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A meeting of the estates gereral to approve a new tax was held at Versailles for the first in 175 years.
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Vote to establish the National Assembly proclaiming the end of absolute monarchy, beginning of representitive government.
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An angry mob stormed the Bastille searching for gunpowder and arms.
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Noblemen made speeches expressing ideas of liberty and equality. The Old Regime was dead the next morning.
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Monarchy was abolished and France was declared a republic. Adult male citizens are given the right to vote and hold office.
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Men and women mobbed the palace where the royal family was staying. Massacred the royal guards and imprisoned Marie Antoinette, Louis, and their children.
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Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and was beheaded by the guillotine.
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Maximillien Robespierre is beheaded, thus ending The Reign of Terror.
