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Louis XIV spends $100 million to build palace at Versaillers.
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Louis XIV dies leaving France in bedt.
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Enlightenment or Age of Reason reaches its height.
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Louis XVI marries Austrian Marie Antoinette.
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Louis XV dies also leaving France in debt from wars fought during his reign. Louis XVI takes over.
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Declaration of Independance is written and the colonists win American Revolution in 1781
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Declaration of Rights of Man written guarunteeing freedoms of equality, press, religion & justice.
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The Third Estate declared themselves the National Assembly and made the Tennis Court Oath.
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Peasants mad about new tax plan; Louis calls first meeting of Estates-General in 175 years.
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Fearing Louis would use force to dismiss the National Assembly, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille; tore it down. The great fear starts shortly after.
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Royal family attemps to escape but are caught and arrested.
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Guillotine is introduced.
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King Louis is executed by guillotine.
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Jean-Paul Marat, member of radical political group Jacobins, is stabbed in bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
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Jacobin leader Maximillien Robespierre is slowly gaining power- wants to erase France's past; becomes leader of Committee of Public Safety and rules France for next year like a dictator- His rule was known as the Reign of Terror.
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Marie Antoinette is executed by guillotine.
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Robespierre is executed by guillotine ending radical phase of revolution.
