europe.
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LinkNapoleon dies in exile
