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King Luis XVI summond a meeting of the Estates General for the first time since 1614. The estates General was when a representative from each of the three estates came together and voted on an issue.
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Passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights.
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The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
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The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that subordinated the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government.
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King Luis XVI was executed by means of the guillotine after his ecape attempt.
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Also called "The Terror", The Reign of Terror was a period of time during the french revolution where everyone who siad a bad word about or wasn't even enthusiastic about the revolution were executed. Hudreds of thousands of people.
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Maximillion Robespierre was eaten by the monster he created. He was not a fan of all the exicutions and therefore was a threat to the revolution, so he was executed.
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Administered by a collective leadership of five directors, it operated following the Committee of Public Safety and preceding the Consulate. It lasted from 2 November 1795 until 10 November 1799, a period commonly known as the "Directory era." It was overthrown by Napoleon.
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The French sold the Luisiana Territory to the United States in 1803 for 50 million francs. Mostly to pay for the many wars they were in.
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After defeating Ausrtria and Egypt. Napolian traveled back to France to save his crumbling country. He intituted a new set of laws, and basically created themodern empire.
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The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815.
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. After his final defeat at Waterloo he was Exiled.
