FRENCH REVOLUTION

  • LUIS XVI TAKES THE THRONE

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    France enters American war; at war with Britain.
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    Preparation of Cahiers de Doléances (lists of grievances) and elections to the Estates General.
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    King orders clergy and nobility to join Third Estate.
  • Fall of the Bastille.

    The bastille has been taken by the third state
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    National Assembly decrees the abolition of feudalism, equality of taxation and the sale of offices.
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    National Assembly approves the text of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
  • Louis XVI executed.

  • Execution of Marie Antoinette.